Such a great article! “White supremacy is....incompatible with democracy.” It explains so much of the GOP’s actions. And I think Obama’s election really brought it to a head. To Republicans this was the final straw; it was intolerable.
The companion to it is the “howling ignorance”. I just read about Justice David Souter, something he said, that the increasing ignorance of civics and how the government works will be the death of our democracy.
If only one political party is for the constitution, how can America survive?
"We need, at the minimum, real structural change, and real consequences for all those who have attacked the constitution, not just Trump." Dems need to come up and push const amendments to do away with money in politics and end unfettered presidential pardon power. Dems themselves need structural change to be able to meet this moment and push structural change for the nation. Why its so frustrating to see them pushing out David Hogg who is working towards that in a safe way, not tryin to lose seat but reinvigorate safe blue ones. When you have 5 reps die in office in the last 6 years and Bob Menedez in the senate forever despite everyone knowing he was corrrupt something needs to change
Trump has one superpoweOr that has gotten MAGA inline. He’s a media whore and a world-class manipulator. And every conman that has ever existed is also a manipulator. That’s what comes with being a celebrity narcissist. A man who was a business failure till they were looking for a camera-ready host for the Apprentice. And lo and behold, they found Trump, who had no future in the business world or real estate. No other actual successful business person would have touched that job. They were too busy making a name for themselves as an actual successful business person. So now we have another actor in the Whitehouse because of his power to manipulate gullible people more than any person in government ever has.
Such a great article! “White supremacy is....incompatible with democracy.” It explains so much of the GOP’s actions. And I think Obama’s election really brought it to a head. To Republicans this was the final straw; it was intolerable.
The companion to it is the “howling ignorance”. I just read about Justice David Souter, something he said, that the increasing ignorance of civics and how the government works will be the death of our democracy.
If only one political party is for the constitution, how can America survive?
"We need, at the minimum, real structural change, and real consequences for all those who have attacked the constitution, not just Trump." Dems need to come up and push const amendments to do away with money in politics and end unfettered presidential pardon power. Dems themselves need structural change to be able to meet this moment and push structural change for the nation. Why its so frustrating to see them pushing out David Hogg who is working towards that in a safe way, not tryin to lose seat but reinvigorate safe blue ones. When you have 5 reps die in office in the last 6 years and Bob Menedez in the senate forever despite everyone knowing he was corrrupt something needs to change
Trump has one superpoweOr that has gotten MAGA inline. He’s a media whore and a world-class manipulator. And every conman that has ever existed is also a manipulator. That’s what comes with being a celebrity narcissist. A man who was a business failure till they were looking for a camera-ready host for the Apprentice. And lo and behold, they found Trump, who had no future in the business world or real estate. No other actual successful business person would have touched that job. They were too busy making a name for themselves as an actual successful business person. So now we have another actor in the Whitehouse because of his power to manipulate gullible people more than any person in government ever has.
The GOP switch to Russian talking points seems connected to the lack of principle understanding of what is good for America.