5th January 2018, 8:58 PM
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/1/...nst-Steele
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/1/...al-misstep
I wonder, are there any members left in the Republican Party who aren't willing to become supporters of treason? Because it isn't much if any of an exaggeration to say that that is exactly what Paul Ryan, Lindsey Graham, and Chuck Grassley are doing here. These are people who once claimed to have some kind of respectability, unlike Trump's more ardent supporters in the Tea Party and such, but Ryan clearly has abandoned that in favor of sucking up to Trump, and Graham and Grassley look like they want to join him.
It's a tragedy really, but all we can hope for as Americans is that these people fail and our democracy does not get subverted by Trumpist autocracy...
Of course, the poll numbers continue looking very very good for that, but we still need to get to November to see that. Will we get to November smoothly? Will they start a war (with North Korea, Iran, or someone else)? Or worse? We will have to see... but hopefully there are enough people in this administration who realize how ruinously terrible either of those wars would be to keep them from happening no matter what the idiot in charge declares. As those stories up top suggest though, that may be asking too much. Though I think even most of those people realize how incredibly bad an idea a war with North Korea would be, people like Graham have wanted war with Iran for decades, and I'm sure he'd love to take the chance to finally do that even if it ended up being another debacle.
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/1/...al-misstep
I wonder, are there any members left in the Republican Party who aren't willing to become supporters of treason? Because it isn't much if any of an exaggeration to say that that is exactly what Paul Ryan, Lindsey Graham, and Chuck Grassley are doing here. These are people who once claimed to have some kind of respectability, unlike Trump's more ardent supporters in the Tea Party and such, but Ryan clearly has abandoned that in favor of sucking up to Trump, and Graham and Grassley look like they want to join him.
It's a tragedy really, but all we can hope for as Americans is that these people fail and our democracy does not get subverted by Trumpist autocracy...
Of course, the poll numbers continue looking very very good for that, but we still need to get to November to see that. Will we get to November smoothly? Will they start a war (with North Korea, Iran, or someone else)? Or worse? We will have to see... but hopefully there are enough people in this administration who realize how ruinously terrible either of those wars would be to keep them from happening no matter what the idiot in charge declares. As those stories up top suggest though, that may be asking too much. Though I think even most of those people realize how incredibly bad an idea a war with North Korea would be, people like Graham have wanted war with Iran for decades, and I'm sure he'd love to take the chance to finally do that even if it ended up being another debacle.