In 2016, the GOP was actually considering being less racist… But then Trump shows up, and rallies the racists to stomp that idea down.
I know, I know, suck it buttercup we have to work with the system we have.
We are constrained by archaic, deeply undemocratic systems and a far right, reactionary party benefits by never being held accountable by its citizens, institutions and media. Instead the minority party is treated as legitimate with policies and ideas that appeal to the “working class.” (LOL, I mean, fucking Christ, list one, I dare anyone to name just one piece of legislation the GOP passed when they held all branches of government that benefited the working class. Just one. But hey far right nut jobs from the Federalist society masquerading as judges are gonna bring those jobs back to Ohio, amirite?)
National Socialist Party - it’s right there in the name!
They also “considered” in 2008 and 2012. Wanna kick the football, Timex?
Excellent job voting in this ignoramus, Bama. Shitty footbaw coach, too.
This is why the phys Ed teacher isn’t the same guy teaching AP physics.
As an Auburn fan, I am beyond embarrassed with Tommy Tuberville. FWIW, the great Lou Holtz also turned out to be a right wing nutjob, so he’s in good company.
I don’t have WSJ access, but I’m sure this is a doozy.
At 85, the libertarian tycoon who spent decades funding conservative causes says he wants a final act building bridges across political divides
Poor Charles!
That’s either
- oops, we blew it all up, and (therefore) lost! or
- oops, we lost the Presidency anyway, let’s be nice together now!
Fuck Charles Koch to Hell.
“Man I really screwed up, forgive me?”
“You’re still doing the things you said were screw ups. You’re doing it right now.”
Who cares what he says? The GOP are poster children for saying things. It’s how they act that matters.
Ted thinks guillotines are the same as boycotts and being mean on Twitter. So… get out the guillotines, I guess?
There is no redemption
It must be nice to be a billionaire and a Libertarian. You can live in your own little bubble fantasy world of maximum PERSONAL AUTONOMY™ with near zero consequences while ignoring those pesky Harm Principles and Non-Aggression Axioms! Win Win.
Especially nice to be an 85-year-old billionaire libertarian, since you can rest assured you will never need to worry about the consequences of what you do.
+1
Fuck him and Adelson too!
You don’t see many Libertarians who aren’t also well off. It’s the fuck you I’ve got mine Party.
Of course the fact that some people literally couldn’t own property and were property for years after their families got their starts just does not compute.
It’s yet another example of projection/inability for empathy. Its been obvious for at least a couple decades now that the GOP doesn’t want to govern, they want to rule. It isn’t enough to just get what they want, their opponents must bow down and say they were wrong and the GOP was right. I believe the hip cliché is “bend the knee”?
Since that’s how they feel, everyone else must feel the same way.
Ezra Klein
I want to put my cards on the table for a moment: I don’t find Donald Trump very interesting in this story. I think what he is is known. He’s a very familiar type historically.
What I am interested in is how quickly the Republican Party has fallen to somebody like Trump. The architecture of your book is about watching people you admired and respected — people who fought alongside you against tyrannies and strongmen for liberal democracy — become functionaries in populist-right, authoritarian parties, and often authoritarians themselves.
Why do you think that happens? What separates the people who end up as dissidents in those moments from those who become functionaries in them or accommodate themselves to them?
Anne Applebaum
I’ve tried to stay away from sweeping vast generalizations. But there is one sentiment, I think, that links the people who were once part of the center-right — the anti-communist movement in Poland or Reaganism or Thatcherism — and who began to change in a different direction over the past decade or so: disappointment.
These are very often people who are disappointed, and they are almost always disappointed with their society. Whether it’s the superficiality of modern democracy, the demographic change that they don’t want or like, the decline in morals and values that they see all around them, or, in the case of Britain, England’s loss of its voice in the world. It’s a feeling of loss or disappointment, and sometimes it’s quite an extreme form of disappointment — a kind of despair. “My society has ended.”
I think anybody who has that view of the contemporary world — that it’s over, it’s finished, my civilization is dead and gone, my society is decayed — leads you almost inevitably into a kind of radicalism. If you have that feeling that it’s over, then why wouldn’t you try to smash everything?