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NRaleighLiberal

(59,922 posts)
Sat Aug 18, 2018, 06:00 PM Aug 2018

Extremely spot on and Important from NYT/Krugman "The Slippery Slope of Complicity"

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/18/opinion/the-slippery-slope-of-complicity.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region&region=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region

When was the last time centrist talking heads declared, “Donald Trump just became president” (because he bombed someone, or something like that)? I think it’s been more than a year. At this point, you have to be a truly fanatical practitioner of bothsidesism not to see that Trump is every bit as terrible a human being, and every bit as much a menace to the republic, as some of us warned when all the cool kids were busy snarking about Clinton’s emails.

The real news of the past few weeks isn’t that Trump is a wannabe Mussolini who can’t even make the trains run on time. It’s the absence of any meaningful pushback from Congressional Republicans. Indeed, not only are they acquiescing in Trump’s corruption, his incitements to violence, and his abuse of power, up to and including using the power of office to punish critics, they’re increasingly vocal in cheering him on.

Make no mistake: if Republicans hold both houses of Congress this November, Trump will go full authoritarian, abusing institutions like the I.R.S., trying to jail opponents and journalists on, er, trumped-up charges, and more — and he’ll do it with full support from his party.

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(end of the article - and all bolding is mine)

Even now, I don’t think most political commentators have grasped how deep the rot goes. I don’t think they understand, or at any rate admit to themselves, that democracy really could die just a few months from now.

And if it doesn’t, if Republicans lose Congress and Trump leaves office on or before January 2021, the same people who kept declaring that Trump just became president will try to go back to pretending that Republican politicians are serious, honorable people who care about policy. But they aren’t.

So remember this moment. We’re seeing, in real time, what the GOP is really made of.
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Extremely spot on and Important from NYT/Krugman "The Slippery Slope of Complicity" (Original Post) NRaleighLiberal Aug 2018 OP
Seeing what the GOP is really made of... Achilleaze Aug 2018 #1
K & R Duppers Aug 2018 #2
K&R alwaysinasnit Aug 2018 #3
If it's not stopped, we are seeing how Hitler came to power. Honeycombe8 Aug 2018 #4
Great article. dalton99a Aug 2018 #5
Kick! JohnnyRingo Aug 2018 #6
"Even now, I don't think most political commentators have grasped how deep the rot goes." CrispyQ Aug 2018 #7

Honeycombe8

(37,648 posts)
4. If it's not stopped, we are seeing how Hitler came to power.
Sat Aug 18, 2018, 07:58 PM
Aug 2018

I'm not being dramatic. I really do think...so this is how it happened.The perfect storm, and complicity all around, complete with scapegoats, greed, white supremacy, hate except for love of self.

So this is how it happened. Step by step. Inch by inch. Lie by lie. The water rises, while decent people get drowned out.

Once his party acquiesced in the inhumane treatment of children, they became lost souls. No longer American or democratic or decent human beings. They crossed a line with that one.

CrispyQ

(36,112 posts)
7. "Even now, I don't think most political commentators have grasped how deep the rot goes."
Sun Aug 19, 2018, 03:08 PM
Aug 2018

Too many believe "It Can't Happen Here" even as it's happening here. We gain control of at least one chamber in November or it's over. Even then, I don't think most democratic politicians have grasped how deep the rot goes either.

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