Dan Coats is a good pick for the driveling propaganda piece in the NYT

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13. THIS and particularly

this -

It's clear this insider group the author of the propaganda piece cites is working to advantage their conservative wish list. That's not patriotism, it's rank partisanship which seeks to obscure WH malfeasance and criminal behavior. They're propping up Trump like a puppet in a bizarre type of piggyback onto Putin's coup

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You have 2 competing agendas - Putin's, which wants the U.S. to descend into chaos and essentially be removed from the international scene, and (as I will keep reminding folks via this video), Grover Norquist's -

They have a checklist they are going through, come hell or high water, that Norquist very clearly articulated, which included the tax cuts for the rich (and they have a 2nd round on their docket), budgets that essentially up-end the New Deal, rule after rule after rule related to the environment, worker safety, and union activity, are being systematically rolled back, immigrants are being rounded up and thrown out, and the Kavanaugh installation is a key one that wasn't prognosticated by Norquist, and will help to solidify GOP power by implementation of draconian laws that are designed to suppress women, minorities, unions, and non-European immigrants... and on and on.