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Krugman's latest

So all the “fake news” was true. A hostile foreign power intervened in the presidential election, hoping to install Donald Trump in the White House. The Trump campaign was aware of this intervention and welcomed it. And once in power, Trump tried to block any inquiry into what happened.Never mind attempts to spin this story as somehow not meeting some definitions of collusion or obstruction of justice. The fact is that the occupant of the White House betrayed his country. And the question everyone is asking is, what will Democrats do about it?
But notice that the question is only about Democrats. Everyone (correctly) takes it as a given that Republicans will do nothing. Why?
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https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/22/opinion/trump-republican-party.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytopinion
 
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Jon said:
Krugman's latest



https://www.nytimes.com/2019/04/22/opinion/trump-republican-party.html?smtyp=cur&smid=tw-nytopinion
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i've been saying this for years.
If the Republican agenda is so unpopular, how does the party win elections? Partly by lying about its policies. But mainly the G.O.P.’s political achievements depend on identity politics — white identity politics. Exploiting racial resentment to capture white working-class voters, while pursuing policies that benefit only the wealthy, has been the core of the party’s political strategy for decades. That’s why, in an increasingly diverse country, Republican support has stayed overwhelmingly white.

In a fundamental sense, Trumpism is the culmination of that strategy. Commentators keep calling Trump a “populist,” but the only way in which he actually caters to working-class white voters is by appealing to their racial animus. He may be successful in doing so partly because it’s the only thing about his political persona that’s sincere: All indications are that he really is a racist.
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92tide said:
i've been saying this for years.
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looks like this piece from Krugman touched a nerve

https://www.thedailybeast.com/trump...says-it-should-beg-on-its-knees-for-his-mercy

In a set of truly unhinged tweets, the president hit out, writing: “Paul Krugman, of the Fake News New York Times, has lost all credibility, as has the Times itself, with his false and highly inaccurate writings on me. He is obsessed with hatred, just as others are obsessed with how stupid he is ... I wonder if the New York Times will apologize to me a second time, as they did after the 2016 Election. But this one will have to be a far bigger & better apology. On this one they will have to get down on their knees & beg for forgiveness—they are truly the Enemy of the People!” The newspaper never apologized to Trump—the president appears to be misrepresenting a short letter to readers in November 2016 thanking them for loyalty and saying it would “rededicate” itself to journalism after Trump’s unexpected victory.
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here is at least one Republican (that no one has ever heard of) is advocating impeachment

good start I guess https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/04/gop-staffer-advocates-trumps-impeachment/587785/
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i'm guessing that the thursday drop of the report for the holiday weekend during a congressional recess didn't work out quite like barr/trump thought it would. impeachment is being talked about quite a lot these last few days.

i'm hoping that there is a slow, steady drip of things like this for the next few weeks.
 
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Not a lawyer, but if you order someone to ignore a Congressional subpoena, isn’t that obstruction of justice?


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Not a lawyer, but if you order someone to ignore a Congressional subpoena, isn’t that obstruction of justice?


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No. So long as Barr is acting under the mantle of authority of office, then his official actions, whether later decided to be wrong or not, can't constitute obstruction...
 
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Why does the House Oversight and Reform Committee not allow legal council for the people being subpoenaed? This seems like a basic right.
 
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As if to further prove the point of this thread Vice/Motherboard goes into the trouble Twitter is having creating methods to block White Nationalists as they also end up blocking Republican Politicians and their supporters

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/...blican-politicians-too?source=techstories.org

can't make this stuff up people. The GOP is so intertwined with White Supremacists in their messaging that modern algorithms can't parse the differences.
 
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As if to further prove the point of this thread Vice/Motherboard goes into the trouble Twitter is having creating methods to block White Nationalists as they also end up blocking Republican Politicians and their supporters

https://motherboard.vice.com/en_us/...blican-politicians-too?source=techstories.org

can't make this stuff up people. The GOP is so intertwined with White Supremacists in their messaging that modern algorithms can't parse the differences.
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won't someone please consider the civility.
 
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"White National" .............. "Woke"

You will not find the traditional definitions of these word in a dictionary with the old traditional book bindings at the local library.
 
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