The Profound Hypocrisy of the Republicans Depicted by Paul Krugman in Five Brief Tweets
By AndySchmookler at the Daily Kos
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/1/28/1736637/-The-Profound-Hypocrisy-of-the-Republicans-Depicted-by-Paul-Krugman-in-Five-Brief-Tweets
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One key lesson of 2017 was that everything liberals have said about right-wing hypocrisy was true -- in fact understated 1/
The religious right claimed to care about moral values, but is fine with a guy who cheats on his third wife with a porn star; it was never about morality, it was about patriarchal privilege 2/
The flag-waving super-patriotic right is fine with people who colluded with Russia, and in fact is eager to help in the coverup, because it was never about patriotism, just about power 3/
The economic right is fine with policies that actively discriminate against clean energy in favor of coal, because it was never about free markets, it was about rewarding special interests 4/
And of course the law-and-order right is fine with demonizing and trying to destroy the careers of dedicated law enforcement officials if the pursuit of justice happens to threaten Republicans 5/
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Exactly! Spot on. 
For hundreds of years, coal mining was the gold standard of crappy, dangerous, life-shortening jobs. Manifestos, movies, DH Lawrence novels, songs, the entire culture tells us how terrible this job is. Along comes Barack Obama with a plan to shut the book on coal and suddenly coal mining is a golden-glow American lifestyle.
WTF?? 
