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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKrugman: One entire political party now evidently holds democracy and rule of law in utter contempt.
Twitter thread Paul Krugman posted minutes ago. The words quoted above are in the last tweet:
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I'm not writing much about Mueller/Nunes and all that, because I don't have much to add. But everyone should bear the essentials in mind:
1. We have strong reason to believe that Trump and associates engaged in collusion with a hostile foreign power
1. We have strong reason to believe that Trump and associates engaged in collusion with a hostile foreign power
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2. It's also obvious that Trump and a number of his appointees are using office to enrich themselves, and that this corruption is exposing government operations on many fronts to undue influence from bad actors
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3. And the response of essentially the whole Republican party and its media allies has been to attempt to discredit and purge law enforcement, spinning and repeating insane conspiracy theories in the process
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This is much bigger than a Trump problem. One entire political party, half the political spectrum, now evidently holds democracy and rule of law in utter contempt. I don't know if America as we know it can survive. But if it does: never forget this moment
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Krugman: One entire political party now evidently holds democracy and rule of law in utter contempt. (Original Post)
highplainsdem
Feb 2018
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Voltaire2
(13,109 posts)1. Ironically the Republican Party broke the Republic.
GWC58
(2,678 posts)2. Yep, and it will be the
Democratic Party that puts it back together!
Ohiogal
(32,036 posts)3. The "party of law and order"
What a joke. They thumb their noses at it and at all of us.
Solly Mack
(90,779 posts)4. Now? For years.
JHB
(37,161 posts)5. I know. Glad hes not mincing words, but...
...it has been on this precise trajectory for a quarter century (with roots even farther back).
All it has done is pick up steam.
Solly Mack
(90,779 posts)7. It has, so true.
Nailed it.
They are in contempt of half the country, clouded by their hate, unwilling to recognize the hole they've fallen into.
Solly Mack
(90,779 posts)8. They think they'll get away with it.