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He's dismantling our government (Original Post)
cilla4progress
Jan 2019
OP
No foreign power could do us half this much harm. Why have a great military if we'll allow potus to
lindysalsagal
Jan 2019
#2
Yes he is, with help from inside. I understand Putin, sort of, but my fellow Americans? nt
Hekate
Jan 2019
#3
Absolutely right. Blaming Putin for this is to ignore the history of the Republican Party
enough
Jan 2019
#14
Not singlehandedly. He's been doing the Republicans' bidding while thinking he's
enough
Jan 2019
#15
dem4decades
(11,304 posts)1. He couldn't do it without his base and the Republicans.
lindysalsagal
(20,733 posts)2. No foreign power could do us half this much harm. Why have a great military if we'll allow potus to
ruin us from the inside?
triron
(22,020 posts)11. Putin's doing. POTUS is accomplice.
Hekate
(90,824 posts)3. Yes he is, with help from inside. I understand Putin, sort of, but my fellow Americans? nt
Doodley
(9,129 posts)4. Can it be stopped?
triron
(22,020 posts)12. Of course, but will it?
area51
(11,921 posts)5. Don't forget McConnell. n/t
procon
(15,805 posts)6. Maybe that was the plan all along.
Republicans hate our government. They been trying for years to "drown it in a bathtub", or "deconstruct the administrative state", and for that they only needed to pick a president "with enough working digits to handle a pen".
It's happening right before our eyes.
Initech
(100,104 posts)10. 40 years of Reagan's Ayn Rand anti-government horseshit got us here.
Fuck both of them.
enough
(13,262 posts)14. Absolutely right. Blaming Putin for this is to ignore the history of the Republican Party
for the past several decades. Their plan is unfolding perfectly at the moment.
world wide wally
(21,755 posts)7. Trump and his sidekick, Turtleboy
Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)8. Bannon told us what they were going to do.
Shutter government, break all the administrative structure.
All based on his dystopian vision of the future.
Miller provided the gratuitous cruelty.
Grasswire2
(13,571 posts)9. This is the book that inspired Bannon.
SoCalDem
(103,856 posts)13. No surprise here.. He said he would
and the GOP toadies in congress are helping him
watch PBS tomorrow....it's about Mussolini..check your local schedule
enough
(13,262 posts)15. Not singlehandedly. He's been doing the Republicans' bidding while thinking he's
in charge.