Paul Krugman Just Accused The Entire Republican Party Of Treason

[babylonsister]

http://occupydemocrats.com/2017/05/12/paul-krugman-just-accused-entire-republican-party-treason/


Paul Krugman Just Accused The Entire Republican Party Of Treason

By Benjamin Locke
Published on May 12, 2017


What has happened to the party of Lincoln, Teddy Roosevelt or even Ronald Reagan?

New York Times columnist Paul Krugman has some answers and they are terribly disturbing for all of us who are patriotic and not among the very richest Americans.

He shows why Republicans, who for generations claimed to be the party of patriots, now refuse to consider an independent investigation of Trump and Russia despite unrefutable evidence that a foreign power is gleefully tampering with our country.

Krugman’s answer is that the 2017 Republicans are more interested in serving the desires of the rich and powerful who give them huge donations and when they lose their positions, hire them for wildly over-compensated jobs – instead of doing what is right for all Americans.

“At this point,” writes Krugman, “almost an entire party appears to have decided that potential treason in the cause of tax cuts for the wealthy is no vice. And that’s barely hyperbole.”

Krugman explains that today Republican party is nothing like the institution it was even during the Watergate crisis in the 1970s. “Then Republican members of Congress were citizens first,”‘ writes Krugman, “partisans second. But today’s G.O.P. is more like a radical, anti-democratic insurgency than a conventional political party.”

Where once Republicans opposed Democrats, adds Krugman, today they are dismissive of the legitimacy of the political opposition.

“So it’s naive to expect Republicans to join forces with Democrats to get to the bottom of the Russia scandal – even if that scandal may strike at the very roots of our national security,” writes Krugman. “Today’s Republicans just don’t cooperate with Democrats, period. They’d rather work with Vladimir Putin….In fact, some of them probably did.”

The Dailykos.com puts it bluntly: “Krugman believes that the Republican leadership’s willingness to turn a blind eye to possible treason reflects that Party’s transformation in recent decades into an organization solely dedicated to the lowering of taxes for its multi-millionaire donor base. Trump’s attempt to destroy the Affordable Care Act (Obamacare) simply provided an irresistible opportunity fo the party to fulfill that prime function.”

“Everything else – including the risk of undermining the integrity of our Constitutional government – has become secondary to that overriding imperative,” adds Dailykos.com.

Krugman drives home the point that this poisonous treason to ensure the rich get richer is not just because Trump was elected by a few electoral college votes; it is part of the transformation of the Republicans into a party that openly and blatantly favors the rich over everyone else.

“It’s time to face up to the scary reality here,” concludes Krugman. “Most people realize, I think, that Donald Trump holds basic American political values in contempt. What we need to realize is that much of his party shares that contempt.”

What this means is that even if Trump were to disappear, the party that nominated and elected him president remains, and their traitorous leadership and cabal of followers will continue to hold power until the American people wake up on election day and renounce their lies, trickery, and deceptions.

Only then will the Republican party be forced to reform itself – and the democratic system can be restored to balance.

Amerian politicians from both sides of the aisle used to fight like hell during elections but then come together to do what is best for America and all its people. We either get back to that, or we all learn to say ‘yes, master Putin” in Russian.

[Chasstev365]

1. Most Republican were in on it!

[still_one]

2. Krugman is exactly right. 2018 will be the opprotunity to send this message loud and clear, and

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the last attempt to save the Republic

[dawn frenzy adams]

15. We won't make it to 2018.

Trump and the Republicans need to be driven out of office, Now!

[still_one]

16. and how will that be done since we are the minority in Congress?

[defacto7]

29. The answer to that may be unspeakable...

and also could be treasonous. The unfortunate fact is that no one really knows but everyone wants to hope.. or ignore.

[still_one]

31. You do it through the process which is VOTING, and frankly if those self-identified progressives who

refused to vote for Hillary by either voting third party or not voting, haven't learned anything from this, then they are as bad as trump and the republicans

[defacto7]

36. In practice I absolutely agree.

You asked a question so I figured you wanted to discuss an answer. You don't seem to have been looking for an answer because you knew the practical one and I share that position. But there is so much about this situation that's not within constitutional bounds we have to beware of what is happening not just see what we want or expect. That takes facing all possible outcomes and they are not all practical or reasonable just as the political powers that be are neither practical nor reasonable.

Question: who owns and controls the voting machines and the process? I think I know the practical answer but it's not one that allows a simple one word solution to, "what are we going to do...".

As for the last part of your statement, I agree.

I'll stand down.

[still_one]

37. The question I asked was to someone else who provided an ambiguous answer, it wasn't

specifically asking you, and I don't mean to be rude by this response.

[defacto7]

45. understood...

..the confusion of open forums at night and I get wordy.

[still_one]

46. Thanks

[RVN VET71]

52. There was a certain righteous smugness about the non-voting "progressives", certainly.

But don't condemn them. I doubt they thought -- any of them -- that Trump had a smidgen of a chance to actually win. Their decision not-to-vote was made from what they thought was a safe position. After all, when Hillary won the election, they would be able to say they played no part in her victory.

Turns out, to the horror of all rational people, including the non-Hillary voters who felt Senator Sanders had been jobbed, as well as the rest of the world, they were wrong.

But this is not the time to let our anger and rancor over their bad decision in the last (maybe final) Presidential election drive away any potential future voters against Trump and the Republican Party.

My feeling in the matter is that any voter who denied Hillary a vote because they felt robbed by the rigged DNC primary process needs to be talked down from their airy stulos and persuaded to vote in 2018 and 2020 (assuming there is still a vote to be made) -- and vote if not FOR someone, then against the Orange faced fascist from Mar a Lago and any member of the Party that supports him.

[Alice11111]

56. Righteous smugness, and not too bright

[ProudLib72]

3. The Redpublican party needs to go

And their very, very stupid base needs to crawl back under their rocks.

[wellst0nev0ter]

35. You mean "Яepublicans"

better dead than red.

[malaise]

4. He's right

The silence is deafening

[Botany]

5. Both McConnell and Ryan were involved with this Russian/Turmp coup too.

Both McConnell and Ryan were involved with this Russian/Turmp coup too.

How did McConnell know if he waited until after the election he would have
somebody else to vote for for SCOTUS?


https://www.democraticunderground.com/10028671176 (NY Times Article)

Paul Ryan & Republican Establishment Used Hacked Info From Russia Against Democrats:

Let's not forget that a super PAC tied to Paul Ryan used material provided by Russia's hacking of the DNC and DCCC.

It was known that Russia had stolen material from the DNC and DCCC and a Paul Ryan Super PAC and as well as other Republican groups used it.

It wasn't just Hillary Clinton being attacked. It wasn't just Trump benefiting. There's potentially more collusion than just that between Trump's team and Russia.

****************

BTW both Sessions and Pence are up to their eyeballs in this crap too. I have some questions about Chaffitz too.

It was a coup and we had treason.

[ms liberty]

39. This. n/t

[smirkymonkey]

50. After Trump, they are the two people I would most like to see tossed out

on their asses. Traitors, all of them.

[cstanleytech]

55. What so many Repugnants fail to realize it seems is that there is no

statute of limitations for treason if they were involved in knowingly committing it.
Maybe not today, maybe not next year but one day everyone involved in committing it will hopefully be brought before a court of law to answer for what they did.

[Alice11111]

57. This is why he won't be impeached. They have to CYA.

Their own acts are probably far beyond something that would cause them not to get elected...maybe, acts that could land them in jail. Too much risk for a full open hearing on anything, including impeachment.

Our best hope is the 25th Amendment or he eats too much KFC...something that brings him down.

[Buns_of_Fire]

6. Trump equals Republicans; Republicans equal Trump

They must never be allowed to try to break that linkage.

Let them be albatrosses around each others' necks from now on.

[Bucky]

7. So I guess he's not interested in a position on the Council of Economic Advisers?

[BlueJac]

8. The Republicans will do anything to push their agenda.......

I told my wife they will cheat to get a Supreme Court Justice and anything else. Reminds me of Bush stealing his election and changing the course of history!!! WTF! nail the traitors to the wall!

[lpbk2713]

9. So true. So true.

[kairos12]

10. The Russians nuked us politically with the aid of the Reich Wing.

[world wide wally]

11. I am still somewhat amazed at how they get average people to vote for them, but

accepting the fact that they sure stupid beyond words does explain a lot

[sharedvalues]

14. They own propaganda. Fox News, conserv radio

There are no left wing broadcast propaganda outlets. And the right has Fox and right-wing hate radio.

That's the reason people vote for the GOP - they are lied to by propaganda broadcast media.

[Ligyron]

41. This really is our biggest problem.

Alternate right, alternate reality, alternate facts.

[sharedvalues]

44. If you know activists wanting to work on this, message me here and I'll connect them

[tblue37]

53. Propaganda works. nt

[2naSalit]

12. OMG!

K&R

[Towlie]

13. Why read a quote of a quote? Here's Paul Krugman's original article:

https://www.nytimes.com/2017/05/12/opinion/judas-tax-cuts-and-the-great-betrayal.html

[LongTomH]

17. The Republicans are treasonous.......so vhat else is news, Bubby????

Hmmmm???

This is where they've been going for decades!!!!

[mountain grammy]

18. It's just a matter of how far they'll go.

We know they're bringing back mass incarceration.

[Erick the Read]

19. Trump Already Knows and Performs that Last Line

[bucolic_frolic]

20. All week long

I've followed Twitter feeds assuring they've got the goods on them

Info gathering has been going on a long time

When the worm turns those not involved will change their tune quickly

[Zorro]

21. Reputinistas. Republican Quislings. Traitors to America all.

[They_Live]

22. Agree!

[Honeycombe8]

23. 100% correct. I don't see any Republicans doing anything to punish Sessions.

Sessions lied under oath, then said he recused himself from the Russian investigation. He then got involved in the firing of the leader of that investigation in the FBI, which as Trump said, was to put a stop to that investigation.

The Republicans should DO something about Sessions' actions.

The Republicans should DO something about naming an independent prosecutor or investigator for the Russian collusion matter.

The Republicans should DO something about Trump firing Comey days after he said he planned on expanding the investigation, for the purpose of stopping the investigation.

[zentrum]

24. Noam Chomsky says.....

'The Republican Party Has Become the Most Dangerous Organization in World History.'

[Hekate]

25. KnR. Krugman was right about BushCheney, and he's right about This. nt

[Marthe48]

26. anyone who supports trump is a traitor

self first, ideology next, country last, if at all. The obvious disregard for rule of law, the flagrant disrespect for the ideals of the Founding Fathers, the willingness to accept russian masters controlling their politicians. It isn't just the politicians who are protecting trump, it is all the supporters who are not willing to defend our freedoms. They are traitors.

[NastyRiffraff]

43. Or, per Mike Pence, country not at all.

Mike Pence, introduced himself to the Republican National Convention -- and to Americans elsewhere -- as a "a Christian, a Conservative and a Republican"

He said what he was, and "American" wasn't part of who he is. In that, he's no different from most Republicans, including and especially those in Congress.

[Marthe48]

59. Thanks for your comment

I didn't watch the repukes, and I didn't know the pos said that

[PsychoBabble]

27. I posted on KRUGMAN this morning because

His article cuts through the BS, with clear, if unwelcome language.

It is harsh. We would rather not accept his conclusion. It strikes at the heart of Democracy and America.

I believe it is true.

The problem it leaves me with is ... what next? There is no hand across the aisle to reach to. Plus,
Dems are waaaaaaay behind on the political infrastructure building that the Conservatives have patiently built over the past 40 years to get to this point.

Frankly, they kicked our ass on this. We thought our ideas and belief in the common good was sufficient. Guess what?

It wasn't.

And the GOP push is about nothing but the raw power to get what they want. Mostly for the wealthy.

And power only respects and responds to ... greater power.

[rwsanders]

28. That is there normal MO, and should be a normal talking point for all opposition...

Nixon: secret negotiations with Vietnam to stop Johnson leading to abandoning 1700 POWs
Ford: Pardoned Nixon
Reagan: secret negotiations with Iran to stop Carter
Bush 1: helped Reagan and was probably his access point to the CIA
Bush 2: Invasion of Iraq and Iran, ignored 9/11 warnings

Then there is just the day to day fight they wage against the principles the country was founded on, all to create a hereditary aristocracy here just like in Europe. Just like in Animal Farm:
"But surely you don't want to see Farmer Jones return?"

[defacto7]

30. This coup has been patiently planned

since the 1950's and has waded through generations to get to this point. Welcome to the hell planted by the JBS and it's minion children.

Fight for freedom my friends. Keep resisting.

[Volaris]

32. '...much of his party shares that contempt.'

As someone else here has stated previously--
TETHER THAT FUCKING CHICKEN.

I want trumps impeachment and imprisonment tied to mcconnels neck so tight he will WISH the same fate upon himself, even IF all he has to do is resign.

It's time. The dog aint learned shit. Get the chicken, get the rope. Fuck their snowflake feelings and their political version of puppydog eyes I'm DONE. It's not even about them being the 'opposition'; that, Obama showed us how to handle. They think they can just skate on HIGH FUCKING TREASON.

NO. Not this time.

[panfluteman]

33. Billionaire Trump Donor Robert Mercer and His Cabal Took a Look at Russia,

Putin and the Russian oligarchs and said, "That's what we want, that's where we want to take the country", and the rest is history, as they say. Luckily, the wind was at their backs because the dumbing down of the American educational system and the rise of reality TV in recent years has left us with a lot of dumb and gullible voters. And besides, Trump played a successful billionaire on "reality" TV. The bait was perfect. The whole vicarious Horatio Alger bit.

I think it has become almost like an immutable law of physics now that Republican legislators nowadays will never get behind a bill unless there is a massive tax cut or other form of giveaway to the rich in it. And the recent "American Health Care Act" is a prime example. It wasn't "healthcare" at all - it was more like death care - the human sacrifice of the lives of unfortunate poor and working class Americans on the altar of the rich and their all-consuming GREED.

[madinmaryland]

34. Paul Krugman has been spot on for years. This is what I have also thought is going

on, but have been afraid to state it. What happens if the Repubican Party has been involved in a conspiracy to overthrow the government. This goes WAY beyond a "Constitutional Crisis".

[retrowire]

38. Sigh*

I believe it.

[raven mad]

40. Truth hurts, doesn't it, Republicans?

[BlancheSplanchnik]

42. Yes! The luminary, Paul Krugman, publishes what we've all been saying.

May his words, invested with the full weight of his reputation, be a banner to those who must lead Our fight.



OK enough with the grand high pronouncements, Blanche. Basically, Paul Krugman is Right On Point....my kind of guy and I wish I could meet his single twin! 💘

[niyad]

47. he is saying what has been obvious to many for years now. they have just become far

more blatant about it since 11/9

[StarzGuy]

48. Why say possible treason?

I think it is very clear that the republican party is as a matter of fact committing treason by working with Putin and his henchmen to install their puppets (both Trump and Pence) into the presidency and vice presidency of our United States of America.

If the investigation has the definitive "smoking gun" proof of this treason they need to release it to the public. How else are voters going to make better judgement on whom to vote for in our next elections. By doing so may be the only way currently to force Trump and Pence to resign. Unfortunately, all I hear from democrats is a lot of blather and they refuse to say if they do have the goods on Trumpocracy.

Otherwise I think the accusations of "wrong doing" or treason will not cause any change in the 2018 elections.

Even lefties news anchors like Rachel Maddow still dance around the word treason and so far will not speak truth to powerful governmental institutions or the rest of us...

[Hayduke Bomgarte]

49. " Entire Republican Party Of Treason"

I've been saying that for several years. I've been saying, even longer, that the gooper party should be subject to RICO violations out the ying yang.

[Bradical79]

51. The Republican Party needs eliminated

I don't know that it's possible, but they are increasingly becoming more of an exisential threat.

[kimbutgar]

54. Somebody put up a poll saying it is the Democratic Party that is for the rich

And rethugs are protectors of our constituion. Whatever they are smoking must be good stuff.

That said if you think that you have a serious mental disorder. And the 38% who still support him are cult brain washed.

[Hula Popper]

58. I sure hope

that treason is still punishable by death. Nothing would please me more than dead republicans.