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TSheehan

(277 posts)
7. If there were no Bush-Cheney, there'd no Trump. And Cheney's evil was competent.
Wed Dec 26, 2018, 03:27 PM
Dec 2018

Let’s not lose sight of that just because the present (Republican) President is so fuckinh shit.

In many ways Trump is an unprecedented danger, but almost every individual thing about his Presidency or even parts of his personality has some precedent in the Bush-Cheney, Reagan-Bush, Nixon-Agnew-Wallace eras - or indeed, that of Newt Gingrich’s Contract on America House caucus, or all of the far-right media outlets that have cultivated anti-intellectual, irrational, and bigoted Republican Outrage Politics (TM) ie. FOX, talk radio, Murdoch’s tabloids, and so forth. And then there are the overt white supremacists...

Trump has assimilated all the above tendencies into his own particular BRAND (emphasis) of politics. All of this plus the Russian shit and other brazen instances of corruption and criminality - not to mention, consistently shamelessly lying, cruelty, and contempt for democracy, all of which have long histories among the political Right - pretty much sum up Trump.

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