2016 Postmortem
In reply to the discussion: The signs were there. They've been there since 2008. [View all]Texin
(2,596 posts)This is how they realized they could logjam the entire wheels of government. Gingrich began this in '94, but the Clintons were targeted and the Washington insiders tried to de-legitimize them as well and dwindling numbers of Dems in the House began the process of solidifying the rethug stranglehold on America to this day. After the economic collapse of 2008, I would have thought that the rethugs and their destruction of the economy would have made them radioactive for several generations of voters, but I was wrong. McConnell and his cabal simply double-downed on the Gingrich tactic and cretins like DJtRump just began to hammer on President Obama being an "other", not legal, etc. You keep telling stupid people what they want to hear - or simply what they hear - long enough, people start believing the shit. They kept hammering every alleged wrongdoing by the Clintons for the past 25 years or more, and it did permanent damage to them. These rethugs are the simply trying to finally do what they've been promising their Plutocrat masters since The New Deal (and even before that to be honest): totally destroy the Federal government, and most specifically, any social program ever instituted to help the people and to broaden and solidify democracy for all its citizens. They've won. There won't be any going back from this now. Not ever.