"Republicans are tough. Democrats are spineless." Can we please now stop repeating this idiocy?

[Aristus]

Since the 2018 mid-terms, our Democratic Party has been going great guns against the Russian Mob-funded, Brooks Brothers-wearing street gang known as the Republican Party.

The Republicans bow and scrape before a quivering sludge of vaguely humanlike protoplasm that makes Jabba the Hutt look like an ideal, upstanding citizen. They're ready to acquit him of every crime he's ever committed. I don't know what they fear; a Russian mob enforcer at their door, campaign donation checks drying up, a prosperous country for all, etc. But they're a spineless lot. A hapless, cowardly, feckless, obsequious band of losers whose time is the sun, God willing, will be ending soon.

Meanwhile, the Democrats in the House and Senate repeatedly demonstrate brilliance, competence, devotion to duty, and patriotism every single day during this agonizing American nightmare. They are our hope-spot. May they fight on...

[lindysalsagal]

1. "Tax and spend liberals" "Socialist Liberals" "Commies." Now owned by the GOP.

All of their favorite insults: They now own. It's their identity.

[Aristus]

2. And proudly waving Russian flags.

Ronald Reagan must be rolling over in his grave. I still blame him for starting this shit...

[JonLP24]

3. Reagan had his own October Surprise with Iran

Ronald Reagan’s “October Surprise” Plot Was Real After All

The 2020s began with such a hair-raising blitz of Iran-related news that you probably missed the bombshell revelation about US-Iranian relations that came with the end of the 2010s. Rather than a potential US-Iran war today, this particular story transports us back to a more innocent time, when politics was about principles and Republican presidents were decent men: the beginning of the Reagan era.

At question is the 1980 presidential election between Ronald Reagan and Jimmy Carter, specifically the “October Surprise” that is alleged to have handed Reagan the election, long dismissed as a conspiracy theory. The whole saga is lengthy and convoluted, but the core allegation is this: that in the middle of the Iran hostage crisis, the Reagan campaign made a secret deal with the new rulers of Iran to delay the release of the hostages until after the election, dooming Carter’s chances of victory.

The allegation, doggedly pursued by the late investigative journalist Robert Parry, spawned books and even a 1992 congressional investigation, which determined there was “no credible evidence supporting any attempt or proposal to attempt by the Reagan Presidential campaign .?.?. to delay the release of the American hostages in Iran.” Parry and others looking into the case were attacked in the media, with much of the issue revolving around whether or not Reagan’s campaign manager and (later) free press–hating CIA director William Casey had traveled to Madrid on a particular date to meet with Iranian government representatives.

Well, nearly seventeen years after the House October Surprise Task Force concluded that the whole idea was bunk, an outlet no less venerable than the New York Times has turned that conclusion on its head. Just three days out from a new decade, the Times published what in any other era would have been a bombshell story based on documents donated to Yale from the offices of David Rockefeller, the former chairman of Chase Manhattan Corporation.

https://www.jacobinmag.com/2020/01/ronald-reagan-october-surprise-carter-iran-hostage-crisis-conspiracy

I'm not going to praise Reagan to bash Trump.