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Elwood P Dowd

(11,443 posts)
Mon Feb 8, 2021, 01:15 PM Feb 2021

Robert Reich on monstrous predicament: One political party has abandoned reality and democracy.

https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2021/feb/07/trump-senate-impeachment-trial-republicans-robert-reich

A shocking three out of four Republican voters don’t think Joe Biden won legitimately. About 45% even support the storming of the Capitol.

The crux of the problem is Americans now occupy two separate worlds – a fact-based pro-democracy world and a Trump-based authoritarian one.

Trump spent the last four years seducing voters into his world, turning the GOP from a political party into a grotesque projection of his pathological narcissism.

Regardless of whether he is convicted, America must now deal with the monstrous predicament he left behind: one of the nation’s two major political parties has abandoned reality and democracy.
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Robert Reich on monstrous predicament: One political party has abandoned reality and democracy. (Original Post) Elwood P Dowd Feb 2021 OP
The right never had a firm grip on reality before the Pig. Thomas Hurt Feb 2021 #1
I agree with Robert. ooky Feb 2021 #2
There is no sense in all of us going down with the ship while Midnight Writer Feb 2021 #3

Thomas Hurt

(13,903 posts)
1. The right never had a firm grip on reality before the Pig.
Mon Feb 8, 2021, 01:30 PM
Feb 2021

It is littered with haters, paranoids, magical thinkers and fools.

Trump is their earthly Christ, their prophet and savior, recently martyred and crucified. They are all awaiting the resurrection next.

Midnight Writer

(21,543 posts)
3. There is no sense in all of us going down with the ship while
Mon Feb 8, 2021, 03:35 PM
Feb 2021

the GOP is arguing that the hole in the hull is not a problem and lifeboats don't work

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