Then you go to the next generation, the German man’s son - an Outer Boroughs NYC real estate developer who takes advantage of government policies, gets connected to local political machines and organized crime, and engages in fraud, tax evasion, and blatant racial discrimination in housing - among other brazen, shameless, criminal practices that collectively make him and his family very wealthy.

Finally, you get to the next generation - specifically the real estate developer’s second son and fourth child, who is even more of a fraud, con man, and braggart asshole than his father and grandfather. This particular individual’s specialty is obviously not money (he always loses it) but media manipulation, bringing the crime family business to Manhattan and to the country and world as a whole, with the help of vicious tabloids and the same Roy Cohn who proudly guided Joseph McCarthy and mobsters alike in their sociopathic, career-and-life destroying legal and political battles.

From real estate business to show business to fraud business to foreign business and the inevitable corruption, criminality, and potential for blackmail, this third-generation con man braggart/malignant narcissist has become a shameless - always shameless - political operator, engaging in the most blatant racism, misogyny, and character assassination yet to be seen in the Republican Party. The consequences for him? The Republican presidential nomination and US Presidency itself.

Did he get to the Presidency legitimately? Considering his own personal and family history and the contemporary Republican Party’s absolutely cynical, anti-democratic views of politics, perhaps the more important question is: What is “legitimacy” to a man and a political party that rejects the legitimacy of democracy itself? The question answers itself. Proof of legitimacy is power itself - specifically THEIR power, attaining and holding it by any means necessary.

Neither Freidrich nor even Fred could have imagined it. I wonder if they would be proud, or jealous.

This President: “Fake News Media and Do-Nothing Democrats are sabotaging my tremendous economy with this Coronavirus from CHINA” etc.

Geez, how utterly normal and reassuring.

...you’re right to worry.







https://www.newsweek.com/katie-waldman-mike-pence-donald-trump-stephen-miller-1487608

Sounds like the perfect fascist power couple.

Of course, his own shitty “response” to the coronavirus is part of why the stock market is crashing.

“Best economy ever!”

“We are America. Those other people are not.”

- RNC Chairmain Rich Bond to a reporter during the 1992 Republican National Convention.

https://newrepublic.com/article/156411/end-gop

Great article!

And he's been living Upstate on a farm with my old Yellow Labrador.

from journalists.

Remind Americans that Republican Party leaders themselves believe that the President - THEIR (Republican) President - and at least one of their colleagues in Congress are being paid by Putin.

But then again...”Witch Hunt, Hoax, No Collusion”

- Current House Republican leader Kevin McCarthy, in conversation with House Republican colleagues (including then-Speaker Paul Ryan).

They know.