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JHB

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1. Not all that shocking, really

Reply to dlk (Original post)

Mon Dec 17, 2018, 01:20 PM

Dec 2018

They've been at it for a couple of decades now, pretending they were just "playing hardball".

Gingrich. Rove. Bush. Cheney. How long have they just bulldozed norms and got away with it by simply brazening out the ensuing uproar?

When that became their SOP, all this became inevitable.

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Paul Krugman: The G.O.P. Goes Full Authoritarian [View all] dlk Dec 2018 OP

Not all that shocking, really JHB Dec 2018 #1

I agree except maybe it has been longer than a couple decades Jarqui Dec 2018 #3

Yep, people forget about their Thousand Year Reich, err I mean "permanent majority" schemes. Hassin Bin Sober Dec 2018 #6

The G.O.P. Goes Full Authoritarian Botany Dec 2018 #2

More like they go full on dictatorship RAB910 Dec 2018 #4

There is literally no other way they can win, I'm not surprised budkin Dec 2018 #5

Don't just blame Democrats, watoos Dec 2018 #7

Duh onit2day Dec 2018 #8

"Yet none of them have had classic military coups, with tanks in the street." Perseus Dec 2018 #9