✨I will remember him (Dick Cheney) for breaking with the regime last year and voting Democrat.

[harumph]

23. It's because we are not up against one person,

but an actual (vast) right wing conspiracy that Hillary spoke of. In a sense, they've done a continuity of command type of thing - inasmuch as there's always another bastard lined up to take a dead bastard's place. And as much as we complain about the dearth of
lefty billionaires putting their money where their mouth is - the way the economy has been parasitically warped, lefty billionaires are feeding at the same trough as right-wing billionaires (who are willing to spend money to promote their candidates). Trump is clearly stupid and barely present - but his backers are neither. Right wing think tanks and PACs have learned from electoral defeat, they understand that the body politic is weak (54% read below a sixth grade level). This is appalling and unheard of in so-called western democracies. It's even hard to get accurate literacy data for the US to compare. (Try searching on that - it's all over the map and IMO intentionally confusing). I suspect very much that is because an honest head-to-head comparison would lead to the conclusion that we are failing our poor and middle class young in all educational metrics. Federalism strikes again. At some point under funding education rises to abuse - yet there is still no constitutional mandate to educate. Then we have the tech companies that are given free reign to encourage phone addiction and nano-attention spans amongst our youth. While the billionaire class either don't realize it or feel they can run away.., they are shitting where they eat - and they will eventually eat shit and die. I'm used to eating shit and my tolerance is much better than a rich person's.