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struggle4progress

(118,290 posts)
Mon Sep 9, 2019, 02:52 AM Sep 2019

Can't erase a decade of clean air progress with a Sharpie

By Arnold Schwarzenegger
September 8 at 7:11 PM

California has been a leader in the fight to clean our air since one of my heroes, Ronald Reagan, was our governor.

The Trump administration, for some reason, is hellbent on reversing decades of history and progress. Whether it is political pettiness, shortsightedness or just plain jealousy, I couldn’t tell you.

I can tell you that it’s wrong. It’s un-American. And it’s an affront to long-standing conservative principles ...

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-cant-erase-a-decade-of-clean-air-progress-with-a-sharpie/2019/09/08/8d6393de-d248-11e9-86ac-0f250cc91758_story.html

Arnold is right: it’s wrong and un-American. But his Reagan hagiography is hallucinatory

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Can't erase a decade of clean air progress with a Sharpie (Original Post) struggle4progress Sep 2019 OP
He's talking to the Republicans. lunatica Sep 2019 #1
+ struggle4progress Sep 2019 #2

lunatica

(53,410 posts)
1. He's talking to the Republicans.
Mon Sep 9, 2019, 04:05 AM
Sep 2019

Reminding them of Saint Ronny. The Governator, as we called him in California, doesn’t give a rats ass for those who aren’t Republicans. Perhaps he’s hoping to save the party.

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