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The false promise of Trumps impeachment will not save America from true disaster.
By Jamelle Bouie
http://www.slate.com/articles/news_and_politics/politics/2017/07/trump_is_not_going_to_be_impeached.html
We are just six months into Donald Trumps term as president. But the rapid pace of newsand the extent to which those events are quickly metabolized by the publichas made it feel like an eternity. Each week brings new revelations of misconduct and transgressive behavior, from Trumps breathless attacks on the press to his open contempt for the independence of federal law enforcement. And if its not Trumps individual behavior that drives headlines, its the actions of his administration and its allies in Congress, from the Muslim ban to the full-on effort to gut Medicaid and unravel whats left of the federal social safety net. The sheer volume of controversy feels unsustainable, and its hard not to be gripped by the sense that this is the nadir of Trump administration; that it cant get worse.
But it can. It likely will.
Consider the last Republican presidency. Between the Iraq war, torture, and the disastrous response to Hurricane Katrina, George W. Bushs critics remember him as one of the worst presidents of Americas postWorld War II era, a woefully ill-prepared and ill-informed figure who left the nation and the world worse than how he found it. Memory being what it is, its easy to remember Bush as being terrible from the beginning, that the dark course of his administration was evident from the moment he entered office.
This isnt true. For most of his first year, until the attacks on Sept. 11, Bush was an unremarkable, even mediocre, president. His was a typical Republican administration, with an interest in tax cuts, deregulation, and conservative social policy, with occasional bipartisan cooperation from a Senate Democratic majority. The milestones of Bushs administrationthe events and choices that form the bulk of his legacywouldnt happen for at least two years after his inauguration. From the perspective of July 2001, it was far from obvious that Americans were facing an era of profound political turbulence, and even less obvious that this would be the function of an empowered executive branch, flexing its muscle at every opportunity.
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mn9driver
(4,428 posts)When they get anything even close, they will use it as an excuse to dismantle everything.
Except the war machine.
workinclasszero
(28,270 posts)To snuff out the last vestiges of a country for anyone but the super rich.
And they know they can wear us down with the constant trump antics.
I keep saying trump is NOT the only issue: there are a LOT of gop/elite/etc players using him as a distraction. They have resources, time, and the will to implement a truly evil agenda - they just need an event.
trump is the perfect dumpster fire distraction and eventual scape-goat when needed.
We had terrorist attack, war, natural disasters, near economic collapse - under bush. Wait until something happens with trump at the helm....
oberliner
(58,724 posts)Hit like 90 percent approval.
Canoe52
(2,949 posts)Nay
(12,051 posts)in a majority of offices from dogcatcher to vice president; a rabid "I've got mine, fuck you" racist and Nazi-like public attitude cultivated by RW radio and TV for 40 years; vilification of education and teachers; and, finally, the utter corruption of the Citizens United ruling and bang, it's essentially unfixable.
IMO, we'll be picking up the pieces for a hundred years, if there are even people to pick up the pieces. The Pubs have a lock on everything, folks. Expect them to implement the most godawful oligarchy possible, just because they can, after the inevitable shock doctrine event.
Gothmog
(145,558 posts)Cha
(297,655 posts)was understood.