...it's that, over the course of a couple of days, they will be able to achieve pretty much their entire agenda.
-- Massive restructuring of the economy to direct wealth upwards? Check.
-- Creating permanent deficits that will require future "entitlement" cuts? Check.
-- Destroying Obamacare? Check.
-- Ending a free and open Internet? Check.
When you combine those with the theft of the SCOTUS seat, it becomes evident that, despite our gibes about the Trump administration being The Gang That Couldn't Shoot Straight, Trumpelthinskin and the Republicans will have enshrined virtually everything on their wish-list into law. Mission accomplished.
Yes, it may cause voters to take revenge in 2018 and 2020. But I'm sure the Republicans are confident that, however bad the backlash, they'll be able to hold on to at least one chamber of Congress or the Presidency. And that's all they need. With their philosophy of government set in stone, all they'll need is to be able to block any and all attempts to remedy the situation. Obstruct, obstruct, obstruct. And it'll work, because, after next week, the status-quo will be the Republican wet dream.
The only way we can prevent this...well, we can't prevent this. More like, the only way we can undo the damage that will be done to us by the end of the year is by taking back BOTH chambers of Congress AND the White House by 2020 (and, preferably, at least one Congressional chamber by next year, to prevent any further damage). But can we do it?
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