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The whole aim of practical politics is to keep the populace alarmed (and hence clamorous to be led to safety) by menacing it with an endless series of hobgoblins, all of them imaginary.

H.L. Mencken

Tuesday, October 10, 2017

Creeping Fascism

Today has sucked, generally and personally.  But there have been a host of stories that are really concerning.

The White House wants to investigate a professor who is critical of Trump.

The NFL looks like it will cave to bullying from White House over the take a knee issue.

Trump calls the Penguins "patriots" presumably because they don't criticize him.

The Trump White House continues to embrace bold lying.

Steve Bannon is embarked upon a campaign to give us more Roy Moore's in the future by primarying conservative Republicans in red states with barking mad lunatics...like Trump.

Trump meanwhile is likely edging us closer to some even greater level of chaos.  War in North Korea?  Some sort of petulant pissing match with Congress that imperils the full faith and credit of the US?  Blowing up the Iran deal?  Deporting DREAMers?

It's great that Bob Corker picked a Twitter fight, but his stern words are meaningless as long as the rest of the GOP empowers this dangerously unbalanced lunatic.

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