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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, December 26, 2017

Disturbing

You have a sitting member of Congress wanting to "purge" the FBI and DOJ.  As Josh Marshall points out, this is part of a broader trend of the Republican party embracing authoritarianism.  As he notes, this preceded Trump, but it is in large part accelerating under him.

Language and ideas like this are why it's so critical that Democrats win control of at least one House of Congress next November.  Someone needs to put the breaks on this frightening movement of one of America's two political parties into the realm of Vladimir Putin's political ideas.

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