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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

Monday, May 21, 2018

Good

The Democrats are preparing to do what I would hope they would do: run against corruption.  What's more, they are properly trying to tie the broader Republican agenda to pay-for-play politics.  Here's an important 'graph.

Democrats, the official said, will make the case that they are best equipped to rein in what they are calling “the most corrupt administration in modern times” and are prepared to connect the corruption allegations to a Republican governing agenda that has delivered outsize tax cuts to the wealthiest Americans and dismantled financial and environmental regulations that aimed to protect average taxpayers.

This is where you can tie up all the loose threads.  Why do Republicans stand in the way of popular gun safety measures?  Because they are being paid.  Why do Republicans shovel tax cuts at the rich?  Because they are being paid.  Why do Republicans gut environmental and consumer safety regulations?  Because they are being paid.

Shit writes itself.

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