WakeForestRanger
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Pubs have become, basically, reality deniers.
But today's Republicans have similar delusions. We don't learn history and we don't learn from history.
They don't even understand how the Bush tax cuts led to the Great Recession.
But today's Republicans have similar delusions. We don't learn history and we don't learn from history.
They don't even understand how the Bush tax cuts led to the Great Recession.
I agree completely, but if they're simply making the same mistakes again (and I think they are), then it will catch up to them eventually, just as it did under Dubya and in the 1920s. The problem, of course, is that when the reckoning comes we're all going to pay for their mistakes and delusions, not just them.
ETA: I will say that it is amazing at how the GOP has kept doggedly pursuing its trickle down economic policies since the Gilded Age, despite the abundance of historical evidence that it doesn't really work. They keep changing the name of it, but it's basically just the same economic and tax policies implemented over and over, and no matter how ineffective it is, they just keep at it. I saw McConnell interviewed on ABC's This Week this morning, and when the interviewer pointed out that most economists don't believe the tax cut will pay for itself and will do little to boost the economy, McConnell just kept vaguely insisting it would work. The interviewer at one point basically said that McConnell was asking everyone to take him on faith (he laughed). But it's true - it's like a religious belief and blind faith to them.
Asked if Moore should be in the Senate, McConnell says on ABC: "I'm going to let the people of Alabama decide."
Alabama’s Disdain for Democrats Looms Over Its Senate Race
I agree with the notion that abortion politics is a key (but not a lone) reason for anti-Democrat amongst rural southerners.
Wow, I'm surprised Trump advocates stopping the border wall, military, and second amendment.
Wow, I'm surprised Trump advocates stopping the border wall, military, and second amendment.
As she flipped through the scrapbook last week, Gibson said, she realized it contained other indications of her relationship with Moore, which she says began in March 1981, after he came to speak to her high school civics class.
On a page titled “commencement,” under “My own guests,” she had written “Roy S. Moore,” just above “mom” and “dad.”
On a page titled “remembrances,” she had listed her graduation gifts line by line, including “$10, card” from “Roy S. Moore,” and a check mark indicating she had sent a thank-you card.