But we must get, and stay, informed. Articles like this one do just that. They bring clarity to what is going on.

….along was to destroy SS and Medicare and Medicaid. It's Paul Ryan's wet dream since he was in college.

There must be a brain parasite that is destructive to its host and then to maximally destroy its environment. Sounds like a type of biological warfare.

They love her because she valorizes and makes noble their sociopathy—"greed is good".

Thank you, Peggy.

So, this means that James Mann just figured this out !!!

Hell, almost everybody here at ole DU knew this was happening all along.
Why is this even news.??

On the other hand, it is very good to see somebody writing what happened and is happening..
Although I must say, no way can I read all that.. and drag all the negativity up again... I know it is going on and can only RESIST as best I can...

BTW, I do not believe his "base" is 40% of the country.. He barely has that much total support...

---Not aimed at you Peggy..

OOOkay, back to Mahler Third..

people have been alerting the public for a while, but everyone seems to be entertained with Trump's stupidities...Trump has not done any of it, I wish people would understand that, he has not the capacity or the intellect to think these things over, the main destructive force are McConnell, Ryan, and Pence will go along with anything those two do.

The efforts need to be on taking Ryan and McConnell out of government, Trump can stay and nothing will happen besides tweets and embarrassment. With a Democratic majority in both houses Trump becomes just a side show, but if Ryan and McConnell stay the devastation will continue.

I wish the media, and many people would stop concentrating so much on Trump, he is just a monkey who can use a pen, the evildoers are the ones behind him.

I just said something similar in another thread!

HE'S the symptom, not the cause ...

If they take down Trump but leave Pence/McConnell/Ryan, we're still fucked. Also, the deplorables will find someone worse than Trump. That Alabama election shouldn't have even been close.

However, I do think that drawing attention to the fact that it is Congress that is systematically raping the country, and Donald Trump is merely rubber-stamping legislation they have long wanted to pass, is valuable. But he has done his bit through his own agency, in his Cabinet appointments and XOs that have thrown the federal bureaucracy into turmoil. It is a cooperative effort to torch the US federal government and loot the Treasury. And Congress will do nothing about the scandals and corruption so long as they need that rubber stamp in the Oval Office.

This was easily predictable, often predicted, and ignored by too many voters who should have known better.

-- Mal

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Elsewhere, across a range of environmental and regulatory agencies, Trump has appointed officials with a record of hostility to the idea that the federal government operates for the benefit of the public.

along with Frum's Fredo piece. Thanks for posting it.

‘After Trump’s first year in office, what is clear beyond doubt is that the damage he is causing to the nation, to its domestic and foreign policies, and even more to the rule of law, to its constitutional system, to its social fabric, and to its very sense of national unity, is piling up week by week. The longer he stays, the worse it will get.’