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2016 Postmortem
Showing Original Post only (View all)Republicans are now vowing Total War. And the consequences could be immense. [View all]
By Paul Waldman November 3 at 1:32 PM
The election is just five days away, and something truly frightening is happening, something with far-reaching implications for the immediate future of American politics. Republicans, led by Donald Trump but by no means limited to him, are engaging in kind of termite-level assault on American democracy, one that looks on the surface as though its just aimed at Hillary Clinton, but in fact is undermining our entire system.
I know, my conservative friends will say that this kind of talk is just fear-mongering and exaggeration. But there is something deeply troubling happening right now, and it goes beyond the ordinary trading of blows in a campaign season. Consider these recent developments:
* There appears to be a war going on inside the FBI, and from what we can tell, a group of rogue agents, mostly in New York, may be in such a fervor to destroy Hillary Clinton that they may be aggressively leaking damaging innuendo to the press against her in the waning days of the campaign. They succeeded in their apparent goal of making FBI director James Comey a tool of their campaign and the basis for their investigation is an anti-Clinton book written under the auspices of an organization of which the CEO of the Trump campaign is co-founder and chairman. Pro-Trump FBI agents now seem to be coordinating with Trump surrogates to do maximal possible damage to Clinton.
* Republicans continue to cheer the fact that the electronic systems of American political groups were illegally hacked, and then private communications were selectively released in order to do damage to one side in this election. The Republican nominee has explicitly asked a hostile foreign power to hack into his opponents electronic systems.
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Republicans are now vowing Total War. And the consequences could be immense. [View all]
DonViejo
Nov 2016
OP
I was just about to shout something impulsive about how this is the CONS. NOT the Dems.
calimary
Nov 2016
#4
the mantra that Republicans would be the permanent power in 2004 was upended.
SleeplessinSoCal
Nov 2016
#5
I can't see view one, though. Get a blank page with a green url, in compatability view get a blank
Mc Mike
Nov 2016
#63
Putin's agent Trump is doing well for his master at tearing apart our country.
keithbvadu2
Nov 2016
#16
The idea that had a different candidate been chosen, they would be willing to work with said
Demsrule86
Nov 2016
#53
That is all fine and well except that idea is something you pulled out of thin air
Cosmocat
Nov 2016
#54
"And we should all be very worried about what Republicans will do after November 8, whether they
smirkymonkey
Nov 2016
#43
With more careful watching, you would have noticed this going on for the the last forty years
nolabels
Nov 2016
#55
One only need look at Venezuela to see what Republicans are planning for the next eight years.
GETPLANING
Nov 2016
#59