Через неделю несколько мини-Трампов успешно переизберутся в Конгресс и продолжат неутомимую борьбу с расследованием Мюллера.
Why haven’t the Kings and Gaetzes of Congress been ejected from the caucus, or at least censured in some way, for encouraging ethnic hatred? The answer, at least in part, is that the GOP learned all the wrong lessons from the 2016 election. A Trump loss, as the polls predicted, might have taught Republicans that they could no longer exclusively cater to old, white, racially anxious men (as the 2012 GOP “autopsy” report warned). It might have forced Republicans to stop indulging the crazy things that many in their base believed; it might have learned that all that Fox News fearmongering was counterproductive to actually being a governing party. Instead, by the narrowest of margins, Trump managed to claim the White House. And the cost-benefit analysis for a Republican demagogue considering saying something racist or incendiary — or for a partisan colleague contemplating criticizing such — never changed. In short, the GOP never cleaned house, and the mess just keeps getting worse. https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/be-angry-at-trump-but-dont-let-republicans-off-the-hook/2018/10/29/22bd0b96-dbb8-11e8-85df-7a6b4d25cfbb_story.html
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Date: 2018-10-30 04:21 pm (UTC)Через неделю несколько мини-Трампов успешно переизберутся в Конгресс и продолжат неутомимую борьбу с расследованием Мюллера.
Why haven’t the Kings and Gaetzes of Congress been ejected from the caucus, or at least censured in some way, for encouraging ethnic hatred?
The answer, at least in part, is that the GOP learned all the wrong lessons from the 2016 election.
A Trump loss, as the polls predicted, might have taught Republicans that they could no longer exclusively cater to old, white, racially anxious men (as the 2012 GOP “autopsy” report warned). It might have forced Republicans to stop indulging the crazy things that many in their base believed; it might have learned that all that Fox News fearmongering was counterproductive to actually being a governing party.
Instead, by the narrowest of margins, Trump managed to claim the White House. And the cost-benefit analysis for a Republican demagogue considering saying something racist or incendiary — or for a partisan colleague contemplating criticizing such — never changed.
In short, the GOP never cleaned house, and the mess just keeps getting worse.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/be-angry-at-trump-but-dont-let-republicans-off-the-hook/2018/10/29/22bd0b96-dbb8-11e8-85df-7a6b4d25cfbb_story.html