5 thoughts on “Monday Open Thread”

1. But his emails!                                                                                                             https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/justice-department-acknowledges-24-emails-reveal-trumps-thinking-on-ukraine/ar-BBZyq9v

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2. On to Iowa!  Go, Amy.  Take State!

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3. Pat Cipillone is pleading with the Senate to end the Era of Impeachment. This only 24 hours after Joni Ernst announced that Biden will be impeached if he is elected.

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   1. This era only lasts for as long as there's a Republican in the White House. Much like the length of eras where deficits are a major concern.

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4. WOTD from Josh Marshall: "A Uniquely American Path to Authoritarianism"

   Josh, as usual, knocks it out of the park:

   My own theory – and it’s embedded in much of the coverage we’ve done at TPM going back a decade – is that Republican elites cultivated right-wing political movements they had little actual control over but profited greatly from. You can see this in microcosm in the 2011-2019 Republican House. ‘Establishment’ Republicans like Boehner operated as a thin membrane or veneer over a party which was already mostly a Trumpite party. The caucus’s ungovernability was a key sign of that. Republican elites incubated them, derived power from them and saw their number of Republican elected officials grow at the expense of more mainstream conservative Republicans. Party elites didn’t play this gate-keeping role because they actually had little control or true connection to the motive force of their party, what we later came to call Trump’s ‘base’. Trump didn’t so much overthrow them as expose them as largely powerless.

    

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