Facebook Posts on politics-2018

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  For the emoticon table only, Love Haha Wow Sad Angry are listed separately.

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Cheney Vice.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/the-dick-cheney-of-vice-just-craves-power-the-reality-was-worse/2018/12/27/9f8effae-09f7-11e9-88e3-989a3e456820_story.html

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posted 2018-12-28
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title Cheney Vice.
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posted "12/28/2018 08:35:39 PM"
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Lessons never learned.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/leon-panetta-there-will-be-no-winners-from-this-shutdown/2018/12/28/fae8e960-0ae1-11e9-85b6-41c0fe0c5b8f_story.html

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posted "12/28/2018 08:31:32 PM"
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Today's news

Scope of Putin interference continues to astound -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/12/16/new-report-russian-disinformation-prepared-senate-shows-operations-scale-sweep/

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/17/us/politics/russia-2016-influence-campaign.html

And he's messing with Syria too -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/russian-disinformation-campaign-targets-syrias-beleaguered-rescue-workers/2018/12/18/113b03c4-02a9-11e9-8186-4ec26a485713_story.html

Parts of the Trump administration are finally taking
further steps -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/russians-sanctioned-over-election-hacking-and-assassination-attempt/2018/12/19/c85adbba-03b7-11e9-9122-82e98f91ee6f_story.html

Taiwan faces a hybrid threat of military and social
aggresion -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2018/12/14/chinas-hybrid-warfare-against-taiwan/

But who needs foreign collusion if you have the National
Enquirer -

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/16/business/media/national-enquirer-trump-mistresses.html

Republican women try to wake up party before they become
former Republican women -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/crisis-level-republican-women-sound-warning-after-election-losses/2018/12/16/e8c99eba-ffb4-11e8-83c0-b06139e540e5_story.html

Former  Republican conservatives try to wake up party -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/book-party/wp/2018/12/14/feature/anti-trump-conservatives-want-to-reverse-the-gops-destruction-but-they-helped-light-the-fuse

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/12/17/you-are-foul-disgusting-liar-weekly-standard-editors-blast-steve-king-celebrating-magazines-demise

But part of the party seems to have gone to sleep for
good -

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/16/us/politics/congress-trump-shutdown.html

Conservationists, as well as conservatives, regret
supporting Zinke -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/ryan-zinkes-most-lasting-failure/2018/12/16/c3a0697e-0168-11e9-b5df-5d3874f1ac36_story.html

but Zinke doesn't care -

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/16/us/ryan-zinkes-legal-troubles.html

It's a wonderful life - without Trump -

 http://washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/12/16/snl-imagined-world-without-trump-president-trump-was-not-amused

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Qualifying to run Fürstentum Liechtenstein

How the Republican House chooses to run down the clock -
instead of figuring out how to replace Obamacare with
their secret plan that will provide better coverage to
more people at lower cost - something you'd think they'd
be talking about considering the recent court decision.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-gop-majoritys-last-words-but-her-emails/2018/12/14/25076412-ffcd-11e8-83c0-b06139e540e5_story.html

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Republican rural suicide - following California Republican
Party

 https://www.nationalreview.com/2018/12/conservative-message-to-residents-metropolitan-areas-must-improve/

 https://slate.com/news-and-politics/2018/12/wisconsin-power-grab-gop-urban-vs-rural-voters.html

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/are-republicans-abandoning-democracy/2018/12/09/8ad0b278-fa62-11e8-8c9a-860ce2a8148f_story.html

Who's paying for it?

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/09/opinion/wisconsin-republicans-walgreens-campaign-finance.html

Democrats don't be like Republicans!

 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-10/pelosi-s-top-job-in-2019-referee-fights-between-rival-democrats

 https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/09/politics/james-comey-donald-trump-2020

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Bannon's right about one thing

“The president can’t trust the GOP to be there when
it counts . . . They don’t feel any sense of duty or
responsibility to stand with Trump.”

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/siege-warfare-republican-anxiety-spikes-as-trump-faces-growing-legal-and-political-perils/2018/12/08/679b785a-fa59-11e8-863c-9e2f864d47e7_story.html

Of course most members of Congress are self-serving
opportunists - just like Trump - and won't sail against
the wind for long.     The Congressional equivalent of
the Judean People's Front Crack Suicide Squad  that will
go down with the Trump ship are the ideologue members in
the Freedom Caucus and elsewhere whose personalities are
least like Trump.

So probably most Republicans in Congress would secretly
prefer that Trump be impeached and convicted as quickly as
possible so they can get back to promoting a reactionary
agenda under President Pence and regain control of Congress
in 2020.     But they can't say that, lest they fall in
the 2020 Republican primaries to true Trumpists.

And speaking of the 2020 primaries, that is probably the
best time for Democrats to pursue impeachment, even if
conviction fails in the Senate.     By forcing Republican
senators to take a stand for or against conviction,
the Democrats line those Republicans up for execution,
either in the primaries or in the general election.
Ideally Democrats would run the impeachment hearings
from the first caucuses in February through the election
in November.  Maybe they could outsource that job to Trey
Goudy.  The Democrats will have their own primary issues,
though, if it becomes uncertain whether Trump or Pence or
somebody else is going to be the Republican candidate -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2018/11/30/democrats-should-consider-what-would-happen-if-trump-doesnt-run-in-2020

Republican  careers and personal integrity would have
better outlooks if they'd put some effort into getting
ranked-choice voting instead of caucuses and primaries.

 https://www.fairvote.org/

In the meantime Democrats can study how the Saudis,
Koreans, Russians, and Chinese turn Trump toward their ends
- give him some token concessions for a big photo op in
conjunction with signing something that is substantially
what Democrats want.    That's something that might not
work as well with President Pence.

Trump should consider that if he gets the nomination
in 2020, runs, and loses, then there will be nobody to
pardon him.      Better to cut a deal for a pardon from
Pence before then.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/is-the-gop-the-law-and-order-party-not-so-much/2018/12/10/b646336e-fcc0-11e8-ad40-cdfd0e0dd65a_story.html

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Today's news

GWH Bush and ADA

 https://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-skelton-george-hw-bush-americans-with-disabilities-act-20181206-story.html

Republican self destruction - the California model goes
national

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-is-a-political-vampire/2018/12/06/e73c7da6-f988-11e8-8c9a-860ce2a8148f_story.html

Some conservatives conserved their self-respect, but for
how long?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2018/12/07/weekly-standard-may-be-teetering-its-anti-trumpism-is-model-standing-firm-principle/

It looks like the Supreme Court won't extend the doctrine
of double jeopardy for overlapping state and Federal
prosecutions - with applications to civil rights and to
the fate of Trump's cronies

 https://www.apnews.com/1ab171085260482a9c8826b26e7cc945

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Today's news

Hard to be optimistic about climate

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/health-science/a-kind-of-dark-realism-why-the-climate-change-problem-is-starting-to-look-too-big-to-solve/2018/12/03/378e49e4-e75d-11e8-a939-9469f1166f9d_story.html

Hard to be optimistic about privacy - anybody remember
Vance Packard?

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/05/opinion/google-facebook-privacy.html

Hard to be optimistic about Eurozone finance

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/05/opinion/eu-italy-debt-crisis.html

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More reflections on the Bush Sr era -

The end of the new world order

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/05/us/politics/george-bush-cold-war.html

Evangelicals vs Republican establishment

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2018/12/05/how-george-hw-bush-enabled-rise-religious-right

There's always a ruling elite.    That's not bad if they
take their noblesse oblige seriously

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/05/opinion/george-bush-wasps.html

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Today's news

why does an inverted yield curve matter?

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/04/business/yield-curve-recession-stock-market.html

deregulation - cfpb

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/how-trump-appointees-curbed-a-consumer-protection-agency-loathed-by-the-gop/2018/12/04/3cb6cd56-de20-11e8-aa33-53bad9a881e8_story.html

deregulation - early end to electric vehicle subsidies

 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-12-03/trump-aide-kudlow-calls-for-end-of-electric-vehicle-subsidies

who needs the rest of the world if they're not serving
the Trump administration's interests?

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/04/world/europe/pompeo-brussels-speech.html

hacking the republicans

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/12/04/us/politics/national-republican-congressional-committee-hack.html

 https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/04/exclusive-emails-of-top-nrcc-officials-stolen-in-major-2018-hack-1043309

romanticizing the confederacy - a hobby of one group of
Trump supporters

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/magazine/wp/2018/11/28/feature/the-confederacy-was-built-on-slavery-how-can-so-many-southern-whites-still-believe-otherwise

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Today's news

GHW Bush was right the first time about supply side
economics -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-hw-bush-was-the-last-of-his-kind--a-republican-who-didnt-believe-in-voodoo-economics/2018/12/03/25aa090a-f740-11e8-8c9a-860ce2a8148f_story.html

Of course the Republicans were right, they were just
reported wrong by the fake news media.     What they
really meant was that billionaire campaign donations pay
for themselves in billionaire tax cuts, which has been
unquestionably proven over and over.

Republicans were also right about voter fraud -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/north-carolina-election-fraud-investigation-centers-on-operative-with-criminal-history-who-worked-for-gop-congressional-candidate/2018/12/03/7b270a90-f6aa-11e8-8c9a-860ce2a8148f_story.html

In other news, witness tampering is a crime for everybody
else -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/12/03/trumps-latest-tweets-cross-clear-lines-experts-say-obstruction-justice-witness-tampering

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Remembering George H W Bush

How Republicans went wrong

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-hw-bush-the-anti-trump/2018/12/01/d7a3dc22-f591-11e8-bc79-68604ed88993_story.html

Things Bush got right and wrong

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/george-hw-bushs-prudence-was-a-laugh-line-it-was-also-his-strength/2018/12/01/6440f81a-f52c-11e8-bc79-68604ed88993_story.html

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/book-party/wp/2018/12/01/feature/the-memoir-i-wish-george-h-w-bush-had-written

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Today's news 

election - 2020
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/stop-the-bidding-this-democratic-presidential-candidate-is-about-to-clear-the-field/2018/11/30/f7f31530-f4cc-11e8-aeea-b85fd44449f5_story.html

climate - fire
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/national/how-they-survived-owners-of-the-few-homes-left-standing-around-paradise-calif-took-critical-steps-to-ward-off-wildfires/2018/11/30/db323782-f34b-11e8-80d0-f7e1948d55f4_story.html

technology - data security
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/11/30/marriott-discloses-massive-data-breach-impacting-million-guests

economics - income inequality
 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/11/30/surprisingly-high-number-americans-getting-absolutely-no-raises

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neo-con vs neo-cons

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-gop-is-now-the-party-of-neo-confederates/2018/11/25/d5d9dd88-f109-11e8-bc79-68604ed88993_story.html

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Expect more dirt in your future -

it's a growth industry.

Some think the Democrats were wasting their time before
the election focusing on real issues that actually affect
voters.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/gop-war-room-blasts-endless-stream-of-criticism-at-democrats-with-warren-its-latest-target/2018/10/18/ffe1c0bc-d216-11e8-8c22-fa2ef74bd6d6_story.html

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/21/technology/definers-public-affairs-tim-miller.html

 https://www.nbcnews.com/politics/justice-department/roger-stone-associate-jerome-corsi-says-he-negotiating-plea-agreement-n939501

Roger Stone didn't invent this stuff but he is a
self-proclaimed master.     Maybe that's a good enough
resume to get a Freedom Medal -

 https://www.opensecrets.org/news/2018/11/miriam-adelson-gets-presidential-medal-of-freedom/

But Newt might think it belongs to him -

 https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2018/11/newt-gingrich-says-youre-welcome/570832/

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Left behind - Trump country and East Germany

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/19/opinion/economy-trump-red-blue-states.html

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/11/18/are-trump-voters-better-off-than-they-were-two-years-ago-especially-compared-to-clinton-voters/

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/11/19/why-did-trumps-lies-fail-so-badly-important-new-data-provides-a-clue/

 https://www.brookings.edu/research/countering-the-geography-of-discontent-strategies-for-left-behind-places/

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“Trump Is Right About Nationalism"

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/hes-evolving-once-a-sunny-conservative-rubio-goes-all-in-on-trumpism/2018/11/18/16b62e4c-e9e9-11e8-bbdb-72fdbf9d4fed_story.html

Pitch defileth another hand.

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Pitch defileth the hand that toucheth it

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/17/opinion/mattis-border-trump.html

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Haven’t they learned that the president always gets the
last laugh?

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/17/opinion/sunday/trump-bankers-fraud.html

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Can you finish your term paper before the end of the term?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/house-republicans-to-subpoena-comey-lynch-in-probe-of-fbi-and-doj/2018/11/16/c1c2fa48-e9d7-11e8-b8dc-66cca409c180_story.html

They'll try -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/house-judiciary-committee-subpoenas-comey-lynch/2018/11/22/45b69b46-ee76-11e8-8679-934a2b33be52_story.html

Precedents - "Everybody thought Hillary Clinton was
unbeatable, right? But we put together a Benghazi special
committee"

 https://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/article/2015/oct/07/context-what-kevin-mccarthy-said-about-hillary-cli/

What's Trey Gowdy's conclusion after basing his entire
career investigating Benghazi? - “I don’t have a lot
to show for the last seven years.”

 https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trey-gowdy-i-dont-have-a-lot-to-show-for-the-last-seven-years-2018-04-08

Fortunately the Republicans have only two months left to
show not a lot for.

==

The new Republican leader does seem to have a Malaprop
problem -

 https://www.jta.org/2018/10/24/top-headlines/house-majority-leader-kevin-mccarthy-deletes-tweet-saying-george-soros-tom-steyer-michael-bloomberg-buying-years-elections

Or maybe it's just a Trump problem.   But nobody seems to
mind much in Bakersfield, which owes a lot to big ag and
big oil - Trump country.   McCarthy just got re-elected
by a vote of 118106 to 63656.

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Fixing DOJ

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/think-matthew-whitaker-is-a-hack-hes-one-of-many/2018/11/16/5efbf47c-e8f7-11e8-b8dc-66cca409c180_story.html

His charitable work is interesting too -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/investigations/conservative-nonprofit-with-obscure-roots-and-undisclosed-funders-paid-matthew-whitaker-12-million/2018/11/20/25ff987e-e9db-11e8-bd89-eecf3b178206_story.html

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The present makes the past look better

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/13/opinion/al-gore-trump.html

 https://www.desmoinesregister.com/story/opinion/columnists/2018/05/18/george-w-bush-approval-rating-donald-trump-barack-obama/616969002/

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Two Republicans about the future

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/13/opinion/a-wake-up-call-for-the-gop.html

"young soccer moms and longtime Republican voters
alike don’t want to condone behavior that is counter to
what they’ve taught their children."

The rest of the party seems to have forgotten about that.
And about Theodore Roosevelt.

Lessons for Democrats too -

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/13/opinion/republicans-suburban-voters-2020.html

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First president to have foreign trademarks?

 https://www.apnews.com/0a3283036d2f4e699da4aa3c6dd01727

He's not the first president to owe money to foreign
bankers - Jefferson did all his life.

 https://www.marketwatch.com/story/trump-still-owes-lenders-including-deutsche-bank-as-much-as-480-million-2018-05-16

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Marbury v Madison in doubt??    In the Justice Dept??

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/matthew-whitaker-is-a-crackpot/2018/11/08/69e8e190-e395-11e8-8f5f-a55347f48762_story.html

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Winners and losers and Felix of Schwarzenberg

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/america-has-shingles-a-divided-congress-could-be-the-cure/2018/11/07/2b183132-e2b9-11e8-b759-3d88a5ce9e19_story.html

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/archive/opinions/1999/09/03/the-schwarzenberg-principle/e4826f8d-b8d2-4e10-9309-411c241c26e5

The Russians got even with Austria by erecting a hideous
monument to the Red Army and putting a requirement to keep
it into the Austrian State Treaty of 1955 -

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Soviet_War_Memorial_(Vienna)

But the Austrians made the best of the situation  by
surrounding it with fountains to obscure it from as many
directions as possible -

"glücklich ist, wer vergisst, was doch nicht zu
ändern ist"

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didn't know anything, didn't do anything, but don't want
to testify under oath

And the Russians say the same thing!

Sounds like a dry run for defense of Roger Stone and then
Donald Trump.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/public-safety/roger-stone-associate-challenges-muellers-special-counsel-appointment/2018/11/08/ac7305f6-e1db-11e8-8f5f-a55347f48762_story.html

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2020 electoral vote: D 289-324 R 249-214 - AZ FL IA MI
PA WI

One way to project the 2020 electoral vote is to add up the
Democratic and Republican votes in the 2018 House races,

 https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2018/11/06/us/elections/results-${statename}-elections.html

and use that as a proxy for the popular vote and award
electoral votes on that basis for each state - except
Maine and Nebraska, which are a bit more complicated.
And don't forget DC, whose three electoral votes always
go Democratic.

It's not an exact projection, because voters don't
always vote for both President and for Congressional
Representative - votes for President count in 2020 but
votes for Congressional Representative are what we got
in 2018.

Some districts require special treatment because they
can't be used to reliably project presidential vote.
For instance, uncontested candidates, multiple candidates
from the same party, candidates running as independent, and
districts where third party and independent votes are more
numerous than the difference between the Democratic and
Republican votes.     There were 18 uncontested elections
and 33 other special cases in 2018.  Several approaches
are possible:

* Ignore - ignore 2018 special case districts when
projecting 2020 electoral college results.  * President -
replace 2018 special case district results by corresponding
2016 presidential results in each district from

 https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2012/11/19/1163009/-Daily-Kos-Elections-presidential-results-by-congressional-district-for-the-2012-2008-elections

* Substitute - If there are no Democratic candidates,
use the sum of third-party and independent votes for the
Democrats; correspondingly if there are no Republican
candidates.  In other special cases, where there are
neither Republicans nor Democrats (uncontested) or
both Republicans and Democrats (but third parties or
independents might change the result), use the 2016
presidential results.

Finally, not all the votes are counted yet and there
could be some adjustments which are likely to affect
the individual House races but less likely to affect the
projected electoral outcome.  There's always the chance
of programming bugs.

To validate the methodology, applying it to 2016 data

 https://ballotpedia.org/United_States_House_of_Representatives_elections,_2018

produced a projected 2016 electoral vote of D 233, R 305.
The actual 2016 electoral vote was 232 for Clinton,
and 304 or 306 for Trump, depending on how you count the
two Republican Electors that declined to vote for him.
So that's pretty close - maybe closer than it deserves,
because in 48 states and DC, very small differences in
popular vote swing all a state's electoral votes one way
or another.

The projected electoral college results are * Ignore     -
D 289 R 249 electoral votes; D 22 R 26 delegations; IA MI
NC PA * President  - D 324 R 214 electoral votes; D 21 R 26
delegations; AZ FL IA MI PA WI * Substitute - D 324 R 214
electoral votes; D 21 R 26 delegations; AZ FL IA MI PA WI

That's quite a variation.  The states listed are
those that flipped from the 2016 presidential vote.
The "delegations" are the counts of who controls
state delegations in the House of Representatives; that
comes into play if the Electoral College doesn't have
a majority:

 https://history.house.gov/Institution/Origins-Development/Electoral-College/

States that are evenly split between Democrat and
Republican wouldn't count.

The states and electoral votes that flipped from 2016
were Arizona - 11, Florida - 29, Iowa - 6, Michigan -
16, Pennsylvania - 20,  and Wisconsin - 10.  Arizona,
Iowa, Michigan, Pennsylvania, and Wisconsin each had one
special district.   Florida had five.  A detailed log is at

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/electoral-projection.html

Of course the actual 2020 electoral vote might have
something to do with what Trump does between now and then,
and with who the Democrats nominate, but it will have a
lot more to do with the timing of the next, long overdue,
recession, and whether we stumble into any more endless
wars.  But the projection is encouraging.

2018 election data from nytimes.com as of 12 Nov.  It will
get updated with later data.  2016 election data from
dailykos.com.

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All they needed was a leader -

who would faithfully follow their lead

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/04/us/politics/far-right-internet-trump.html

And now they're mainstream.       And acting on it.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/midterms-test-whether-republicans-not-named-trump-can-win-by-stoking-racial-animosity/2018/11/04/bb5f00ac-e059-11e8-ab2c-b31dcd53ca6b_story.html

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/us-militia-groups-head-to-border-stirred-by-trumps-call-to-arms/2018/11/03/ff96826c-decf-11e8-b3f0-62607289efee_story.html

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/11/04/racist-magical-negro-robo-call-oprah-targets-stacey-abrams-georgia-governors-race/

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Gary Hart looks back

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/02/opinion/sunday/trump-hart-presidency.html

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/politicians-sex-lives-used-to-be-off-limits-one-scandal-changed-everything/2018/11/07/2d9cf4ce-c7f2-11e8-b1ed-1d2d65b86d0c_story.html

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Alt-right classics

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/guess-whos-championing-homer-radical-online-conservatives/2018/11/02/af3a49f6-dd40-11e8-85df-7a6b4d25cfbb_story.html

A lot of it is the same genre as "slavery was in the
Bible so it must be OK."

One of the things that makes a great work of art is its
ability to reflect back to viewers in many times, places,
and conditions in a way that suggests new ideas to the
viewer.      Different viewers get different ideas.

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He always tells the truth - when he can

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/when-i-can-i-tell-the-truth-trump-pushes-back-against-his-peddling-of-falsehoods/2018/11/01/e8278d68-ddbe-11e8-85df-7a6b4d25cfbb_story.html

Must be the mainstream media that are forcing him to lie
constantly -

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/01/opinion/republican-party-lies.html

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The armed left

It got the right interested in gun control 50 years ago.
Maybe it will again.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/02/opinion/socialist-left-guns-nra-trump.html

Meanwhile, Democratic candidates who used to be quiet
about gun control are now proud of their "F"
ratings from the NRA.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/04/us/politics/gun-control-candidates-election.html

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Mueller still interested in Stone -

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/11/01/us/politics/roger-stone-trump-campaign-mueller-wikileaks.html

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/mueller-probes-roger-stones-interactions-with-trump-campaign-and-timing-of-wikileaks-release-of-podesta-emails/2018/10/30/33052472-db89-11e8-85df-7a6b4d25cfbb_story.html

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/717331408611381

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History of the social safety net

Social security - Republicans mostly voted in favor -

 https://www.ssa.gov/history/tally.html

Medicare -  Republicans opposed in the Senate, split in
the House -

 https://www.ssa.gov/history/tally65.html

Obamacare - No Republican votes

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patient_Protection_and_Affordable_Care_Act#Legislative_history

even though it was based on Mitt Romney's popular
Masscare -

 http://www.nbcnews.com/id/44854320/ns/politics-decision_2012/t/white-house-used-mitt-romney-health-care-law-blueprint-federal-law/#.W9fGV5xRf0M

If you want to see how it adds up -

 https://www.usgovernmentspending.com/federal_budget_detail_2017bs22017n_0010

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Where the new Supreme Court might like to go -

right back to 1787.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/23/opinion/supreme-court-brett-kavanaugh-trump-.html

Newt has an even more radical idea - judiciary as
subordinate to executive

 https://www.vox.com/policy-and-politics/2018/10/26/18026690/newt-gingrich-kavanaugh-trump-tax-returns

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It was never a secret!

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/opinions/wp/2018/10/18/mitch-mcconnell-can-explain-what-he-meant-about-cutting-social-security/

It's been known that there is a problem with entitlements
- the entitled class is growing faster than the funding
class.

 https://www.ssa.gov/policy/docs/ssb/v70n3/v70n3p111.html

 https://www.cbpp.org/research/social-security/policy-basics-understanding-the-social-security-trust-funds

At some point, either benefits get reduced or taxes get
increased.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Commission_on_Fiscal_Responsibility_and_Reform

While almost all politicians want to kick that can down the
road and out of sight, McConnell had the brilliant insight
to cut taxes to make it worse, just before the Democrats
regain control of Congress.      Then in a reprise of his
role as minority leader, he can blame the Democrats for
the problem while making sure that no reasonable solution
gets through the Senate.      That way the Republicans can
keep the issue alive until they get control of Congress
again, and then conveniently forget about it again until
the Democrats regain control.

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We learn by making mistakes

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/10/16/navarrette-why-i-feel-bad-that-i-said-this-journalist-and-filmmaker-should-be-deported/

It's no sin to make a mistake.     The sin is to refuse
to admit it, refuse to fix it, refuse to learn from it.

Unless, of course, your model of moral virtue is Roy Cohn -

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roy_Cohn

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McConnell's come to the sad conclusion -

we'll have to reduce the social safety net to pay for
billionaire tax cuts.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/mcconnell-calls-deficit-very-disturbing-blames-federal-spending-dismisses-criticism-of-tax-cut/2018/10/16/a5b93da0-d15c-11e8-8c22-fa2ef74bd6d6_story.html

But he wants the Democrats to take the lead on fiscal
responsibility because the Trumpists reject the notion
out of hand.

At times he can be remarkably candid -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/10/18/what-mitch-mcconnell-is-up-to-is-even-worse-than-democrats-say/

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Something remarkable happened that got overlooked

Susan Collins' staff admitted she made a mistake

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/10/09/susan-collinss-wrong-claim-planned-parenthood-supreme-court-justices/

This sounds like a small deal, but it is really remarkable,
because Republican politicians now mostly take their lead
from Trump, who was trained by Roy Cohn, who taught -
if you make a mistake, deny it and shout it again twice
as loud.      Never give an inch - punch back instead.
Trump belittles Al Franken for folding up like a wet rag -

 http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/opinion/zorn/ct-franken-s-folly-owning-up-and-stepping-down-20181008-story.html

Instead of being a fighter like Kavanaugh.

So the penultimate Trumpian heresy - admitting a mistake.
True Trumpists would never do that because everything they
say is a true reflection of how they feel.

And the ultimate Trumpian heresy - admitting that there is
an objective external reality against which the validity
of one's feelings can be measure.       Trump and all
his populist fascist "strong leader" friends
fiercely reject that principle - it's all relative anyway,
so how can one truth be truer than another?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trumps-presidency-is-one-giant-act-of-trolling/2018/10/10/d6aa4632-cbe6-11e8-920f-dd52e1ae4570_story.html

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/10/10/who-drew-it-trump-asks-of-dire-climate-report-appearing-to-mistrust-91-scientific-experts/

Another point of view is that there is no sin in making an
error.    That's how we learn.   The sin is denying it or
failing to correct it.      But leadership and lies seem to
be inextricably linked - call it "salesmanship" -

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#leadership

==

So perhaps the Democrats virulently attacking Collins
should save their ammunition for worthier targets -
especially those running this year.  Most Republicans
in Congress have converted completely to unrepentant
unreconstructed Trumpists.

 https://www.politico.com/story/2018/10/09/collins-kavanaugh-2020-maine-885938

In any case, the voters in Maine will have the final say.

==

Speaking of Roy Cohn - fun fact - or considering the
source, fun claim - According to Roger Stone, Cohn's
"absolute goal was to die completely broke and owing
millions to the IRS. He succeeded in that."      At
the rate Trump is going, he will outdo his master -

 https://nypost.com/2018/10/02/new-york-state-launches-probe-into-trumps-taxes-after-bombshell-report/

NYC is also looking into the matter.    President Pence's
pardon power for Trump does not extend to civil matters
nor to state criminal matters.       The Federal criminal
statute of limitations has expired for the years the NYT
investigated, but Federal civil recovery of back taxes
and penalties is still possible, and now there will be
renewed interest in more recent tax years for which the
statute of limitations has not expired.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/after-selling-off-his-fathers-properties-trump-embraced-unorthodox-strategies-to-expand-his-empire/2018/10/08/2179a12e-c806-11e8-9b1c-a90f1daae309_story.html

And renewed curiosity about Trump's relationship to
Deutsche Bank and other foreign interests.

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The twin pillars of Republican political power -

are campaign finance by dark money and voter suppression,
especially by gerrymandering.      These could be
undermined judicially by unfriendly courts.    Trump might
not get any more chances to appoint friendly justices,
so McConnell was not going to let this chance slip away
no matter what.   Republican politicians and major donors
are in agreement about that.

Everything else depends on that.      From their point of
view, reproductive rights are not a critical issue for
maintaining power, but a valuable issue for revving up
the base and keeping it distracted from other things like
billionaire tax reform and undoing ACA and entitlements.

 https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/elections/2018/10/06/brett-kavanaugh-mcconnell-confirmation-gop-surge/1549762002/

Knowing that sooner or later he's going to be minority
leader again, McConnell keeps his eye on the prize
of packing the Supreme Court to protect dark money and
gerrymandering, to keep Congress and the state legislatures
full of uncompromising ideologues, so even Constitutional
amendments can't be passed to undo his handiwork.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mitch-mcconnell-is-winning-the-long-game/2018/05/30/99b81818-6371-11e8-a768-ed043e33f1dc_story.html

 https://www.amazon.com/Long-Game-Memoir-Mitch-McConnell/dp/0399564101

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For every action, a  reaction?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-hidden-silver-lining-if-kavanaugh-is-confirmed/2018/10/05/fc2d7fb6-c8ce-11e8-b2b5-79270f9cce17_story.html

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Win some, lose some

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2018/10/04/daily-202-how-senate-republicans-could-win-the-battle-and-the-war-on-kavanaugh/5bb50b311b326b7c8a8d17f3/

Looks like winsome Mitch McConnell was right after all -
a bitter partisan fight over Kavanaugh was good for his
job security - Trump is polling better in the races that
decide control of the Senate next year.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/i-am-listening-to-you-manchin-under-pressure-as-the-lone-democratic-holdout-on-kavanaugh/2018/10/04/990e8288-c7f0-11e8-b2b5-79270f9cce17_story.html

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/senate-races-move-right-house-races-move-left-in-political-fallout-from-kavanaugh-confirmation-fight/2018/10/05/74372af2-c811-11e8-b1ed-1d2d65b86d0c_story.html

The only way it could have been better would be if it were
even closer to the election - the excited Republican base
might cool down if it had time to think about who Trump
really is

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/02/us/politics/donald-trump-wealth-fred-trump.html

and what the Republicans really want to do about medical
care, taxes, and entitlements.      Indeed, some Republican
strategists think it would be advantageous in the Senate
races, at least, if Democrats succeeded in derailing the
nomination -

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/us/politics/trump-kavanaugh-midterm-elections.html

With  a month until the election, there's time for at least
three or four more scandals and crises that might affect
Republican or Democratic turnout.  Democratic reaction
to these scandals and crises should be targeted at the
persuadable independent voters in the middle rather than
the ideological base - don't make the same mistake as
Trump, putting all his energy into revving up his shrinking
base and no energy into expanding it.

It's hard to tell who will benefit from talk about
impeaching Kavanaugh later -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/10/04/if-kavanaugh-is-confirmed-impeachment-could-follow-heres-how/

 https://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2018/10/03/democratic-house-impeach-kavanaugh-220921

Over on the House side - not McConnell's problem so much.
Just about everybody concedes that the Democrats will
get control.      They're already drafting their subpoenas.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/us/politics/kavanaugh-republicans-midterms.html

 https://www.politico.com/story/2018/09/14/gop-midterms-retirements-house-823327

Mitch can't do much about that, but he can hope that
the Democrats will jump into ideological fratricide on
the Republican model.    Even if the House passes any
legislation, McConnell can keep the Senate from passing
it, even if the Democrats get control by a vote or two -
standing in the doorway and blocking up the hall are what
he does best.     He knows that one day soon Trump will
thank him for preserving the filibuster.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#filibuster

Knowing that sooner or later he's going to be minority
leader again, McConnell keeps his eye on the prize
of packing the Supreme Court to protect dark money and
gerrymandering, to keep Congress and the state legislatures
full of uncompromising ideologues, so even Constitutional
amendments can't be passed to undo his handiwork.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mitch-mcconnell-is-winning-the-long-game/2018/05/30/99b81818-6371-11e8-a768-ed043e33f1dc_story.html

 https://www.amazon.com/Long-Game-Memoir-Mitch-McConnell/dp/0399564101

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November 7, 2018 - a day of reckoning

After the election, both Democrats and Republicans will
have to figure out who they are.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/04/opinion/trump-kavanaugh-midterms-democrats-republicans.html

For Republicans, it's easy to make a case that win or
lose, the Republican Party is replaced by the Trump Party.
There's no conceivable path to any other 2020 Republican
nominee than Trump.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/monkey-cage/wp/2018/10/02/no-the-republican-party-is-not-the-party-of-trump-this-new-survey-finds/

55% of Republicans can be described as Trump Republicans;
they'll be thrilled by the replacement.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/03/opinion/the-trump-circus.html

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/trump.html#Second%20Trump%20Constituency

45% are non-Trump Republicans.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/trump.html#First%20Trump%20Constituency

They'll have to figure out how to live the rest of their
political lives.

==

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/magazine/wp/2018/10/02/feature/will-the-democrats-wake-up-before-2020/

Democrats have less of an issue - an ongoing debate about
slow progressive change vs fast progressive change -
and correspondingly, how big a tent to have.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#conservative

 http://www.liberty-and-justice.net/

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How should the Democratic Party approach 2020?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/magazine/wp/2018/10/02/feature/will-the-democrats-wake-up-before-2020/

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Trump administration finds Federal overreach less
objectionable -

 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-10-02/fda-seizes-documents-at-headquarters-of-e-cigarette-maker-juul

At least when the target is in SF.

But the EPA is still charging ahead on deregulation -

 https://www.cbsnews.com/news/epa-says-little-radiation-may-be-healthy/

Likewise the Pentagon -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/2018/10/02/pentagon-walks-back-plan-withhold-cash-defense-contractors-after-pressure-lawmakers/

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Kavanaugh traded support from legal scholars for support
from the President and the President's base

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/10/03/brett-kavanaughs-anger-may-have-backfired/

That's not the usual tradeoff for judicial nominees.

The President added fuel to the fire -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/flake-says-trumps-mocking-of-ford-at-political-rally-was-kind-of-appalling/2018/10/03/286c3dba-c6f4-11e8-b1ed-1d2d65b86d0c_story.html

A philosopher views last week epistemologically -

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/10/03/opinion/kavanaugh-misogyny-epistemic-worlds.html

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Self restraint - the most important leadership quality -
and the most noticeable in its absence

Declaring that auto imports from Germany are a national
security threat - that is, however, negotiable?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/national-security/it-breeds-resistance-even-among-conservatives-trumps-use-of-presidential-power-causes-alarm/2018/09/29/1769991a-bdbf-11e8-b7d2-0773aa1e33da_story.html

Congress delegates excessive power to the executive because
it can't act.     The ultimate solution is to fix Congress.

 https://www.nolabels.org/

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Trump's ratings look good for four more years

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/29/sunday-review/trump-2020-reality-tv.html

By his own criterion, he's the most successful leader in
history, consistently having the highest viewer ratings.

Reality TV shows seem to be good for about six years,
so his time is up in 2022.

But if re-elected he will still be president in 2024!
Unless he's impeached by a Democratic Congress.

And how will he look in 100 years?       How many
Americans could tell you anything correct about Taft,
Wilson, Harding, Coolidge, or Hoover?

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The Trump administration doesn't have a problem with
Federal overreach as long as it's into urban, poor, or
Democratic areas

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/09/30/california-governor-signs-model-net-neutrality-bill/

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/technology/2018/09/24/future-g-mobile-data-could-hinge-battle-over-utility-pole-fees/

Rural, wealthy, or Republican areas are completely
different of course.

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What's funny about principled realism?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/trumps-un-speech-was-funny-his-worldview-is-even-funnier/2018/09/27/40e18d86-c286-11e8-a1f0-a4051b6ad114_story.html

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One could almost feel sorry for Republican senators up
for re-election this year

Vote for Kavanaugh, and lose the votes of anybody who
believed his accuser - especially educated women

Vote against Kavanaugh, and lose the votes of the Trump
base.

They got a feeling called the BLUES.      They might have
avoided this jam if they had at least heard Merrick Garland
when his turn came.     Then they might be debating Neil
Gorsuch right before the 2018 election, which might have
been a lot easier.

Looks at Flake's blues - and he's not even running again -

 https://www.idahostatejournal.com/news/local/mormon-women-s-group-calling-for-investigation-into-allegations-against/article_e6120a6f-408e-59c4-b232-eb3c26339be4.html

 http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-na-pol-congress-kavanaugh-vote-20180928-story.html

 http://www.foxnews.com/politics/2018/09/28/flakes-yes-on-kavanaugh-sparks-angry-backlash-from-democrats-activists.html

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/09/28/jeff-flake-stumbles-into-taking-stand/

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/jeff-flake-takes-center-stage-in-kavanaugh-drama--with-no-clear-final-act-in-sight/2018/09/28/dba15c96-c355-11e8-a1f0-a4051b6ad114_story.html

It's too bad that all this inconclusive back and forth
removes the focus from other real issues, such as - dark
money is the #1 problem of American politics - it funds #2,
#3, .... #infinity.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/09/13/how-brett-kavanaugh-could-help-create-an-era-of-rampant-corruption/

Actually, unlimited personal contributions to political
campaigns would be OK - as long as they were published
by donor and amount within 7 days.    The public needs to
know immediately who has been bought and by whom.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#corporate%20donation

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Bannon finds sympathetic audiences abroad

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/a-nationalist-abroad-stephen-bannon-evangelizes-trump-style-politics-across-europe/2018/09/25/4f47d046-c0de-11e8-be77-516336a26305_story.html

He won't admit that his brand of populist-fascism
inevitably leads... to leaders that throw away followers
like Bannon when they become inconvenient.      That's what
a strong leader does.     Just ask Ernst Röhm.

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Long_Knives

or Leon Trotsky

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leon_Trotsky

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Fascism is more a method of gaining and keeping power than
a specific ideology

 https://www.vox.com/2018/9/19/17847110/how-fascism-works-donald-trump-jason-stanley

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Who is really "the resistance" ?

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/21/opinion/sunday/resistance-kavanaugh-trump-protest.html

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We learn more from our mistakes than from our successes

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/09/21/strange-tale-about-why-bill-clinton-said-nafta-would-create-million-jobs/

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/716805341997321

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Honorable military service SHOULD be a fast track to
citizenship - especially for  critically-needed skills.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/19/us/army-mavni-immigrant.html

Especially at a time when recruiting American citizens is
difficult due to low unemployment.

 https://www.bloomberg.com/news/articles/2018-03-13/trump-s-army-buildup-confronts-headwinds-of-tight-labor-market

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Remarkable - 58% of Floridians have opinions about
something they know nothing about

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/outlook/2018/09/18/how-conspiracy-theories-spread-internets-darkest-corners/

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American Identity Crisis

It wasn't just economics?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/a-fresh-look-back-at-2016-finds-america-with-an-identity-crisis/2018/09/15/0ac62364-b8f0-11e8-94eb-3bd52dfe917b_story.html

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"We are, as a nation, better educated, more tolerant,
and more connected because of — not in spite of — the
convergence of the internet and public life. Partisanship,
religion, geography, race, gender, and other traditional
political divisions are giving way to a new standard —
wiredness — as an organizing principle for political
and social attitudes."

That was written about the time the internet financial
bubble burst.    It hasn't quite turned out as predicted.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/14/sunday-review/politics-disruption-media-technology.html

But that lesson was learned before... and then forgotten
by the time  the Fairness Doctrine was repealed.

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Not a model for a Trump autobiography

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/inside-john-kerrys-pursuit-of-virtue/2018/09/13/abe18f88-b786-11e8-94eb-3bd52dfe917b_story.html

We learn more from our mistakes than our successes.     The
first step is recognizing and acknowledging our mistakes.

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Roger Stone receives a well-deserved compliment

Even before the 2016 election, it seemed that the Trump
associates to watch were Manafort, Page, and Stone.
Manafort was right on the money, so to speak.     Page was
a disappointment - the Russians concluded he was too dumb
to even be a useful idiot.

That leaves Stone, so far unindicted and unsubpoenad.
That's a compliment to the effectiveness of his long
career, because the way organized crime investigations
work, the prosecutors start at the bottom on the most
vulnerable and easiest to convict, and work their way up.
Saving Stone for near the end suggests that the prosecutors
consider him to be the last rung before the top, and so
they are securing every bit of evidence and cooperation
before they knock on his door, because they expect to
have a lot to talk to him about, when that time comes,
and they'd like him to be motivated to cooperate rather
than resist.

In the meantime, while he's still a free man, the
investigators might be taking an active interest in where
he goes and who he sees and what he does, but he would
expect that and take precautions.    But eventually he'll
receive a well-deserved, all-expense-paid rest from his
dark career of dirty tricks, in a clean, well-lighted
place.

 https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2018/politics/mueller-roger-stone/index.html

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Stone

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What are the boundaries of a disaster?

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/13/opinion/trump-hurricane-maria-puerto-rico-disaster.html

Firefighters who are now sick after responding to the World
Trade Center after the Sept. 11 attacks are not victims?

Soldiers suffering PTSD should not to be counted among
the casualties of war?

Is the biggest victim of a disaster the president who
wasn't prepared and wasn't interested in anything more
than a photo-op?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/09/14/angry-about-trumps-cruelty-and-megalomania-towards-puerto-rico-you-have-recourse/

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The political purposes of language of classification

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/global-opinions/the-dark-history-behind-trumps-inflammatory-language/2018/06/22/54288982-7649-11e8-b4b7-308400242c2e_story.html

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Trump owes nothing to his predecessors, and hence nothing
to his successors, or so he thinks.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/retropolis/wp/2018/09/08/the-thin-skinned-president-who-made-it-illegal-to-criticize-his-office/

But Trump owes a fraternal debt to John Adams, a great
lawyer and patriot, though a lesser president, between
Washington and Jefferson.       Adams and Jefferson are
both seen in a better, earlier light in the musical 1776

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1776_(musical)

Adams, having no established precedents to guide  him,
misconstrued the personal deference to Washington as
deference to the office of president, and wondered why he
didn't get the same.    Now we know that the opposition
will dig up or make up dirt on any president - that's what
they pay opposition researchers to do.

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A/B marketing applied to politics -

or why political-scrapbook is a waste of time, even though
it's from Silicon Valley rather than Manhattan.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2018/09/13/what-jamie-dimon-and-other-new-yorkers-dont-grasp-about-washington-politics/

Later, Dimon had second thoughts -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/after-attacking-trump-jpmorgan-chief-now-says-the-president-has-done-pretty-good-with-economy/2018/09/16/20ffee50-b9b6-11e8-a8aa-860695e7f3fc_story.html

By the way, Facebook loves advertisers that experiment
with A/B marketing - and facilitates it.     More revenue
to Facebook.

A/B is the basis of an old Wall Street scam.     A broker
sends out a letter to 1000 prospects.  Half say to sell X
because it's going down.    Half say to buy X because it's
going up.  If X actually goes down, the broker throws away
the second half of his client list and sends a new letter
to 250 of the 500 left: sell Y because it's going down.
To the other 250: buy Y because it's going up.    After a
few more iterations he writes to the remaining clients
and points to his 100% accuracy and offers a chance
to buy in on the deal of a lifetime.    After they all
enthusiastically buy in and push the stock up, he shorts
the stock and finds a new list of 1000 prospects.

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If the student makes a mistake, it is up to the student
to correct it; if the professor makes a mistake, it is up
to the student to correct it.

NOT AT TRUMP U!     If the professor were to make a
mistake, and you, a student were to point it out.... YOU'RE
FIRED!

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/09/13/trump-really-hates-apologizing-for-misogyny-and-racism-new-reporting-explains-why/

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/never-give-an-inch-trump-keeps-touting-perceived-failures-as-successes/2018/09/12/12801b80-b6a9-11e8-94eb-3bd52dfe917b_story.html

There are no mistakes at Trump U - only BIG BEAUTIFUL
SUCCESS STORIES.

Like Puerto Rico -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2018/09/13/heckuva-job-trumpie-now-hes-denying-that-thousands-of-people-died-in-hurricane-maria/

etc...

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/715638752113980

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/715193368825185

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/716755022002353

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immigration - it's not just rapists sneaking in with
contraband steel and aluminum

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/13/us/census-foreign-population.html

Are folks in Trump country worried about the lack of
trained medical personnel willing to settle in their little
towns?      It's not going to be native-born Americans who
help out on that.      Or who help out on picking crops,
for that matter.

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Stick by Jeff Sessions because we're stuck with Jeff
Sessions

 https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/08/democrats-sessions-trump-attorney-general/568510/

Progressives and even centrist Democrats and Republicans
find a lot to not like in Jeff Sessions.      The Southern
Poverty Law Conference pointed out a speech he made to the
Alliance Defending Freedom, which the SPLC has classified
as a hate group, using the same criteria the Justice
Department uses.

 https://www.advocate.com/religion/2018/8/11/southern-poverty-law-center-has-message-bigot-jeff-sessions

But Sessions stood up for the integrity of the Justice
Department when it mattered.

 http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-trump-sessions-justice-department-20180823-story.html

And Trump will be president for two more years unless
impeached, and the most probable road to impeachment is
through the Mueller investigation.    Whenever Trump fires
Sessions for protecting the Mueller investigation, he'll
try to appoint somebody worse who will obey Trump's orders.
He'll probably try to do that between the election and the
new Congress, while he will still have a thin majority in
the Senate to confirm his new choice.    Otherwise Trump
will have to appoint an "acting" attorney general
who will serve for the rest of Trump's term.

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How will Anonymous explain this to his children?

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/09/11/opinion/anonymous-op-ed-republican-party-trump.html

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/713279962349859

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Two small steps toward a better political future

 http://www.latimes.com/politics/la-pol-sac-skelton-bob-shrum-mike-murphy-usc-politics-20180910-story.html

One step at a time is the way things get better.

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The heart of a salesman

If only Arthur Miller were here to write a play about it.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/trumps-top-economist-says-he-cant-explain-trumps-false-tweet-on-the-economy/2018/09/10/ef0a5f1a-b529-11e8-a2c5-3187f427e253_story.html

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/09/10/why-trumps-demand-for-credit-on-the-economy-is-getting-more-desperate/

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2018/09/10/trumps-promoters-have-no-good-answer-his-economic-falsehoods/

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At last, blame the boomers instead of the millenials

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/will-we-ever-escape-1968/2018/08/29/d55f53a0-abc3-11e8-b1da-ff7faa680710_story.html

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What does it take to visit the Oval Office?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/conspiracy-theorist-shares-oval-office-photo-with-trump/2018/08/24/8363548a-a816-11e8-a656-943eefab5daf_story.html

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Muslim Brotherhood a force for democracy?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/global-opinions/wp/2018/08/28/the-u-s-is-wrong-about-the-muslim-brotherhood-and-the-arab-world-is-suffering-for-it/

Accepting democracy means accepting democratic results
you don't like, as long as the essence of democracy is
preserved: recognition of and protection of rights of
minorities.

Why would the Trump administration encourage politicization
of religion in America and not elsewhere?

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Mueller better not be looking forward to a new career

New York commercial real estate?   Casino magnate?
Reality TV star?

Mueller couldn't be any of those things.    His personality
is all wrong.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/25/us/politics/robert-mueller-russia-investigation.html

Mueller is aware of what he owes his predecessors and what
he owes his successors.      Modesty and self-restraint
are his hallmarks.

The people on the other side of the court from his
prosecutors tend to have more of an "apres moi
le deluge" attitude: who cares what happens after
we're gone?

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The Republican Party is dead.   Long live the Trump Party!

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/25/opinion/sunday/corruption-donald-trump.html

They might as well bury the Republican Party with McCain.

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Coming soon to theatres near you - an interview with
the Devil!

A friend of the Devil is a friend of mine?

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/25/opinion/errol-morris-steve-bannon.html

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If prosecutors grant immunity, they expect something
worthwhile in return.

This is getting complicated -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-organization-executive-allen-weisselberg-who-allegedly-helped-arrange-hush-money-reimbursement-to-cohen-granted-immunity/2018/08/24/404ebdf2-a7b1-11e8-97ce-cc9042272f07_story.html

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/23/us/politics/david-pecker-immunity-trump.html

Gimme shelter!

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Trump's lasting achievement - an activist judiciary

His successor, even if it's Pence, won't be able to undo
one part of the Trump administration legacy.       That's
because Trump himself has had very little to do with it,
following the lead of McGahn and the Federalist Society
with very little thought of the consequences to Trump.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/22/magazine/trump-remaking-courts-judiciary.html

America has been there before - think Dred Scott, or FDR.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/22/magazine/when-the-supreme-court-lurches-right.html

The Federalist Society nominees are generally opposed
to reproductive rights, Obamacare, gerrymandering,
restrictions on dark money in politics, and Federal
regulation - positions completely opposite to the public's.

Just as a "states rights" veneer of
constitutional principle was understood to be code
for slavery, segregation, and voter suppression
in previous generations, so it's hard to interpret
the Federalist Society's "textualism" and
"originalism" as anything other than a veneer
of constitutional principle over a plain old reactionary
right-wing political agenda.

Trump probably could not define "textualism"
or "originalism" very accurately, but he
knows exactly what fires up his base - and it's not
constitutional principle.  Trumpists proudly point to
the remaking of the Federal judiciary as Trump's greatest
accomplishment, making up for all his other personal and
official deficits.     And they are certainly right that
it will have the biggest impact long into the future.

Don't like that future?     Register, inform yourself,
donate, vote for a different future.

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/696958633981992

What might be done differently?    One can imagine
constitutional amendments such as

* lifetime nominees (judiciary) require 2/3 approval in
the Senate

or

* (all) presidential nominees are automatically approved
90 days after submission to the Senate unless the Senate
votes disapproval by majority vote within that time

One can imagine a couple of possible outcomes to such
procedural changes

* more nominees are centrist rather than extremist

or

* no nominees are ever approved no matter how overworked
the courts and agencies become

The latter outcome would be expected unless partisanship is
reduced by changes to gerrymandering, voter suppression,
and dark money.      The Federalist Society is opposed to
all of those.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html

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Of course Wyoming likes Republican ranchers

Even if the other guy is endorsed by Trump and Trump Jr

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/primary-election-alaska-wyoming/2018/08/20/d6a275cc-a492-11e8-a656-943eefab5daf_story.html

Ranchers are suspicious of government and taxes, except
when it comes to grazing on public land.    Wyoming is
the least populous state.

With all the other news yesterday, one wonders how many
Republican candidates will still seek a Trump endorsement.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/22/us/politics/trump-cohen-impeachment.html

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The slippery slope of collaboration

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/18/opinion/the-slippery-slope-of-complicity.html

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There aren't any forgotten Americans in Plains

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/national/wp/2018/08/17/feature/the-un-celebrity-president-jimmy-carter-shuns-riches-lives-modestly-in-his-georgia-hometown/

No gilt either.

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Afghanistan or a carnival?

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/16/opinion/omarosa-trump-afghanistan.html

Endless sideshow distractions are the Trumpist preferred
tool.       We should be careful about playing his game
on his terms.

Indeed, why would one want to pay any attention to the
memoir of anybody who volunteered to serve in the Trump
campaign or the Trump administration?    How much more can
another self-serving opportunist add to the disclosures
of the previous ones?

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In some unknown future, on some strange and novel shore,
human beings just like us will adapt to a whole new world

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/16/opinion/climate-change-human-survival.html

Or we hope that there is some kind of unknown future
featuring human beings!

 http://www.liberty-and-justice.net/

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Environmental terrorists?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2018/08/15/ryan-zinke-blames-california-wildfires-environmental-terrorist-groups/

A lot of it is Smokey's (and Tojo's) fault, but Smokey
has changed his tune -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/08/15/was-smokey-bear-wrong-how-a-beloved-character-may-have-helped-fuel-catastrophic-fires/

At least in California, a lot of homes are lost because
more and more people are accepting the risk of building
in wildfire zones -

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/08/05/california-wildfires-its-a-people-problem/

but are not creating  "defensible space." That's
a risk you take if you like some cool shade on your home
in the summer.

 https://www.fema.gov/media-library-data/20130726-1652-20490-9209/fema_p_737_fs_4.pdf

Also in California, there's been a lot of trouble from
utilities not keeping power lines clear.

 https://www.npr.org/2018/06/08/618444388/pg-e-power-lines-blamed-for-northern-california-wildfires

Of course, the Trump administration's real goal is to
increase logging on public lands, especially wilderness
areas.    By definition, though, people don't live in
wilderness areas.    The effects of hotter dryer weather
vastly outweigh anything else.     More logging would
reduce watershed capability and dry out the forest faster.

Zinke knows better -

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/17/climate/zinke-california-fires.html

But he also knows the real Trump agenda is "what's
good for the billionaires?"

So among the real terrorists against the environment
- pride of place goes to the billionaires and their
supporters in the Trump administration.

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Is the Treasury Dept helping or hindering the Senate
Intelligence Committee investigation?

 https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/emmaloop/senate-intel-wants-to-follow-the-money-in-the-russia-probe

It's hard to tell from the outside.

On the House side, Devin Nunes and some of his pals want
to impeach Rod Rosenstein for being slow to comply with
the House Intelligence Committee investigation.

 http://thehill.com/homenews/house/401022-recording-reveals-nunes-saying-rosenstein-impeachment-would-complicate-supreme

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The Republican Party is now the Trump Party.

Your worth is measured by (unrequited) fidelity to Trump.
Like it or leave it.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/08/15/the-new-gop-litmus-test-defending-trump-at-his-absolute-worst/

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/book-party/wp/2018/08/15/i-read-six-sycophantic-pro-trump-books-and-then-i-read-omarosa/

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/693090527702136

Thus Republicans continue to choose their most obnoxious
candidates in the primaries - insuring that in the
general election, they get 100% of the Trump base and 0%
of everybody else.  This is good news for the Democratic
party.     After the general election, though -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trump-blames-gov-kasich-for-close-special-election-race-in-ohio/2018/08/13/ffb9a456-9ee0-11e8-83d2-70203b8d7b44_story.html

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/trump.html#Second%20Trump%20Constituency

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Attention women who support Trump!

The president has no patience for women who aren't up to
his standards

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/12/us/politics/trump-tweets-lisa-page-nellie-ohr.html

Consequently, there's nothing wrong with judging the
President by his appearance or by any other irrelevant
superficial aspect.

He might fare better on appearance than on substance.

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Fighting the last war - it's what generals do

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-chinese-threat-that-an-aircraft-carrier-cant-stop/2018/08/07/0d3426d4-9a58-11e8-b60b-1c897f17e185_story.html

And big expensive military systems are what billionaire
defense contractors like - so that's what the Trump
administration likes.

The Chinese army did human wave attacks in Korea.
They don't need to any more, if they can use cheap robot
wave attacks instead.

As might be expected, the Trump administration is more
concerned with Star Trek uniforms than actually dealing
with the central reality of the threats.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/pence-details-plan-for-creation-of-space-force-in-what-would-be-the-sixth-branch-of-the-military/2018/08/09/0b40b8d0-9bdc-11e8-8d5e-c6c594024954_story.html

Star junk might be a greater threat than star wars,
however -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/world/2018/08/10/trumps-proposed-space-force-could-worsen-earths-orbital-debris-problem/

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Will the next Speaker of the House encourage or accept
institutional change?

 http://www.rollcall.com/news/politics/speaker-race-come-supporting-rules-changes

 https://www.nolabels.org/

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There's more to winning than being against

Republicans maintained remarkable unity for years on
the basis of whatever Obama was for, they were against.
Then when they got control of the government, they
discovered that collectively they were not for much except
billionaire welfare tax cuts and deregulation and judicial
appointments.

Democrats should bear that in mind.    Getting the
Trumpists out of power is an essential goal, but then what?
Democrats need to cultivate a collective state of mind that
is a big enough tent to warrant their continuance in power.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/02/opinion/democrats-midterm-identity-crisis.html

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Started by a 400-pound teenager in his bedroom?

Could have been Jersey, could have been St Petersburg -
but no matter who started Q, it's perfect for Putin's
efforts to undermine American democracy by blurring the
distinction between truth and fiction.     Q might be
many contributors now - like Guccifer 2.0 - or Bourbaki.
Q's anti-semitism is right in line with Russian traditions.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/the-mystery-of-q-how-an-anonymous-conspiracy-monger-launched-a-movement-if-he-even-exists/2018/08/01/6d10f5b4-95a3-11e8-80e1-00e80e1fdf43_story.html

The blind faith among the adherents that somebody is going
to miraculously appear to save them reminds one of cargo
cults -

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cargo_cult

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Have there been too many postings on this page?

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/01/opinion/contributors/politics-cleanse.html

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If the President won't tether to reality, why should
his followers?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/08/01/we-are-q-a-deranged-conspiracy-cult-leaps-from-the-internet-to-the-crowd-at-trumps-maga-tour/

More on Qanon -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/lifestyle/style/as-the-bizarre-qanon-group-emerges-trump-rallies-go-from-nasty-to-dangerous/2018/08/01/063ed6f8-9585-11e8-a679-b09212fb69c2_story.html

 https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/qanon-conspiracy-real-life_us_5b54bbafe4b0b15aba8fe484

 https://www.thedailybeast.com/what-is-qanon-the-craziest-theory-of-the-trump-era-explained

It's the basest part of Trump's base -

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/trump.html#Second%20Trump%20Constituency

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I dream of things that are not, and say, yes they are!

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/you-know-what-they-say-bigfoot-big-tent/2018/07/31/120486f4-94f4-11e8-a679-b09212fb69c2_story.html

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Who pays for Medicare for All?

Medicare for All is a popular idea right now.     But any
specific plan for paying for it is a lot less popular.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/have-free-marketers-and-the-far-left-finally-found-something-they-can-agree-on/2018/07/31/6d1436ce-9504-11e8-80e1-00e80e1fdf43_story.html

It's coming, but it will be come slowly as the people
adjust to paying for it one way or another.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/08/02/republicans-for-big-government-socialism/

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The democratization of weapons of mass destruction

It's just a handgun now -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/07/31/in-last-minute-lawsuit-states-say-3-d-printable-guns-pose-national-security-threat/

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/controversial.html#second%20amendment

But can nuclear/chemical/biological weapons be far behind?

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox#It_is_the_nature_of_intelligent_life_to_destroy_itself

 http://www.liberty-and-justice.net/

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The rich get richer and the poor get distracted

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/politics/wp/2018/07/31/trumps-two-track-strategy-the-rich-get-richer-and-the-poor-get-distracted/

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/621380901539766

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/trump.html#Second%20Trump%20Constituency

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What are Trump's goals?

 https://www.kansascity.com/opinion/opn-columns-blogs/syndicated-columnists/article215460930.html

Trump has no interest in multilateral foreign policy -
agreements laboriously worked out by numerous anonymous
experts in diplomacy, politics, economics, and trade.
Just because this is the basis of American post-war
prosperity and security is no excuse!    If everybody wins
then nobody is THE winner.    So Trump rejects the general
concept and all the specific instances.

Trump likes bilateral negotiations because he thinks he
can be THE star, bringing home the bacon in deal after
brilliant deal.    It's not a deal unless there is a
WINNER and a LOSER!  Just because he hasn't come up
with any brilliant deals with anybody after two years,
and shows no signs of doing so in the next two years,
is no excuse!  You can't be THE star in a constellation
of many bright stars.  Trump doesn't have time or energy
or inclination to negotiate bilateral agreements with most
of the countries of the world.  Better to leave leadership
of Europe to Russia and of Asia to China.

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/677229025954953

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Even the Kochs don't trust Trump to do the right thing

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/koch-group-condemns-divisiveness-and-lack-of-leadership-in-washington/2018/07/29/314398c2-933f-11e8-a679-b09212fb69c2_story.html

They don't like being taken for granted -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2018/07/31/daily-202-inside-the-koch-strategy-to-spurn-squishy-republicans-in-key-senate-races/5b5fc7221b326b0207955e64/

Koch network members represent a diversity of conservative
viewpoints -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/a-total-joke-trump-lashes-out-at-koch-brothers-after-political-network-slams-white-house/2018/07/31/063a28ae-94ab-11e8-80e1-00e80e1fdf43_story.html

Perhaps they'd consider Pence a more reliable investment.

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Socialism in action?

It's always stimulating to read George Will, even if you
don't agree with him -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-could-teach-ocasio-cortez-a-thing-or-two-about-socialism/2018/07/27/f4672a2e-9102-11e8-bcd5-9d911c784c38_story.html

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Look at how Norwegians have enhanced the American language

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quisling

No wonder Trump wants more Norwegians here -

 https://www.vox.com/2018/1/11/16880750/trump-immigrants-shithole-countries-norway

But he might want to inquire about what the Norwegians
did about the original Quisling.

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Proudly following a great American tradition

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/25/opinion/republican-party-trump-know-nothings.html

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Know_Nothing

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Making America Great Again for Billionaires - do-nothing
Congress or do-wrong Executive?

Congressional Republicans are in a tough spot: on the one
hand, the Trump administration is reliably pushing a number
of traditional Republican values -

- Tax cuts to limit Federal power and thus benefit
billionaires

- Deregulation to limit Federal power and thus benefit
billionaires

- Reactionary judicial appointments to limit Federal power
and thus benefit billionaires

- Reducing legal immigration so that more immigrants
are illegal and thus more readily exploited - and thus
benefit billionaires

But as soon as he sees a foreign politician, Trump forgets
about traditional Republican values, and

- Undermines the alliances and allies that have been the
basis of American security since 1945

- Encourages our foes - those foes can readily see that
they will be treated better as foes than allies

- Undermines the free trade system that has been the basis
of American prosperity since 1945

These actions are bad for billionaires, and even worse for
everybody else.  What can the Republicans do?    Part of
the problem is that Congress over many years delegated a
lot of authority on matters like trade and international
relations to the President.     Often that was because the
do-nothing Congresses have been so seldom able to agree on
anything much more controversial than naming post offices.
It seemed better to let the executive branch take the lead,
with almost no effective bipartisan oversight.     And that
worked about as well as could be expected - until Trump
took over and proved that a do-wrong executive was even
worse than a do-nothing Congress.

So the time has come for Congress to revoke executive
powers in foreign affairs and international trade.  So far,
there have been timid non-binding resolutions like this
one -

 http://www.chicagotribune.com/news/nationworld/politics/ct-trump-tariffs-senate-resolution-20180711-story.html

But the Republican Congress needs to start binding Trump
abroad if they want to preserve their gains at home.

And the Democrats?    Keep talking about what the
Republicans are doing at home, and not doing abroad, and
pass declarations of no confidence in the president's
policies at the same tempo that Trump declares no
confidence in American institutions.

 http://www.no-confidence-vote.net/
 http://www.approve-or-expel.net/

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About George Soros

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/17/magazine/george-soros-democrat-open-society.html

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"Treason against the United States, shall consist
only in levying war against them, or in adhering to their
enemies, giving them aid and comfort.

The President, Vice President and all civil Officers
of the United States, shall be removed from Office on
Impeachment for, and Conviction of, Treason, Bribery,
or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors."

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/17/us/politics/trump-critics-treason-putin.html

It's time for Pence to act presidential if he's ever
going to.      There's reason to doubt that he can -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/post-partisan/wp/2018/07/17/the-helsinki-fiasco-showcases-pences-hypocrisy-once-again/

 https://www.nytimes.com/2016/09/09/us/politics/hillary-clinton-donald-trump-put
in.html

Pence has been a big disappointment in several ways but
not yet a treasonous or impeachable one.       He should
offer Trump the choice of resignation with a pardon,
25th amendment, or impeachment.

The purpose of offering a pardon for immediate resignation
is not because Trump deserves pardon, but because America
deserves to put Trumpism behind it as fast as possible.

Until today, it seemed unlikely that an impeachment attempt
would get very far in a Republican Congress.  However,
over the past two years, Trump has publicly insulted
or demeaned most prominent Republican politicians, so
if impeachment ever develops any bipartisan momentum,
Trump's fall will be astonishingly fast -

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/trumps-defense-of-putin-finds-few-supporters-in-congress/2018/07/16/2610b3a2-8914-11e8-8aea-86e88ae760d8_story.html

What will Mattis say and do?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/very-much-counter-to-the-plan-trump-defies-advisers-in-embrace-of-putin/2018/07/16/b2176bfe-8921-11e8-a345-a1bf7847b375_story.html

More  here -

 https://www.yahoo.com/entertainment/arnold-schwarzenegger-says-trumps-putin-news-conference-embarrassing-calls-little-fanboy-005652979.html

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/morning-mix/wp/2018/07/17/treason-in-helsinki-it-doesnt-hold-up/

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/662068057471050

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/621049838239539

 http://www.no-confidence-vote.net/

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Warning lights flashing - is it 9/10 yet?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/intel-official-cyber-threat-warnings-blinking-red/2018/07/13/53828500-86d9-11e8-9e06-4db52ac42e05_story.html

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/powerpost/paloma/daily-202/2018/07/16/daily-202-gop-senators-downplaying-russian-interference-shows-how-trump-has-co-opted-the-party/5b4bf2a71b326b1e646953c2

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It's amateur hour world-wide from now on

Who needs facts, experience, painstaking analysis, and
careful coordination?

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/13/opinion/brexit-conservatives-boris-trump.html

Next thing you know, it will be backyard steel furnaces -

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward#Backyard_furnaces

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Pardon me!

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/12/us/forrest-lucas-mike-pence-hammond-pardons.html

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/07/12/opinion/trump-and-the-return-of-divine-right.html

So much for the rule of law!

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About the Trump Party, formerly known as the Republican
Party of Lincoln and Theodore Roosevelt

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/look-what-crawled-out-from-under-trumps-rock/2018/07/11/06de2588-8544-11e8-9e80-403a221946a7_story.html

The Trump Party is truly a RINO, Republican-in-name-only.
The party formerly known as Republican quietly embraced
racists in 1968 as part of the Southern strategy

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/632774907067032

They were quiet about it because they wanted to add
the racists to their coalition without frightening away
other conservatives.    No more: now the embrace is loud
enough for everybody to hear - no excuses.         And who
expected to see the day that most Republican politicians
embrace Putin?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/ahead-of-putin-summit-trump-faults-us-stupidity-for-poor-relations-with-russia/2018/07/16/297f671c-88c0-11e8-a345-a1bf7847b375_story.html

Where do the former Republicans go who do not want to
embrace racism or Putin?

Can they get the former Republican Party to unequivocally
and irrevocably disavow racists and fascists?  Not likely,
so  any former Republican who does not want to be a
Trumpist needs to find a new home.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#conservative

Maybe it's time for more independents in American politics.
That requires dismantling some of the institutional
barriers to independent candidates.

 https://www.nolabels.org/ https://www.uniteamerica.org/

There are those on the left that advocate embracing
Trumpist tactics - hassling administration officials even
when they go out to dinner.       That seems to be the most
abject surrender to Trumpism - accepting its terms for
political conflict.      If we go low, they will go even
lower.     We have to go high, where they can not follow.

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Is Robert Mueller a principal or inferior officer?

The Supreme Court will likely have to decide about that
eventually:

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-says-muellers-appointment-was-unconstitutional-is-he-right/2018/07/11/4b8d5a3e-845c-11e8-8553-a3ce89036c78_story.html

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On confirming Trump's Supreme Court nominations...

as with many other major issues... no Democratic senators
should vote for Republican nominations or proposals unless
at least 30 Democratic senators do.

 http://www.get-to-sixty.net/

And for the particular case of Supreme Court nominations,
for which McConnell got rid of the supermajority
requirement - a move which he might come to regret next
year - all the Democratic senators should take the position
of voting against confirming any Supreme Court nominations
until Merrick Garland has been nominated and voted up
or down.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/kavanaugh-is-qualified-and-likable-so-was-merrick-garland/2018/07/11/9b528b44-8541-11e8-8553-a3ce89036c78_story.html

But assuming the Republicans will find somebody that they
can muster 51 votes for despite Democratic opposition,
it's instructive to read about Hugo Black.      He was (at
various different times) a KKK member, an FDR New Dealer,
and a strict constructionist.      Goes to show you never
can tell!

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugo_Black

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Goetterdaemmerung in real life....

Flattery can get Siegfried to kill the dragons that you
are not strong enough to kill yourself.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/putin-is-about-to-con-trump-in-helsinki-heres-how/2018/07/09/fb09ec9e-8393-11e8-8553-a3ce89036c78_story.html

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Amazing what you can buy for $5000 in Nevada...

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/after-nevada-gop-push-treasury-quietly-changed-policy-benefiting-one-county/2018/06/22/d142acfc-74c5-11e8-b4b7-308400242c2e_story.html

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Two conservatives tackle the question: do we need more
immigrants?

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/why-do-we-need-more-people-in-this-country-anyway/2018/06/21/4ee8b620-7565-11e8-9780-b1dd6a09b549_story.html

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/21/opinion/trump-immigration-reform.html

All wealthy western democracies are in the same boat:
because children are sources of expense rather than income
as in traditional subsistence agrarian economies, western
democracy families are having fewer children or none,
a trend worsened by income inequality.   So population
declines and gets older.     To maintain the previous
standard of living, immigrants are needed, both rocket
scientists and farmworkers.    The danger of immigrants
is not that they won't assimilate, but that they will
assimilate too well, expecting the same standard of living
for their children as natives.

But unlimited population growth is not possible, whether
native or immigrant, and at some point a stable or dynamic
equilibrium will evolve, and that will require a global
change in expectations.

 http://www.liberty-and-justice.net/

In the shorter term, mandatoryE-Verify for all employees
- starting with the Trump hotels and resorts - would
eliminate a lot of illegal immigration.

 https://www.e-verify.gov/

That would also eliminate a lot of labor, risking a major
depression, so they better not demand E-Verify without
figuring out a fair, legal,  and dignified way for guest
workers to participate in the work force.

But dealing with hard problems responsibly - whether
immigration, income inequality, deficit spending, ....
is unprofitable for politicians, who fear the results
either in the next primary or general election of both.
The Republicans NEED illegal immigration, both for economic
and political reasons:

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/democrats-may-be-walking-into-an-immigration-trap/2018/06/22/363f32d6-7590-11e8-b4b7-308400242c2e_story.html

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Trump's greatest legacy:

Dissolving the boundary between subjective feelings and
objective facts.    That's why his hard-core base will
never abandon him.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/22/opinion/trump-leach-lies-language.html

Another way of looking at it: the triumph of competitive
myth over cooperative parable:

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/21/opinion/marvel-video-games-religion.html

But competition in a world with increasing population with
increasing expectations and democratized weapons of mass
destruction has only one dead end, the Fermi Paradox:

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fermi_paradox

 http://www.liberty-and-justice.net/

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More new jobs created by the Trump administration

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/pence-turns-vps-office-into-gateway-for-lobbyists-to-influence-the-trump-administration/2018/06/14/75675bfa-6424-11e8-a69c-b944de66d9e7_story.html

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How things change in 11 years:

"In 2005, Republican National Committee chairman Ken
Mehlman formally apologized to the National Association for
the Advancement of Colored People (NAACP), a national civil
rights organization, for exploiting racial polarization
to win elections and ignoring the black vote."

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_strategy

Since embracing the Southern strategy, Republicans have
been careful not to alienate the racist part of their
base, while not alienating the rest of their supporters
either.    Like the Democrats until 1960, even the
non-racist Republicans knew that without the racists in
their coalition, they didn't have a winning proposition.
No more worries about the rest now:

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/06/13/trump-just-endorsed-an-apologist-for-white-supremacy-that-could-hurt-the-gop-this-fall/

And in Virginia:

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/virginia-politics/virginia-voters-go-to-the-polls-to-nominate-rep-comstock-challenger-gop-senate-hopeful/2018/06/11/b7c89e4e-6da4-11e8-bf86-a2351b5ece99_story.html

Former Republican Lt. Gov. Bill Bolling tweeted Tuesday
night: “I am extremely disappointed that a candidate
like Corey Stewart could win the Republican nomination for
U.S. Senate. This is clearly not the Republican Party I
once knew, loved and proudly served. Every time I think
things can’t get worse they do, and there is no end
in sight.”

That's because it's not the Republican Party any more.
From South Carolina:

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/republicans-dont-want-the-tweet-that-i-got-mark-sanford-says-trump-sealed-his-loss/2018/06/13/d36a9fe2-6f0e-11e8-afd5-778aca903bbe_story.html

“We are the party of President Donald J. Trump,”
Arrington declared in her victory speech.

Among all the things that Trump is not interested in,
these may rank near the top - a lack of interest in
expanding his support beyond his hard core base, and a
lack of interest in establishing and preserving norms of
behavior that would benefit his successors:

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/donald-trumps-america-the-rogue-superpower/2018/06/14/c01bb540-6ff7-11e8-afd5-778aca903bbe_story.html

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If Donald Trump were an agent for a foreign dictator,
what would he do differently?

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/11/opinion/g7-trump-north-korea-kim-jong-un-foreign-policy.html

He must just like dictators better than democrats:

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/06/11/trudy-rubin-why-trump-was-in-full-suck-up-mode-with-autocrats-before-g-7/

But how do you sell one thing and deliver the opposite,
over and over?     By dazzle and distract:

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/12/opinion/trump-jordan-peterson-charlatans.html

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Even the president tells the truth sometimes....

it's just a matter of the odds.     If he says one thing
on one occasion and the exact opposite on another, he must
have been telling the truth once.... but how to tell which
one was true?

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/31/us/politics/fact-check-trump-fire-comey-russia.html

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/04/us/politics/trump-mueller-falsehoods-tower-meeting.html

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As always, blame the Jews....

One expects this from Viktor Orban:

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/06/04/trudy-rubin-roseannes-vicious-tweet-about-philanthropist-reflects-a-deeper-derangement/

but not Netanyahu!

 https://www.haaretz.com/opinion/.premium-zeroing-in-on-soros-netanyahu-is-side-by-side-with-anti-semitic-scum-1.5792539

Has there been so little progress since the days of
Dreyfus?

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dreyfus_affair

Yet there's a strange symmetry there - a Hungarian,
Esterhazy, was one of the French officers who framed
Dreyfus to cover their own tracks.      And the Dreyfus
affair was one of the events that radicalized Theodor Herzl
from assimilation to Zionism, leading to the creation of
the state of Israel that Netanyahu now leads, when he's
not in court.

It's a testament to the enduring power of myth and
superstition over reason and facts.    After all, salesman-
leaders like Trump and Netanyahu speak the truth about
the dreams and fears of their audience, and the audience
feels great, even though the leaders seldom do anything to
improve the lot of the audience, and often make it worse.

Yet, the human animal seems to need the help of
the irrational to get through an irrational world.
Interesting thoughts on that:

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/03/opinion/why-we-need-religion.html

And that's why superstition is never dead, just dormant,
like a sleeping volcano.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#political%20ideology%20for%20the%20masses

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Remembering Gerald Ford and Bush 1...

it's amazing how much better former presidents have been
looking lately.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/gerald-ford-shows-us-what-we-just-might-gain-from-trumps-presidency/2018/06/01/6d2ab9d8-64ff-11e8-99d2-0d678ec08c2f_story.html

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/president-george-hw-bush-is-an-extraordinary-example-for-our-times/2018/06/11/dac83b7e-2d4f-11e8-b0b0-f706877db618_story.html

Even Warren Harding, probably the worst president overall,
called the world's first disarmament conference, which
was successful for ten years:

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Naval_Conference

Of course, others hold that Hoover was the worst Republican
president; he knew tariffs were bad but signed Smoot
Hawley anyway:

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/06/01/opinion/trump-tariffs-canada-mexico-europe.html

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Things aren't always what they seem...  skim milk
masquerades as cream.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2018/05/22/did-rosenstein-and-wray-play-trump/

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/rosenstein-just-gave-ground-to-trump-will-his-gamble-work/2018/05/22/0b125372-5d3f-11e8-9ee3-49d6d4814c4c_story.html

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There's gold in them thar deserts...

all you have to know is who to talk to

 https://apnews.com/7899619719114ec4b61b80eb71438df7/The-princes,-the-president-and-the-fortune-seekers

 https://www.thedailybeast.com/elliott-broidys-company-got-its-biggest-us-government-contract-ever-while-he-pitched-trump-administration

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/05/22/get-to-know-elliott-broidy-the-next-major-trump-scandal-figure/

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As suspected, the Republican leadership doesn't  REALLY
want to stop illegal immigration... that might affect the
bottom line, and the recession that followed might affect
the next election, and put the major donors in a bad mood.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/business/economy/trump-is-very-weak-on-this-one-popular-way-to-curb-illegal-immigration/2018/05/22/adf5f85e-399b-11e8-acd5-35eac230e514_story.html

Trucking companies need more drivers, and they can't
get them.     That's how economic booms come to an end.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/wonk/wp/2018/05/21/america-doesnt-have-enough-truckers-and-its-starting-to-cause-prices-of-about-everything-to-rise/

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/559983061012884

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Playing with Fire - 1968 and 2016

The more things change...

"When Johnson got word of Nixon's meddling, he
ordered the F.B.I. to track Chennault's movements. She
'contacted Vietnam Ambassador Bui Diem,' one report from
the surveillance noted, 'and advised him that she had
received a message from her boss ... to give personally to
the ambassador. She said the message was ... "Hold
on. We are gonna win. ... Please tell your boss to hold
on." '

In a conversation with the Republican senator Everett
Dirksen, the minority leader, Johnson lashed out at
Nixon. 'I'm reading their hand, Everett,' Johnson told
his old friend. 'This is treason.'

'I know,' Dirksen said mournfully.

Johnson's closest aides urged him to unmask Nixon's
actions. But on a Nov. 4 conference call, they concluded
that they could not go public because, among other factors,
they lacked the 'absolute proof,' as Defense Secretary
Clark Clifford put it, of Nixon's direct involvement.

Nixon was elected president the next day."

 https://www.nytimes.com/2016/12/31/opinion/sunday/nixons-vietnam-treachery.html

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/01/05/books/review/lawrence-odonnell-playing-with-fire.html

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Consistency of Republican Word and Deed

Self-destruction of Ryan and the GOP:

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/13/opinion/paul-ryan-donald-trump-republicans.html

Some commentators complain that the modern Republican party
no longer has a consistent conservative philosophy.    They
might be mistaken, and other commentators have pointed out
the remarkable consistency of modern Republican political
leaders from Trump on down, almost without exception.
It's a simple matter of SAY and DO.

What they SAY:  They talk to encourage their voting base:
social wedge issues like abortion, guns, immigration,
gender identity, racial identity, welfare cheats, unfair
trade, globalization, Clinton, Obama...  Criterion: what
gets the crowd chanting at Trump campaign rallies?

What they DO: They act to encourage their donor base: tax
cuts for high income people, benefit reductions for low
income people, deregulation, scientific gerrymandering,
making sure that there will always be plenty of illegal
immigrants for employers to exploit...  Criterion: is it
good for the (old white male) billionaire donor class?

The party of Lincoln is gone.    The party of Reagan is
no more.

To preserve their Congressional majorities, the Republicans
need both the votes and the dollars.     Although the hard
core of the Trump Republican base doesn't seem to care,
recent Democratic victories in special elections to fill
safe Republican seats suggest that at least part of the
Republican voting base is starting to crack the code.

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More on Paul Ryan's missing legacy

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/paul-ryan-cant-wash-his-hands-of-the-immigration-fight-yet/2018/05/18/b352f7b2-5ac4-11e8-8836-a4a123c359ab_story.html

Immigration... farming...

It was easy when the Republicans were out of power.
They were opposed to everything Obama did, because he
was... black.     They didn't say that out loud, to avoid
alienating one part of their party, but they hinted loudly
enough, to avoid alienating another part of their party.

Everything's different now - instead of disagreeing
with everything that Obama proposed, they disagree
with everything the other wing of their party proposes.
And some of them are hinting louder to the deplorable side
of their party.

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Could President Pence be removed?

With no sex or money scandals, and lacking foreign
entanglements, Pence seems unlikely to commit Treason,
Bribery, or other high Crimes and Misdemeanors; any minor
screw-ups that come to light might seem very small after
the Trump administration.  So he won't be removable under
Article II.  Lacking any sign of mental or emotional
instability or other medical issues, he won't be subject
to the 25th amendment.  So whatever leverage that Congress
might have against Trump on those grounds, wouldn't apply
to Pence.  There's no constitutional provision for removing
a president for merely being unsavory or incompetent or
unpopular, which could be viewed as a bug if the president
were never elected but succeeded an elected president.

It appears that Pence is organizing a staff that can
work together effectively to promote his reactionary
legislative agenda - one that could actually govern should
the need arise.     They are bound together by a common
ideology, completely unlike Trump's staff of self-serving
opportunists and kleptocrats .  Whereas Trump doesn't have
to worry about his lieutenants turning against him on
ideological principle, he does have to worry about what
happens if they sense a better opportunity elsewhere.
In contrast, Pence doesn't have to worry so much about
opportunism as about making sure his staff is ideologically
compatible.

Trump can be easily satisfied with flattery, news releases,
photo-ops, a TV ratings boost, and other superficial
rewards, as Pence and other political leaders, and Kim
and other foreign leaders, have discerned.  Pence's team
might insist on real substantive accomplishments.

If Trump is removed, Pence becomes President.  That's
something that Democrats should consider carefully before
talking about removal, which is still unpopular among
the uncommitted middle of the electorate that might vote
either way.  According to an NPR/PBS/Marist poll:

47 percent of registered voters would definitely vote
against a candidate who wanted to remove Trump from office,
while 42 percent would definitely vote for a candidate
who would make such a promise.

And the Republicans are planning to use removal talk
to rally their demoralized base.  But according to
Dionne: "The top three issues on voters' minds in
battleground states and districts are gun policy (23
percent), the economy and jobs (20 percent) and health
care (also 20 percent)...  All elections involve a mix of
mobilization and persuasion. The intense dislike of Trump
means that mobilization will play an especially large role
this year. But few Democrats - in swing areas and among
would-be presidents - are counting on animosity to the
president to do all their work for them."

So to win control of Congress in 2018, it's perhaps best
for Democratic candidates to say as little as possible
about removal, and focus on the issues that matter in
contestable districts.    Leave it to Trump to keep the
Democratic base energized with his imprudent responses to
the Mueller investigation.

And if the Democrats win control of Congress in 2018, a
possible strategy would be to say no more about removal
until the next recession is definitely under way, then
quickly remove Trump and let Pence take the economic blame.
Ideally that would occur early in 2020 to maximize the
impact on the 2020 election, but economic cycles run
on their own unpredictable and opaque mass-psychology
dynamics: as the joke goes, economists have successfully
predicted nine of the last five recessions.

As for replacing an unsavory or incompetent or unpopular
president, a mechanism could be part of electoral college
reform.

For links to references, please see

 https://www.facebook.com/politicalscrapbooknet/posts/619932365017953

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==========


The impeachment bandwagon breaks down

George Will wrote an infamous column calling Mike Pence
the worst person in government.

It all does make W look better in retrospect, as he likes
to remind people.  But it doesn't do anything to improve
the reputation of President Cheney.

politicalscrapbooknet is the end point of an effort that
began with hoping to persuade electors that they should
vote Pence/Trump rather than Trump/Pence.

Now it's not clear that would have been an improvement.
Anyway the RNC made sure that no Elector would ever
again attempt to respect the intent of the Founders by
exercising free will.  So we really don't need a human
Electoral College any more.

=====

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==========


DACA - Will Paul Ryan leave a legacy?

"To live, to love, to learn, to leave a legacy"
- the dimensions of life according to Samuel Covey.

What's Paul Ryan's legacy?    He's not going to be
remembered fondly by the average American who lacks the
X-ray vision required to see the benefit of the Ryan
tax bill.

What about DACA?    Ryan feels a moral imperative to do
SOMEthing, but Meadows says no, McCarthy says no, and
Trump isn't interested, not even in a bipartisan deal that
would get Trump his wall.  Trump would rather shut down
the government.

 https://www.politico.com/story/2018/05/17/ryan-mccarthy-immigration-dreamers-clash-597381

As for the tax bill, it looks like Ryan was blindsided by
the law of unintended consequences:

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/12/business/economy/state-tax.html

If he'd been a technologist, or even a tax accountant,
he would have expected that.

Well at least you can count on the Republicans to pass
a farm bill.    That's why almost every farmer votes
Republican, and that's why if the presidential election
were by counties, the Republicans would win every time.
But the Freedom Caucus decided otherwise:

 https://www.npr.org/2018/05/18/612203191/house-farm-bill-in-jeopardy-as-leaders-court-conservatives

As for McCarthy, it would be wonderful, albeit improbable,
if he and Devin Nunes could join the California 7 in
retirement:

 https://www.ca7project.com/

If you haven't heard the Covey before:

 https://www.brevedy.com/2015/03/12/live-love-learn-and-leave-a-legacy-the-four-human-dimensions/

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==========


Deflating the tires of the impeachment bandwagon

A powerful argument against impeaching Trump:

 https://thetrumpimpeachment.com/george-wills-column-pence-worst-person-government-message-need-hear/

There's another school of thought, that while professing
ultra-Trumpian loyalty, Pence is craftily building an
independent legislative and governing team in order to hit
the ground running whenever that might be needed, in 2024,
2020, or sooner:

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/14/us/politics/pence-trump-midterms.html

==

It all does make W look better in retrospect, as he likes
to remind people:

 http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/376909-bush-says-trump-makes-me-look-pretty-good-by-comparison-report

Though it doesn't do anything to improve the reputation
of President Cheney.

==

politicalscrapbooknet is the end point of an effort that
began with hoping to persuade electors that they should
vote Pence/Trump rather than Trump/Pence:

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/archive/electors.html#last

Now it's not clear that would have been an improvement.
Anyway the RNC made sure that no Elector would ever again
attempt to respect the intent of the Founders by exercising
free will:

=====

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==========


MeToo - The Political Issue of the Century?

It's difficult to exaggerate the potential significance
of the MeToo movement in politics, business, and society
at large.

It's hard to think of any particular issue that
resonates with every man that ever lived in every place
and every time.    Yet sexual harassment and abuse is
something experienced by every woman that has ever lived.
A nuisance for all and a horror for many, none of them
need it explained.

So how should this powerfully raised consciousness be
applied politically?  Women's issues don't always translate
into good law - suffragettes were powerful advocates of
Prohibition as well as suffrage - the 18th amendment and
19th amendment were ratified a year apart.

Perhaps the biggest mistake for progressives would be to
think and speak of #MeToo as a leftist progressive issue.
Remember that all women have endured minor or major sexual
harassment, but all women do not have the exact same
opinions on most other controversial political matters:
abortion, immigration, guns, taxation... to name a few.

Trump holds one of his campaign rallies and hears the
chants and thinks "The People are with me all the
way!" when what is really true is that his shrunken
hard core of supporters, who have no where else to go,
are still with him.  Fox News and the Republican party
in general are painting themselves into the same corner
where their best friends will be Infowars and David Duke
and their billionaire donors.

Progressives should not make the same mistake as Trump
and Trump supporters; preaching to the choir can deceive
at progressive rallies too.  The progressive cause is
ill served by suggesting that all #MeToo voters should
subscribe to a full progressive agenda, and ill served by
insisting that Democrats should nominate full progressive
candidates in every district whether or not they have
any credible chance of winning in the general election.
Progressives should be painting themselves out of corners
and into the largest possible arena.  Over time they might
be able to make the point to conservative women that,
for instance, the unequal power of money in politics is
not so different from the unequal power of money in gender
relations, and so help conservative women to think more
progressively about some issues.

The recent special elections have been instructive.
In most cases the margin of difference, that enabled
Democratic candidates to succeed in Republican districts,
was provided by educated suburban middle-class women who
had voted for Trump in 2016 but then for a Democrat in 2017
or 2018.     These were not Bernie Sanders supporters who,
in 2016, had stayed home or voted Green out of spite.

Trumpist Republican candidates - and that's most
Republican candidates - who uncritically support Trump are
uncritically endorsing his antediluvian attitudes toward
women, and saying that those attitudes and actions are
acceptable in Republican candidates.  That's the point
that has to be hammered home whenever the issue arises.
Even if the only outcome is to eventually purge the
Republican party of the equivocators and apologists for
sexual abuse, that's still a step forward for all women
and thus for progressives, too.  Then everybody can move
on to the other great issues of our time.

=====

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==========


Deflating the tires of impeachment

A powerful argument against impeaching Trump:

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-is-no-longer-the-worst-person-in-government/2018/05/09/10e59eba-52f1-11e8-a551-5b648abe29ef_story.html

It all does make W look better in retrospect, as he likes
to remind people:
 http://thehill.com/homenews/administration/376909-bush-says-trump-makes-me-look-pretty-good-by-comparison-report
Though it doesn't do anything to improve the reputation of
President Cheney.   One can hope that the day will never
arrive when ordinary people look back fondly on the Trump
administration.
 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#registration

politicalscrapbooknet is the end point of an effort that
began with hoping to persuade electors that they should
vote Pence/Trump rather than Trump/Pence:

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/archive/electors.html#last

Now it's not clear that would have been an improvement.
Anyway the RNC made sure that nobody would try that again:

 https://www.salon.com/2016/12/13/report-donald-trumps-campaign-is-threatening-political-reprisal-for-defecting-republican-electors/

=====

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==========


Who has left the Trump administration with most of their
honor intact?

Mostly the ones that were fired, it seems:

 http://www.businessinsider.com/who-has-trump-fired-so-far-james-comey-sean-spicer-michael-flynn-2017-7

 https://www.cnn.com/interactive/2017/08/politics/trump-admin-departures-trnd/

One of them had already signed up to deliver a commencement
address:

 https://www.usatoday.com/story/news/politics/onpolitics/2018/05/16/rex-tillerson-vmi-commencement-speech/617849002/

Who's most in demand on the Republican fundraising circuit?
Mostly the felons, it seems:

 https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2018/5/1/1761168/-A-wave-of-Republicans-are-trying-to-turn-their-own-crimes-into-campaign-assets

 https://www.thedailybeast.com/michael-flynn-comes-out-of-hiding-to-stump-for-far-right-congressional-candidate

 http://www.latimes.com/politics/essential/la-pol-ca-essential-politics-updates-joe-arpaio-1504648710-htmlstory.html

And whatever happened to those Iran-Contra scandal
principals?

 https://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2018/05/07/609133891/oliver-north-will-be-next-president-of-nra-organization-says

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==========


Foreigners and dirty tricks: it's not just the Russians

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/07/opinion/black-cube-ben-rhodes-colin-kahl.html
But still the Republicans seem to be colluding.

=====

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==========


Gnawing Away at Health Care

The Republicans succeeded at passing a tax bill that
pleased their donors a lot more than their voters, a fact
that they are going to hear a lot about this year.

Maybe they are lucky they didn't repeal Obamacare, which
also would have pleased their donors a lot more than
their voters.   But they are doing the best they can to
undo it bit by bit.     They should hear a lot about that
this year too.

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/07/opinion/republicans-obamacare-health-care.html

=====

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==========


Appreciating John McCain

The end is near, and so is his book.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/john-mccain-unspools-a-self-help-manual-for-america/2018/05/06/f0844168-4fb1-11e8-b725-92c89fe3ca4c_story.html

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/john-mccain-isnt-the-ideal-messenger-hes-the-ideal-message/2018/05/04/71a7bb84-4f9f-11e8-af46-b1d6dc0d9bfe_story.html

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/05/opinion/sunday/john-mccain-trump.html

But the heel spur heros are fighting back:

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/the-fix/wp/2018/05/07/mccains-critiques-of-trump-have-presidents-supporters-angry-and-firing-back/

=====

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==========


Three ways of looking at the modern Republican party

John McCain attempts to conjure up some better angels:

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/05/opinion/sunday/john-mccain-trump.html

"the G.O.P. is often more popular the less it attempts
to legislate at all:"

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/05/opinion/sunday/how-trump-is-winning.html

And in California, the remaining Republicans are
pathologically delusional:

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/05/06/us/california-republicans.html

thinking their unpopularity is somehow attributable to
"Republican-lites that are pandering to Democrat
policies" - like Arnold Schwazenegger.  The remaining
Republicans seem to be obsessed with touting their
Trumpiness.

Maybe the country needs a new conservative party.
Don't look for it in California.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#conservative

=====

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==========


Kicking the can down the road - who's to blame?

Interest on the US national debt consuming all the GNP is
no longer such a distant vague threat:

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/05/05/george-will-pour-a-scotch-and-read-on-we-may-be-trapped-in-a-debt-spiral/

Solutions have been proposed:

 https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/National_Commission_on_Fiscal_Responsibility_and_Reform

but the politicians who created the problem thought that
was enough work for one career and decided to leave fixing
the problem as a task for the next generation.

In a different way, sales tax has been an important
part of the funding of local government in California
and elsewhere.    But who gets the sales tax collected
by a huge Amazon distribution center - the county where
the center is located or the counties where the products
are shipped?

It's a specific manifestation of a much larger problem
- sales tax (and gasoline tax, for that matter) is
increasingly difficult to adapt to modern technologies and
the whole funding structure of state and local government
probably needs to be re-architected from the ground up:

 https://www.mercurynews.com/2018/05/06/walters-how-online-retail-is-radically-affecting-many-billions-of-sales-tax-dollars-in-california/

but it's left as a problem for the next generation to
solve, because every change in taxation creates winners and
losers and the losers kick back harder than the winners.

Here's one idea:

 http://www.one-flat-tax.net/

What do you think of politicians who decline to tell the
voters what they need to hear about difficult choices -
leaders who decline to lead?

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#bipartisanship

What do you think of voters who keep electing the same
kinds of leaders?

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Not all Republicans are liars!

Here's Mick Mulvaney telling the honest truth:

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/24/us/mulvaney-consumer-financial-protection-bureau.html

One might suppose that he's an honest politician, too,
at least according to the Simon Cameron criterion:

An honest politician is one who, when he is bought, will
stay bought.

Of course a better supposition is that politics will just
get worse until the people get the big dark money out
of politics:

 http://www.americanpromise.net/

 http://www.democracy21.org/money-in-politics/

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#corporate%20donations

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Only the Best People Serve.... Time

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/trump-gives-a-new-political-cachet-to-the-criminal-class/2018/05/04/cf061490-4dfd-11e8-84a0-458a1aa9ac0a_story.html

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/crimes-are-no-longer-a-disqualification-for-republican-candidates/2018/04/30/c64a40ac-4807-11e8-827e-190efaf1f1ee_story.html

Beyond parody - nobody could make this stuff up!

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/powerpost/west-virginia-gop-candidate-says-mcconnell-created-jobs-for-china-people/2018/05/03/a3fea38a-4f28-11e8-af46-b1d6dc0d9bfe_story.html

The original National Socialist Workers Party guy wrote a
best-seller when he was in prison and published it when he
got out.  Nowadays the equivalent will have to be to write
a best-seller while serving in government and publish it
when one gets out.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/a-top-aide-to-epa-chief-scott-pruitt-resigns-amid-scrutiny/2018/05/01/9db56f44-4d44-11e8-84a0-458a1aa9ac0a_story.html

If there's a self-serving opportunist with a history
of shady deals at the top, it's not surprising to find
self-serving opportunists with histories of shady deals
all the way down to the bottom.

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The Alt-Right is also beyond parody

Perhaps they'll be back, or perhaps they'll submerge back
into the regular subliminally fascist-racist crowd.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/local/social-issues/imploding-lawsuits-fundraising-troubles-trailer-park-brawls-has-the-alt-right-peaked/2018/04/20/0a2fb786-39a6-11e8-9c0a-85d477d9a226_story.html

And Bannon doesn't seem to be getting a lot of press
any more.

Maybe they'd all be happier emigrating to some place like
Hungary where they might be welcome - if they bring money.

Ludicrous as they may be, their bile inspires the gullible:

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/news/worldviews/wp/2018/04/20/the-threat-of-white-radical-extremism-in-the-age-of-trump/

Justice done twice in one week.

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Trump can't pass laws, but he can sure repeal them

If Obama (or Bush or Clinton) signed it, Trump can
repeal it!

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2018/04/18/new-gop-tactics-wage-war-on-obama-era-protections/

Trump can get rid of those pesky regulations that are
oppressing America's hard-working billionaires!

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==========


A Republican New Deal is much like a Democratic New Deal

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/13/opinion/sunday/trump-republican-new-deal.html

Geoffrey Kabaservice suggests that the Republicans might
save themselves in the short and long term by embracing
a number of projects that might actually help their most
Trumpian base of rural white people who are on the lower
end of the scale of income and education:

rebuilding our decaying national infrastructure

vigorous support for universal entitlements like Social
Security and Medicare

robust wage subsidies

a generous child care tax credit

apprenticeship programs linked to specific high-skilled
jobs

a national version of a California proposal to make housing
more affordable:
 https://www.city-journal.org/html/california-housing-revolution-15731.html

That much sounds pretty Democratic to me!  In fact the
Center for American Progress produced much the same list
for the Democratic party:

 https://www.americanprogressaction.org/issues/economy/reports/2018/04/17/169879/working-class-push-progressive-economic-policies/

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/22/opinion/big-economic-ideas.html

 https://www.americanprogress.org/issues/economy/reports/2017/05/16/432499/toward-marshall-plan-america/

It seems that these are areas that could engender
bipartisan support if the will were there.

Kabaservice expects that the Republicans would continue
some of their traditional practices in other areas, and
would retain their megadonors by continuing to dismantle
Federal regulation, and would retain their single-issue
voters by nominating conservative Federal judges.  So you
could still tell the difference between the parties.

Kabaservice cites academic studies to support his thesis:

Bartels at Vanderbilt reports that a majority of
Republicans support an active government role in social
welfare - contrary to the Libertarian line of many
"establishment" Republicans but in line with
Trump's campaign promise not to touch Social Security
and Medicare:

Could any of this actually happen despite the institutional
duopoly resistance to compromise?  It would have to
happen without Trump's involvement, since he is most
dogmatic about his worst ideas and most inept at getting
his other ideas through Congress.    And a large number
of Republican legislators running in 2018 seem to define
their ideology by whatever Trump is for, which means they
are fully occupied trying to keep up with him instead of
solving real problems for their base.

If there are any Republicans who want to be identifiable
as something more constructive than Trumpists, time is
running out for them to come up with a credible Plan B
for solving real problems.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#conservative

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==========


When did the Democrats become the party of Fiscal
Responsibility?

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/15/opinion/democrats-fiscal-responsibility.html

One might have thought that the Democrats just recently
saw the light in response to Trumpian populism; populists
are notoriously irresponsible about deficits and printing
money - just go to Venezuela to see what happens next.

But there's a remarkable pattern in the actual data:
over the last 40+ years, the Democrats have actually been
more responsible about raising taxes to pay for increased
spending, and even cutting spending.

And if Trump really wants to do something about foreign
trade deficits, maybe he should start with the domestic
deficit.  It's immoral to make future generations pay for
present consumption.    But who's expecting the Democrats
or Republicans to take the lead on that any time soon?

Our political industry, organized as a duopoly, is
inherently unable to solve problems through compromise:

 https://www.hbs.edu/competitiveness/Documents/why-competition-in-the-politics-industry-is-failing-america.pdf

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==========


Join SAM?

On 2 April 2018, San Jose Mercury News had a full-page
add for the Serve America Movement - SAM -

 http://joinsam.org/

It's another attempt to solve the bipartisan gridlock of
the current Republican and Democratic parties, in this
case by starting a third party.  There was an explanatory
piece by the chairman in Huffpost last year:

 https://www.huffingtonpost.com/entry/a-historic-time-for-choosing_us_5967700be4b051f16255e62f

They haven't gotten a lot of press yet, but here's some:

 http://www.businessinsider.com/bush-staffers-new-political-party-serve-america-movement-2018-4

Maybe it's time for a new centrist third party:

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#conservative

Third parties are tricky and sometimes harmful:

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/theory.html#registration

but occasionally serve the vital purpose of nudging the
major parties when they've gotten off track.    The harm
would be mitigated by preferential voting

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/democracy.html#preferential

as advocated by

 http://www.fairvote.org/

Other groups working toward centrist solutions in various
ways include

 https://www.nolabels.org/ http://www.uniteamerica.org/
formerly centristproject.org https://bipartisanpolicy.org/

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#MeToo - The Political Issue of the Century?

It's difficult to exaggerate the potential significance
of the #MeToo movement in politics, business, and society
at large.

It's hard to think of any particular issue that
resonates with every man that ever lived in every place
and every time.    Yet sexual harassment and abuse is
something experienced by every woman that has ever lived.
A nuisance for all and a horror for many, none of them
need it explained.

So how should this powerfully raised consciousness be
applied politically?  Women's issues don't always translate
into good law - suffragettes were powerful advocates of
Prohibition as well as suffrage - the 18th amendment and
19th amendment were ratified a year apart.

I think the biggest mistake for progressives would be to
think and speak of #MeToo as a leftist progressive issue.
Remember that all women have endured minor or major sexual
harassment, but all women do not have the exact same
opinions on most other controversial political matters:
abortion, immigration, guns, taxation... to name a few.

Trump holds one of his campaign rallies and hears the
chants and thinks "The People are with me all the
way!" when what is really true is that his shrunken
hard core of supporters, who have no where else to go,
are still with him.  Fox News and the Republican party
in general are painting themselves into the same corner
where their best friends will be Infowars and David Duke
and their billionaire donors.

Progressives should not make the same mistake as Trump
and Trump supporters; preaching to the choir can deceive
at progressive rallies too.  The progressive cause is
ill served by suggesting that all #MeToo voters should
subscribe to a full progressive agenda, and ill served by
insisting that Democrats should nominate full progressive
candidates in every district whether or not they have
any credible chance of winning in the general election.
Progressives should be painting themselves out of corners
and into the largest possible arena.  Over time they might
be able to make the point to conservative women that,
for instance, the unequal power of money in politics is
not so different from the unequal power of money in gender
relations, and so help conservative women to think more
progressively about some issues.

The recent special elections have been instructive.
In most cases the margin of difference, that enabled
Democratic candidates to succeed in Republican districts,
was provided by educated suburban middle-class women who
had voted for Trump in 2016 but then for a Democrat in 2017
or 2018.     These were not Bernie Sanders supporters who,
in 2016, had stayed home or voted Green out of spite.

Trumpist Republican candidates - and that's most
Republican candidates - who uncritically support Trump are
uncritically endorsing his antediluvian attitudes toward
women, and saying that those attitudes and actions are
acceptable in Republican candidates.  That's the point
that has to be hammered home whenever the issue arises.
Even if the only outcome is to eventually purge the
Republican party of the equivocators and apologists for
sexual abuse, that's still a step forward for all women
and thus for progressives, too.  Then everybody can move
on to the other great issues of our time.

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Consistency of Republican Word and Deed

 https://www.nytimes.com/2018/04/13/opinion/paul-ryan-donald-trump-republicans.html

Some commentators complain that the modern Republican party
no longer has a consistent conservative philosophy.    They
might be mistaken, and other commentators have pointed out
the remarkable consistency of modern Republican political
leaders from Trump on down, almost without exception.
It's a simple matter of SAY and DO.

What they SAY:  They talk to encourage their voting base:
social wedge issues like abortion, guns, immigration,
gender identity, racial identity, welfare cheats, unfair
trade, globalization, Clinton, Obama...  Criterion: what
gets the crowd chanting at Trump campaign rallies?

What they DO: They act to encourage their donor base: tax
cuts for high income people, benefit reductions for low
income people, deregulation, scientific gerrymandering,
making sure that there will always be plenty of illegal
immigrants for employers to exploit...  Criterion: is it
good for the (old white male) billionaire donor class?

To preserve their Congressional majorities, the Republicans
need both the votes and the dollars.     Although the hard
core of the Trump Republican base doesn't seem to care,
recent Democratic victories in special elections to fill
safe Republican seats suggest that at least part of the
Republican voting base is starting to crack the code.

 https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/the-reagan-revolution-is-officially-over/2018/04/12/872f6986-3e8b-11e8-8d53-eba0ed2371cc_story.html

The party of Lincoln is gone.    The party of Reagan is
no more.

 http://www.political-scrapbook.net/trump.html#First%20Trump%20Constituency

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==========


Should Oprah Winfrey run for President in 2020?

Media personalities should not run for President -
that seemed evident to many people even when Reagan was
governor.    But now can anybody win without being one or
becoming one?

The Washington Post today has a lot of opinion pieces
about Oprah for President, pro and con.  Jennifer Rubin
was first with a list of positive attributes.  But:

The list of Oprah Winfrey attributes would have all fit
Barack Obama just as well.     Yet he was irrevocably
reviled by a significant segment of the electorate -
for a lot of reasons but most of all because he was black.

Much of the list would fit Hillary Clinton, too, though not
as well.  Yet she was irrevocably reviled by a significant
segment of the electorate too - for a lot of reasons but
at least in part because she was a woman.

One first has to wonder why anybody would subject
themselves, their family, their friends, their business,
to the withering barrage of real or imaginary dirt stories
that professional dirt writers will dig up or make up.
Look at all the shameless vitriol directed at Michelle
Obama.

One next has to wonder, does America deserve a leader as
inspiring as Oprah Winfrey?    If she did run, she'd have
to take positions on a number of hot-button issues, and
no matter which way she went, or if she took no position,
she'd lose some supporters on each issue.  Just as every
other candidate does.

Rather than running herself now, perhaps she should focus
on change advocacy far more profound than any one elected
official can accomplish alone - getting the money out
of politics, the politics out of redistricting, states
out of the business of suppressing voter registration
and turnout, and reforms that foster problem-solving
bipartisanship rather than ideological intransigence,
such as preferential balloting and multi-member districts.
Then who is elected president will matter less, but the
elected president will matter more.    And she's young
enough that 2024 or 2028 would still be realistic targets
if she were still interested.

On the other hand ...

The movie Darkest Hour ends on the memorable line

 He mobilized the English language and sent it into battle.

(The movie takes liberties; the quote dates not from
Parliament in May 1940 but from Edward R Murrow in 1953.)
Churchill wrote all his speeches by himself, and planned
all the phrasing and pauses in advance.      Lincoln
wrote the Gettysburg Address and delivered it from his
handwritten draft.  How many of our current politicians
could write their own speeches and deliver them effectively
without a teleprompter?

If Oprah can continue to mobilize the English language,
more power to her.  Just remember that Churchill was voted
out a few months after the end of the war.    He had his
time and place but the world moved on.

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