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15 Aug 2018, 9:44 am

Presidential historian crushes Republican Party for ‘cowardice’ that ‘is hurting the country’

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On Tuesday, presidential historian Douglas Brinkley said cowards in the Republican Party are the real threat to America, during a panel discussion with CNN’s Don Lemon.

“It is just horrific. I was reflecting on past presidents today. Since the civil war, we haven’t had a president at least since Andrew Johnson that is a full-fledged bigot,” he said.

“Donald Trump has a career of just doing racially insensitive and hateful comments towards people. We have to realize he doesn’t like Mexican Americans. He doesn’t like anybody of color. He doesn’t like African Americans. He doesn’t really want you here. There is no way around the fact that he is a bigot and a racist,” Brinkley added.

“It stuns me that so many are timid. Where are other Republicans that should have been defending John McCain when Donald Trump wouldn’t utter his name in a service like that?” he asked.

“The cowardice of Republicans right now is what shocks me. It is the deficit in the Republican Party that is really hurting the country right now. ”



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17 Aug 2018, 2:52 am

they [the proto-fascist GOP] are merely whittling down democracy until it gets weak enough to drown in a bathtub.



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17 Aug 2018, 6:57 pm

I have to stop trying to figure out the American right, as their ideology has become so incomprehensible that I only get headaches trying to grasp it.


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17 Aug 2018, 7:38 pm

Kraichgauer wrote:
I have to stop trying to figure out the American right, as their ideology has become so incomprehensible that I only get headaches trying to grasp it.

getting around all their BS boilerplate, their ideology is basically feudal- the strong and the rich [one and the same] have the divine right to lord it over the rest of us, to run roughshod over us, to use us until we are worn out then dispose of us like trash. IOW rich thugs with manicures.