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Interesting that Club for Growth, a right wing anti-taxation/plutocrat defense outfit, is circulating a two-minute (a Russian novel in ad terms) hit ad calling out Beto O’Rourke for being a wealthy Scion of white privilege and comparing him unfavorably to ... Barack Obama.
The ad strikes me as one that could have been run against a Kennedy in the 1960s or 70s, but from the left. Very interesting show of the hand on what the right thinks the key soft spots of the potential Trump challengers are.
Especially since presumably, Club For Growth will be supporting wealthy son of privilege and arch Obama-hater Donald Trump for president in 2020.
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Ta’Nehisi Coates is back, and goes in depth on the Democratic and liberal policy imagination, CJR, reparations, and what makes him optimistic. And he gives a huge boost to HR40, which we discussed with its house sponsor, @SheilaJacksonLe & @MakeItPlain last weekend. A clip:
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Joy Reid
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And those massive deficits would be used to justify demands for further cuts - to food stamps, Head Start, education, environmental protection & anything that helps poor and working people — while they keep cutting rich folks’ taxes, deficits be damned. That’s “starve the beast.”
You can call it “deconstructing the administrative state” like Bannon did or “drain the swamp” a la Reagan and Trump but it comes down to the same thing, and here I’ll quote @sarahkendzior - “stripping the nation for parts” so the rich pay near 0 tax & the poor are on their own.
Welcome to the new Gilded Age.
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Joy Reid
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Lots of commentary on how unlikely any of this is to pass the Senate. But that’s not the House’s job - the job of politics is to lay down markers and then pass the ball. The senate votes on these bills, and whether they even get to the floor, are markers.
When House Republicans under Paul Ryan repeatedly passed futile bills to repeal Obamacare or the “Ryan budgets” that decimated the safety net, they didn’t pass the Senate but they were markers of what the party stands for. And repeated votes forced pols to take a side, publicly.
Same with decades of attempts by northern Democrats plus LBJ, and their Republican allies to pass civil rights bills, which built up a consensus over time and told the country clearly, who everybody was and where they stood, for better or worse. Important part of politics.
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