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Lawrence Glickman
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Look who’s talking. The Democratic Party is much more diverse ideologically than the Republicans, which once had a vibrant moderate wing, but no longer does. To take one example, in 2009 the House passed the Stimulus Package, which rescued the economy, without a single GOP vote.
As @perrybaconjr has shown, by most measures the GOP is “far more conservative than it used to be.”
fivethirtyeight.com/features/the-r…
See also this excellent book by @NormOrnstein and Thomas E. Mann on the extremism of the modern GOP.
amazon.com/Even-Worse-Tha…
And this more recent piece by @gaywonk
vox.com/2018/10/29/180…
And let’s not forget that the Republicans voted unanimously against the ACA in 2010 and have done everything in their power since then to destroy it.
nytimes.com/2010/03/26/hea…
Given Scalise's record, which includes speaking before the European-American Unity and Rights Organization (EURO) — an extremist group founded by former Ku Klux Klan leader David Duke, he might not be the GOP's best messenger on the topic of moderation.
politico.com/story/2014/12/…
In 1996, as a Louisiana state representative, Scalise saw no need to apologize for slavery.
newspapers.com/clip/33775564/
And he sponsored legislation to ban weight-lifting competitions in prisons in order to to remove the "country club atmosphere." Keep in mind that this was in the state of Louisiana.
newspapers.com/clip/33775706/
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Good piece showing that Trump is purely a performative "populist" whose administration serves the interests of corporations and the wealthy.
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However, the idea suggested here that Steven Bannon or Rick Santorum ever in any way promoted working-class interests is far-fetched. /2
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Would love to know more about the history of housing values in Port Washington, where Scaramucci, described in this piece as the "working-class Italian American kid," grew up. /1
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Seems like a good idea to take Trump's red-baiting, evidence-free charges against the Democrats and then to "fact check" the Dems. Given Trump's record of probity, I can understand the Times' obligation to do this./1 nyti.ms/2StfVHX
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