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BREAKING: Person who was sexually harassed by their boss spoke privately with a co-worker and then met with HR *before* filing a formal complaint.
IOW, “BREAKING” here could be swapped out for “TOTALLY EXPECTED AND PROCEDURALLY NORMAL.” Has the Times learned nothing from the late October Hillary email headline?
When you report non-news and call it BREAKING, you just feed the Trump/Fox propaganda machine. In the biz, I believe this is referred to as “doing the work of the propagandists for them.”
I mean, how could the person who wrote this tweet about this non-story had not known that this is how it would be redeployed by the White House today?
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This is your regular reminder that if only 4 Republican Senators decided to caucus with the Democrats, Mitch McConnell could be unseated as Leader of the Senate. So if Mitt Romney, Susan Collins, Ben Sasse, etc. actually wanted to do anything, this is one thing they could do.
The Republican Party is knowingly and actively complicit with everything Donald Trump is doing. They pretend like there's nothing they can do to rein him in, but that is just their cowardice speaking.
These people took an oath to defend the Constitution of the United States. If they believe the President is abusing his power, they have it in their power to hold him accountable today. So far, it appears their allegiance to the GOP trumps their allegiance to the Constitution.
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Reading Sean Wilentz's review of "American Carnage," in which he sees the roots of Trumpism in GWB's presidency, brought to mind the way Bush stoked the fires of homophobic bigotry to boost his electoral fortunes in 2004. nytimes.com/2004/02/24/pol…
Bush announced his support for a *Constitutional Amendment* to ban same-sex marriage the very week that he kicked off his re-election campaign.
His target audience had no trouble picking up what Bush was laying down. The "gay agenda" had to be stopped in order save "civilization."
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Historian Sean Wilentz reviews Tim Alberta’s “American Carnage.” I concur that the book’s constrained time scale obscures the deeper roots of Trumpism. The rot set in long before McCain picked Palin for VP. nybooks.com/articles/2019/…
I got almost 2/3 of the way through Alberta's book this summer before I had to switch out of summer mode. Here are some of my takeaways from what I think is ultimately a very important and insightful account of the last decade of GOP politics
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