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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsKRUGMAN: the G.O.P. has become a systematic enabler of terrorism. Why? Follow the money.
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The central story of U.S. politics since the 1970s is the takeover of the Republican Party by economic radicals, determined to slash taxes for the wealthy while undermining the social safety net.
With the arguable exception of George H.W. Bush, every Republican president since 1980 has pushed through tax cuts that disproportionately benefited the 1 percent while trying to defund and/or privatize key social programs like Social Security, Medicare, Medicaid and the Affordable Care Act.
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In effect, then, the Republican Party decided that a few massacres were an acceptable price to pay in return for tax cuts. I wish that were hyperbole, but the continuing refusal of G.O.P. figures to criticize Trump even after El Paso shows that its the literal truth.
So as I said at the beginning, the G.O.P. has become a systematic enabler of terrorism. Why? Follow the money.
MORE:
https://www.reddit.com/r/neoliberal/comments/cmp1yi/trump_tax_cuts_and_terrorism_why_do_republicans/
https://www.nytimes.com/2019/08/05/opinion/republicans-white-terrorism.html
https://www.dailykos.com/stories/2019/8/6/1877096/-If-You-Only-Read-One-Thing-Today-Read-Paul-Krugman-Trump-Tax-Cuts-and-Terrorism?utm_campaign=trending
dalton99a
(81,073 posts)And the poor? They should pray harder
Botany
(70,291 posts)Having a black president drove "them" crazy.
LiberalArkie
(15,686 posts)mad and destructive. The U.S. is not the nation we think it is.
Botany
(70,291 posts)... hearts but now I think it is >35%. I don't know how many times I heard the stupid phrase,
"Well, at least we stopped Hillary." after the 2016 election. Did you know that she had somebody
killed to hide Bill's cocaine operation?
But at the end of the day HRC really won the election and yet Trump sits in the White House thanx
to Russia, other counties, and American traitors.
robbob
(3,514 posts)These people have been borderline nuts for decades.
Wounded Bear
(58,440 posts)Foreign or homegrown, doesn't matter. Fighting terror makes for big profits.
Vogon_Glory
(9,086 posts)For once Im not entirely sure I believe him. There may be a trace of exaggeration.
But if Krugman IS exaggerating, it isnt by very much.
And in the meantime the Republican Party is busy turning the USA into a genuine $h1t-hole Country with whatever tools it has available.
bucolic_frolic
(42,679 posts)But now fear is induced by terrorism and it's not going down well