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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJohn Dean: From cunning crooks to war crimes criminals to corrupt authoritarians. It is all downhill
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John Dean ✔ @JohnWDean
Modern GOP has given us Nixon, Agnew, Bush II, Cheney, and now Trump and Pence. Plus the Religious Right, Tea Party, Freedom Caucus and the NRAs every wishes. From cunning crooks to war crimes criminals to corrupt authoritarians. It is all downhill, and getting worse fast.
2:02 AM - Oct 12, 2019
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John Dean: From cunning crooks to war crimes criminals to corrupt authoritarians. It is all downhill (Original Post)
Dennis Donovan
Oct 2019
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If Dean's tweet wasn't limited by character counts, he also should have said Iran-Contra.
Efilroft Sul
Oct 2019
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calimary
(81,527 posts)1. The GOP should go extinct - so the rest of us won't have to.
RobertDevereaux
(1,858 posts)3. Precisely!
DemocracyMouse
(2,275 posts)5. So well put!
PatrickforO
(14,594 posts)8. You said it. nt
Efilroft Sul
(3,584 posts)2. If Dean's tweet wasn't limited by character counts, he also should have said Iran-Contra.
Because fuck Ronald Reagan.
RainCaster
(10,928 posts)4. Dean forgot about McTurtle - Chao, and all the molesters
dalton99a
(81,636 posts)6. The cancer must be removed.
zentrum
(9,865 posts)7. And taking us with it.
He left out their racism and anti-immigrant hatred, which is the root of their support among the Base.
pangaia
(24,324 posts)9. No Reagan and Bush 1 ?
Scalia, Thomas, Kavanaugh,..
should I go on?