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applegrove

(118,639 posts)
Sat Mar 7, 2020, 07:39 PM Mar 2020

Opinion: Republicans are still America's biggest threat

BY RMUSE

Opinion: Republicans are still America’s biggest threat

https://www.politicususa.com/2020/03/07/opinion-republicans-are-still-americas-biggest-threat.html


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No human being with a conscience, a belief in American values, or a semi-functioning moral compass would dispute the fact that Donald Trump is a despicable human being. Simply put, Trump should never have been allowed to occupy a place he has no right even visiting, and it is an opinion no small number of Republicans held prior to Trump’s unlikely victory in 2016.

That so-called victory enabled Trump to lead the GOP’s long-running assault on America, its people, and its constitutionally-protected democratic institutions. It is easy to lay all blame on Trump for America’s rapid demise as a representative democracy, but the real blame belongs to Republicans in Congress. Trump is only executing policies Republicans have advocated for decades, and they willingly allow Trump to violate constitutionally-mandated procedures to maintain his loyalty to their causes.

No matter how one assesses the current state of American politics, it is no exaggeration to claim that Republicans have willingly abdicated their constitutionally-mandated responsibility to hold the leader of the Executive Branch to his sworn oath to support the nation’s founding document. The sad truth is that the assault on the Constitution, and the American people, began long before Trump’s poorly-attended inauguration. And, they will continue unabated regardless of Trump’s absurd tenure in the Oval Office.

There is little doubt that if a Democrat in the White House acted like the rule of law and the Constitution did not apply to them, congressional Republicans would have impeached and removed them with extreme prejudice. This is certainly true because when Republicans were convinced that former Secretary of State Hillary Clinton would easily win the 2016 presidential election, theyannounced plans to spend the next four years investigating the same issues they spent the previous four years investigating only to “find nothing.” Their goal was to quickly impeach Hillary Clinton after she was sworn in office after the election.

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Opinion: Republicans are still America's biggest threat (Original Post) applegrove Mar 2020 OP
Better said as: Republicans out of control greed and ignorance peddling is the greatest threat? Brainfodder Mar 2020 #1
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Brainfodder

(6,423 posts)
1. Better said as: Republicans out of control greed and ignorance peddling is the greatest threat?
Sat Mar 7, 2020, 07:46 PM
Mar 2020

The Fox News crowd is living in a different world, might need buses and tasers/cattle prods at the ready to relocate them to re-education camps, is that what it will take?

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