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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRepeat After Me, "It Will Never Be 'Normal' Again." : Wry Wing Politics
Good article (IMHO)
https://www.wrywingpolitics.com/repeat-after-me-it-will-never-be-normal-again/
There are separate discussions to be had about both, as there are over Bob Woodwards Rage, the New York Times Michael Schmidts, Donald Trump v. The United States and top Mueller prosecutor Andrew Weissmans Where the Law Ends.
But one stark takeaway from Toobin and Stelter is how completely unprepared the establishment was for Donald Trump. More to the point both are argue, is how unprepared traditional legal bureaucracies and journalism organizations still are even today, nearly four years and 20,000 lies after Trump was elected the first time.
Yavin4
(35,433 posts)was helping Republicans.
That alone should have told everyone that norms are dead.
not_the_one
(2,227 posts)No one stopped it from happening, which means it CAN happen again. That is what this particular bout of chaos has achieved.
Unless legislation is passed to prevent this shit from EVER happening again, IT WILL. I am sure that is/was Putin's secondary goal.
How many times before this has Congress watered down any meaningful legislation to the point of it being useless, as a result of "compromise"?
We are supposed to WANT bipartisan action, using compromise to achieve advancement.
But when the other side insists on controlling women's bodies, when they insist on injecting THEIR religion into every aspect of civil/political/educational reform, when they insist that total and absolute equality is NOT the goal of our American democratic experiment, bipartisan compromise is not, and SHOULD not be acceptable.
We now have to make our politicians understand. Half ass attempts, while bargaining away the very tenets that is our core, is NOT acceptable.
redstatebluegirl
(12,265 posts)I expect the same this time as long as we get the Senate. There will be a ton of legislation if we have all three branches this time.