Good time to see which people are genuine conservatives vs those who are happy to go along with destroying checks and balances for short-run goals
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Brendan Nyhan
Conservative budget wonks (Manhattan Instiutte, Tax Foundation) confirming that this is a consittutional crisis. Not liberal hysteria. Happening right now.
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These other guys? They buy a sterilized, but no less dogshit philosophy that represents the core of everything we're seeing right now.
We need to relegate "conservatism" to the dustbin of history where it belongs.
Trump orders someone to break the law. Trump, immune from prosecution, pardons law breaker. Changes stand. Only check is impeachment and Republicans have shown us twice that they are uninterested in holding him to account.
I mean, Reince Freaking Priebus, GOP Chairman during all of 2016, became Trump's first Chief of Staff.
For Republicans, the campaign ends when the primary does, then they seek for any reason to vote for the candidate.
Democrats meanwhile then say votes have to be "earned" and search for any reason to stay home.
The Democratic party's goal is to make money. Achieving their agenda goes counter to that goal.
This is the Batman and Joker. They need each other. We're bystander casualties.
House power of the
Purse.
Trump is an accomplice to it and should be impeached.