re: #158 The Pie Overlord!

Every alarm bell should be ringing right now.

This is an INCREDIBLY dangerous post. This is fascism. This is Gestapo shit, right here.

This is Trump using the power of the office to threaten the rights of those who oppose him.

THIS [is] everything Republicans claim they fear.

on topic, electoral-vote.com this AM has a 4 part mini-series on this very thing

“Pay no attention to the man behind the curtain,” because the party’s actions today
have nothing to do with their stated platform, nor the things they’ve been screaming that they were ‘for’ for the last 100 years

it’ll take you 5 minutes to read about
- immigrants
- upward mobility
- regulations
- conservation

the conclusion:

With that said, it is striking how often, and how overtly, the actions of Donald Trump and his administration run contrary to the stated platform of the Party and, more importantly, to the GOP’s longstanding core principles. And we only brought up the things that came up in the last week or so; we didn’t even touch on subjects like the Republicans’ newfound disregard for exploding the deficit, or for reining in Russia, or for partnering with the nation’s longstanding European allies.

So, we conclude where we started: This is a Party with a serious identity problem. They are holding on to some past idea of what the GOP is, at least for “smoke and mirrors” purposes, but they most certainly aren’t that party anymore.