re: #185 LeftyRambles2413 (HappyWarrior)

That’s right. So yeah I can handle having Rubin as an ally. Doesn’t mean I agree with her general philosophy but she understands the present situation which is to her credit. She’s been after Trump and his enablers from the start. Meanwhile there were some left wing dumbasses who convinced themselves that Clinton was worse than Trump. I’m more angry at them than I am Rubin.

Case in point for Rubin:

The descent of the GOP into authoritarian know-nothingism

It is not as if anti-intellectualism suddenly appeared with the election of President Trump. The habitual rejection of expertise on everything from climate change to the economic impact of immigration has been rampant in the Republican Party for some time…

Trump has merged the know-nothingism of right-wing populism with a far more dangerous intellectual evolution from defense of limited-government conservatism, which was formerly at the heart of modern conservatism, to outright worship of authoritarianism. Now, far too many conservatives have reverence for executive power and reject constitutional government.

washingtonpost.com