re: #46 Hecuba’s daughter

IOKIYAR

I think IOKIYAR has been exacerbated by Trump. Yesterday, Cornyn said of the whole secret writing of the Senate bill, to be voted on a week after the reveal, “I can’t imagine a more transparent process.”

This is PLAINLY a bald faced lie, the kind that a couple years ago, he might have been too cautious to try. But Trump proved that Republicans literally DO NOT CARE about honesty, or truth, or reality. And as a result, you see Republicans saying their process was no more secretive than the ACA process, because at the time the ACA was being developed, they CLAIMED it was all a secret process they had no input on.

This is dangerous, because people who have no scruples or shame (I’m looking at YOU, Mitch McConnell) are finding that there’s no price to be paid for any transgression. They can literally do whatever they want and get away with it. And for a party that has lacked real principles for a long time, this is a very dangerous development. They basically become the kid in the candy store.