Burning down the House
That’s why when people ask me who I support for president, Bernie Sanders or Hillary Clinton, I tell them I don’t care. So long as the T-party controls state legislatures and the Congress, who Democrats elect as president won’t matter. If it’s Bernie, a GOP-led Congress will stonewall. If it’s Hillary, a GOP-led Congress will stonewall. Just as they have done with Obama. I care deeply that someone from the saner side of the aisle gets the next three Supreme Court picks. (Good luck getting them past a T-party Senate.) Other than that, I can’t get excited about who will do the picking, so long as the candidate sends lawyers, guns and money to North Carolina. That is where my fight is.
A Bernie Sanders supporter asked yesterday, but what about coattails? Coattails, I cannot quantify. State legislative seats and U.S. House and Senate seats I can count.
It seems the GOP’s base knows that long-term demographic trends are against them. Here, it seems the T-party legislature is determined to ram through every piece of fringe, ALEC, tax-cutting, privatizing, education-slashing, and voter-suppressing measure it can before the public turns against them. I have long said that the Republican Party is acting out one of those dreary murder ballads with America. If they cannot have America for their own, they just might burn it down. John Boehner can relate. That is why Digby quoted Rick Perlstein yesterday: “Take demagogues seriously. Voters love them. And they’re only a joke until they win.”
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