From Digby. It's short, but it's truly jaw-dropping:
It's all very well and good to dismiss it as projection, but Fox's audience swallows it whole. And they vote. And, as Digy points out, these people are passionate about it -- at least, they do a good job of pretending to be passionate.
I don't think I have to restate the significant characteristics of this regime: petty, vindictive, self-absorbed, greedy, and mean-spirited. This is how it plays out in real life.
In case you were wondering, here's a little taste of what's being broadcast on Fox News 24/7:
SEAN HANNITY: Our mutual friend Mark Levin calls this a 'Post-Constitutional Republic,' this is now becoming a Banana Republic if this stays. Where do we go from here with what we now know?
NEWT GINGRICH: I haven't given up on America. I don't think Donald Trump has given up on America... most of our viewers haven't.
What we now know is the swamp is sicker, more corrupt, more dishonest than we thought it was.
So, we just have to dig deeper, throw the rascals out. Realize the election of 2018 is going to be truly historic. Between a radical left that is stunningly corrupt, and the rest of us.
This is a real fight for whether or not America is going to remain a Republic that is ruled by law, or whether it is going to degenerate into being a purely corrupt system of power, where if you're on the right team you can rip everybody off and be protected, if you're on the wrong team you can go to jail if you're innocent.
I think that is how serious and how profound this is right now. It is one of the great historic moments in American history.
It's all very well and good to dismiss it as projection, but Fox's audience swallows it whole. And they vote. And, as Digy points out, these people are passionate about it -- at least, they do a good job of pretending to be passionate.
In the real world, this is how the Trump regime deals with those who don't toe the line:Via Digby.
In 2015, a community policing initiative — one credited with helping curb violence in some of L.A.’s toughest housing projects — scored the Los Angeles Police Department high-level praise.
A captain and a sergeant who led the program were invited to Washington, D.C., earning coveted seats near the first lady during President Obama’s State of the Union address.
This year, L.A. officials applied for more than $3 million in federal funding to help bring the same program to Harvard Park, a South L.A. neighborhood scarred by violence.
The request was denied.
The U.S. Department of Justice hasn’t offered the LAPD an explanation of why the department didn’t receive any of the $98 million in grants recently awarded to scores of law enforcement agencies across the nation. A spokesman for the federal agency declined to comment when asked by The Times last week.
But after the Trump administration’s repeated threats to withhold federal money from cities that don’t cooperate with its immigration crackdown, some LAPD officials said they believe the move was retaliatory — and a troubling sign of what could come.
I don't think I have to restate the significant characteristics of this regime: petty, vindictive, self-absorbed, greedy, and mean-spirited. This is how it plays out in real life.
1 comment:
I am gobsmacked at the interchange I just read between Hannity and Gingrich. The country is, indeed, turning into a banana republic (without initial uppercase) but it's precisely because the Republicans are treating it like a restricted country club. When the White House "celebrates" Hanukkah by inviting not a single Democratic Jew from the House or the Senate, you know you're looking at small-minded people.
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