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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsJoe Scarborough in Scathing Op-Ed: The GOP Trump Leads 'No Longer Deserves to Survive'
https://www.mediaite.com/trump/joe-scarborough-in-scathing-op-ed-the-gop-trump-leads-no-longer-deserves-to-survive/Calling to task the members of GOP, he wrote this:
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It strains credulity to believe that any Republican would be so foolish as to defend the diplomatic debacle that led one European newspaper to call the U.S. president Putins Poodle.' Scarborough continued on. Even at home, Rupert Murdochs New York Post blasted Trumps see-no-evil approach, and the Wall Street Journal editorialized that Congress needed to develop a containment strategy for both Vladimir Putin and Trump.
The MSNBC host then concluded by declaring in wake of Helsinki, one thing has become clear: The GOP Trump leads no longer deserves to survive.
But regardless of the verdicts ultimately handed down by historians and the special counsels office, the Helsinki summit brought two distressing realities into even sharper focus, he wrote. The president of the United States is under the thumb of Putin. And the Republican Party he leads no longer deserves to survive.
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Full op-ed here:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/who-are-you-and-what-have-you-done-with-my-party/2018/07/19/4827d7a8-8b7c-11e8-a345-a1bf7847b375_story.html
kentuck
(111,094 posts)Then Putin and Trump presently have control of our government. The "Party of Putin" is the Party of America at this time.
If we do not get out and vote this November, we will get the "government" we deserve.
Garrett78
(10,721 posts)There wouldn't be enough support for right wing economic policy, right wing environmental policy, right wing health care policy, and so on. Not without racism (including xenophobia). I don't think sexism, as rampant as it is, could sustain that party.
wasupaloopa
(4,516 posts)morning and going to FL to meet with him.
Rings hollow to me to read this
sandensea
(21,635 posts)The worst (to me) was his constant "this is Obama's economy" - in 2009.
OnDoutside
(19,956 posts)mr_liberal
(1,017 posts)a Republican opponent she could beat.
erlewyne
(1,115 posts)I quit watching moaning joe years ago because he was so two-faced
and always came back in support of the GOP ... he would knock
the G.O.P. and then come back in the end and applaud them!
Joe knows and Rachel implies ... spurs is a spy!
dansolo
(5,376 posts)Not Putin's
czarjak
(11,274 posts)Its gonna be Hillaryious, believe me.
Scurrilous
(38,687 posts)beachbum bob
(10,437 posts)capitalized on the trump run. it was so cute at the time...and now you have what we have because of people like YOU
lindysalsagal
(20,684 posts)So an ex-gop congressman can't ignore or excuse frump's russian money laundering. If this ever gets exposed, maybe it will be by scarface who finally admits to taking filthy russian money.