Krugman: nearly all Republicans in todays Congress are apparatchiks,....
I immediately thought of Paul Ryan and his comment --shut up, shut up, We are FAMILY! as I read this article.
**I had to look up the definition
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https://www.merriam-webster.com/dictionary/apparatchik
Definition of apparatchik
plural apparatchiks also apparatchikiplay -chi-kē
1
: a member of a Communist apparat
2
: a blindly devoted official, follower, or member of an organization (such as a corporation or political party) a movie studio apparatchik
See apparatchik defined for English-language learners
Paul Krugman: Republicans don’t give a damn about the country or its Constitution
http://www.rawstory.com/2017/05/paul-krugman-republicans-dont-give-a-damn-about-the-country-or-its-constitution/?comments=disqus
Jacob Sugarman, AlterNet
20 May 2017 at 09:58 ET
..................Surely Republicans, who hold majorities in the House and the Senate, have finally heard enough. Even a party that nominated a candidate manifestly unfit for any office, much less president of the United States, has to put country first at some point, right?
Not so much, laments Paul Krugman.
In his Friday column, he argues that it’s better to think of the GOP not as a party, but as a political apparatus for movement conservatism—a monolith buttressed by a handful of exorbitantly wealthy families. Its governing philosophy is tax cuts for the rich, which it will defend at all cost.
“This structure…rewards, indeed insists on, absolute fealty,” Krugman writes. “What this means is that nearly all Republicans in today’s Congress are apparatchiks, political creatures with no higher principle beyond party loyalty.”
This explains why Paul Ryan and the rest of the Republican leadership refuse to hold a demonstrably unstable president to account, and likely won’t unless he proves a political liability in 2018 and beyond. These scandals could rage on for months or even years if the Democrats don’t prevail in the Georgia and Montana House elections. But even if Trump is removed from office, Krugman reasons, “the threat to the Republic will be far from over.”
“In a perverse way, we should count ourselves lucky that Trump is as terrible as he is,” he observes, ominously. “The point is that given the character of the Republican Party, we’d be well on the way to autocracy if the man in the White House had even slightly more self-control. Trump may have done himself in; but it can still happen here.”
Read Paul Krugman’s column at the New York Times...........................
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after Lenin's principles of total dirty war on any opponent, in Newt's case this was the liberal establishment.
The modern GOP has matured somewhat, but it's still us vs them 24/7 whether there is an election or not.
Then, apparently starting in 2014, (after Putin stole his election and Hillary said Everyone knows Putin stole the election,"
my sources tell me there was a massive infiltration of DC institutions by Russian agents. They had an agenda. It was Destroy Hillary and the US. We are only starting to unwind their tentacles. CIA, FBI, congress, you name it, they all had new foreign friends. Or Russia-friendly friends. It only took a few to make a difference, it seems..
Now Newt will get his wish to destroy the US government and let the people suffer
