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Cary

(11,746 posts)
Thu Nov 3, 2016, 05:16 PM Nov 2016

Republicans in an all out war, duh

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/plum-line/wp/2016/11/03/republicans-are-now-vowing-total-war-and-the-consequences-could-be-immense/?utm_term=.40531944270f

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Republicans are now vowing Total War. And the consequences could be immense.

The election is just five days away, and something truly frightening is happening, something with far-reaching implications for the immediate future of American politics. Republicans, led by Donald Trump but by no means limited to him, are engaging in kind of termite-level assault on American democracy, one that looks on the surface as though it’s just aimed at Hillary Clinton, but in fact is undermining our entire system.

I know, my conservative friends will say that this kind of talk is just fear-mongering and exaggeration. But there is something deeply troubling happening right now, and it goes beyond the ordinary trading of blows in a campaign season. Consider these recent developments:

There appears to be a war going on inside the FBI, and from what we can tell, a group of rogue agents, mostly in New York, may be in such a fervor to destroy Hillary Clinton that they may be aggressively leaking damaging innuendo to the press against her in the waning days of the campaign. They succeeded in their apparent goal of making FBI director James Comey a tool of their campaign — and the basis for their investigation is an anti-Clinton book written under the auspices of an organization of which the CEO of the Trump campaign is co-founder and chairman. Pro-Trump FBI agents now seem to be coordinating with Trump surrogates to do maximal possible damage to Clinton.
Republicans continue to cheer the fact that the electronic systems of American political groups were illegally hacked,
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It is important to understand that is not normal. This is not just bare-knuckle politics. Something extraordinary is happening.
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Republicans in an all out war, duh (Original Post) Cary Nov 2016 OP
We need to destroy their gerrymandered places. BSdetect Nov 2016 #1
It's much deeper than that Cary Nov 2016 #2
Which begs the question...how the hell are they going to impartially investigate Dump's ties... Tarheel_Dem Nov 2016 #3

Tarheel_Dem

(31,234 posts)
3. Which begs the question...how the hell are they going to impartially investigate Dump's ties...
Thu Nov 3, 2016, 05:58 PM
Nov 2016

to Russia? And will it be a real investigation?

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