This one’s also interesting, Anderson Cooper gives his considered opinion, which sounded reasonable enough, well as far as it went, then Brian Tyler Cohen steps up, and starts poking holes into Anderson’s reasoning by reminded us of the bigger picture.
May 12, 2023 - Brian Tyler Cohen
(besides anyone that has to repeatedly remind us: “I get that”, doesn’t freak’n get it.)
Georgia Secretary of State Brad Raffensperger responds to former President Trump’s comments during CNN’s Republican presidential town hall about him and their call regarding the 2020 election. #CNN #News
We many have a less than healthy democracy, but by golly we do still have a democracy!
Use It Or Loss It!
That means more rational voters need to get informed and engaged, because a huge faction of the GOP has embraced a self-fabricated War against anyone who doesn’t kowtow to their extremism, their totalitarian white-supremest, corporate overlords worshipping tendencies.
. . . Republicans got what they wanted. Now, they risk being destroyed by it.
The Republican party today is messy, internally divided, filled with self-serving carnival-barkers like Trump and his descendants – George Santos, Marjorie Taylor Greene, Lauren Boebert, Matt Gaetz – more interested in garnering publicity for themselves than in securing electoral or policy victories for their party, and most of all, beholden to positions, most notably on abortion, that inflict untold suffering and are increasingly abhorrent to the average voter.
Republicans propose sadistic abortion bans that are unpopular with voters, then reject amendments that would allow doctors to save women’s lives without fear of prosecution – making a self-righteous display of their own femicidal barbarity.
They enact bans on transgender girls in sports and harness the full power of the state against trans student athletes – who number, in many states, fewer than a dozen.
Although party elites periodically propose alternatives to Trump . . .
Even the French can see the optics loud and clear,
Party is out of control
NEWS ANALYSIS - Piotr Smolar, Washington (United States) correspondent
The Republican Party likes to lose. Or maybe it’s developing masochistic tendencies and Stockholm syndrome vis-à-vis Donald Trump, the man who has been changing its face and holding it hostage for seven years. Is that an exaggeration?
Hardly, given the last few months of American political life, rich in lessons for the presidential election of 2024. They show a Grand Old Party (GOP) out of control, unable to learn the lessons of recent elections, in terms of its public face and its political agenda. Even condemnation of political violence has become too high a bar to cross.
The United States had never seen an incumbent president be defeated in his re-election bid and then succeed in staying on top. Since November 2020, Trump has managed this feat. …
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