"Except for James Comey. Feel free to blame him all you want."
read more: Stop It! There Are No Big Lessons From the 2016 Election. | Mother Jones
"Except for James Comey. Feel free to blame him all you want."
read more: Stop It! There Are No Big Lessons From the 2016 Election. | Mother Jones
Only one thing warranted repeated attacks by the Head of the FBI in the lat ten days of the campaign. It wasn't Russia. It was email servers. Only one of those served the purposes of Comey's friends in the House of Representatives.
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"In recent decades, Democrats and Republicans rarely agreed on substance, but all candidates for major office were expected to adhere to fundamental ethical norms, like “don’t threaten to jail your opponent” and “don’t celebrate sexual assault.” Mr. Trump’s victory signals that that world, with the assurances it offered that there were some lines those seeking power wouldn’t cross (or that the American electorate wouldn’t let them cross), is no longer. Rightly or wrongly, memories have been activated of historical traumas linked with anti-democratic politics, such as the emergence of fascism in interwar Europe and the rise of Senator Joseph McCarthy in the 1950s."
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