Politico: a verbose expansion of ... Alex's Sig? "He would probably be a dictator by now"
is the Title.
(Another pair who, I guess: never heard of "It Can't Happen Here/1935!") nor delved into Father Coughlin, yet-another wacko-preacher
whose radio audience was Large.. (cf. My Gramma/cut from same 'cloth', as they say.)
Carrion ...
it's seeping under the doors all over now, but the sense-of-smell is ..drowned out by the Circus calliope's loud omnipresence.
[. . .]
Boot: I think the ascendancy of Trump has revealed two very unflattering things about the Republican Party. One of which Eliot is referring to when he talks about the spinelessness and pusillanimity of the Republicans in Washington. But it also reveals something about the Republican grassroots, which is something even uglier, I think, because there is a lot of prejudice, racism, homophobia, all sorts of dark impulses out there, that I think were largely kept cloaked when you had leaders of the party like Mitt Romney and John McCain, who were fine individuals who did not appeal to the dark side of human nature.
But Donald Trump is not a fine individual and he appeals to that dark side, and he has shown how much of the support for Republican candidates around the country is based on some of these dark impulses. And frankly, to me, it’s been unnerving. It’s been deeply disturbing as somebody who was a life-long Republican, because what I see happening is that a lot of the criticisms the Democrats have made about Republicans—and which I resisted for years—have actually been vindicated.
Cohen: I’m a little bit less disturbed than Max is, I think, because—I mean, I feel that I was naïve. I didn’t realize the extent of some of the dark stuff that’s out there. But you know, I’ve been recently reading a lot about the ’20s and ’30s. And boy, that was much darker. And so, okay, what I’m realizing is, yes, these forces have always been here. They do periodically go underground, and they reemerge. But even to the extent they’ve reemerged, they haven’t reemerged the way they were in the ’20s and ’30s. Okay, that means that this is our turn, and it’s our responsibility to point them out, and stand up against them.
[. . .]
(Another pair who, I guess: never heard of "It Can't Happen Here/1935!") nor delved into Father Coughlin, yet-another wacko-preacher
whose radio audience was Large.. (cf. My Gramma/cut from same 'cloth', as they say.)
Carrion ...
it's seeping under the doors all over now, but the sense-of-smell is ..drowned out by the Circus calliope's loud omnipresence.