Robert Reich: Republicans Are Afraid Trump Is Genuinely Nuts

[KingOrfeo]

After a trip to Washington:

My verdict:

1. Washington is more divided, angry, bewildered, and fearful – than I’ve ever seen it.

2. The angry divisions aren’t just Democrats versus Republicans. Rancor is also exploding inside the Republican Party.

3. Republicans (and their patrons in big business) no longer believe Trump will give them cover to do what they want to do. They’re becoming afraid Trump is genuinely nuts, and he’ll pull the party down with him.

4. Many Republicans are also angry at Paul Ryan, whose replacement bill for Obamacare is considered by almost everyone on Capitol Hill to be incredibly dumb.

5. I didn’t talk with anyone inside the White House, but several who have had dealings with it called it a cesspool of intrigue and fear. Apparently everyone working there hates and distrusts everyone else.

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10. Many people asked, bewilderedly, “how did this [Trump] happen?” When I suggest it had a lot to do with the 35-year-long decline of incomes of the bottom 60 percent; the growing sense, ever since the Wall Street bailout, that the game is rigged; and the utter failure of both Republicans and Democrats to reverse these trends – they gave me blank stares.

 

[LadyVer]

Trump is a heartless, souless nut. The GOP has no balls. A perfect storm.

 

[Christobal]

Robert Reich. A total partisan. Yeah I give no thought to his opinion. Kinda like when Bill O'reilly tells me something.

 

[FakeNews]

Robert Reich's Top Ten Wishlist for After Election Day May Not Be So Farfetched

1. Hillary Clinton is elected President.

2. Democrats take over the Senate, and reduce the Republican margin in the House to just 3 votes.

3. Elizabeth Warren announces she’ll challenge Hillary in the 2020 Democratic primaries if Hillary isn’t sufficiently progressive and bold during her first term.

4. The Democratic National Committee issues new rules eliminating “superdelegates” and requiring open primaries.

5. In her inaugural address, Hillary Clinton promises to “wrest back control of our democracy and economy from the moneyed interests that have taken over both.”

6. President Hillary Clinton nominates Barack Obama to the Supreme Court, who immediately pledges to reverse “Citizens United.” Senate Democrats make a rule change that allows Obama to be confirmed with 51 Senate votes. He is.

7. President Clinton nominates Bernie Sanders for Treasury Secretary and Michelle Obama for Attorney General. Both are immediately confirmed.

8. The chairman of the Republican Party officially repudiates Donald Trump, saying “shame on us for having nominated him.” Mitch McConnell, Newt Gingrich, Rudy Giuliani, and Mike Pence appear in a joint news conference in which they apologize for having ever supported Trump.

9. Disgraced and with his brand in tatters, the value of Trump’s properties drops 80 percent. His creditors demand that his personal assets – homes, planes, furniture, all he possesses – be liquidated to pay his bills.

10. Rupert Murdoch fires Sean Hannity from Fox News.

http://www.alternet.org/election-20...t-after-election-day-may-not-be-so-farfetched

 

[KingOrfeo]

Robert Reich. A total partisan. Yeah I give no thought to his opinion. Kinda like when Bill O'reilly tells me something.

It's not the same. Reich is honest.

 

[trysail]

The fucking midget Robert B. Reich is a sanctimonious, hypocritical prat with the most affected voice and speech pattern it's ever been my bad luck to encounter.

Reich is a complete phony. His whole shtick is a bald-faced appeal to the base instincts of jealousy and envy. Intelligent people see right through him.

He is the worst kind of Machiavellian.




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[LadyVer]

Midget? How partisan.

 

[Christobal]

It's not the same. Reich is honest.

Reisch sees the way he wants see he wants. I believe he thinks he is honest but his world view is just wrong and is out of his touch.

 

[BotanyBoy]

It's not the same. Reich is honest.

https://media.giphy.com/media/L8XuphFGqlSfe/giphy.gif

 

[trysail]

Has that clown ever had a real job ?
(no one with any sense calls his endless yapping anything other than what it is— pure demagogic noise designed to appeal to the "something for nothing" mob and the credulous, delusional believers in free lunches).


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[RobDownSouth]

Robert Reich. A total partisan. Yeah I give no thought to his opinion. Kinda like when Bill O'reilly tells me something.

Reich is opinionated, but he crafts a good argument.
Comparing him to professional blowhard Bill O'Reilly is just plain ignorant.

 

[KingOrfeo]

Reich is opinionated, but he crafts a good argument.

And I've never known him to be wrong.

 

[Wrong Element]

Has that clown ever had a real job ?
(no one with any sense calls his endless yapping anything other than what it is— pure demagogic noise designed to appeal to the "something for nothing" mob and the credulous, delusional believers in free lunches).


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A "real job," like someone who spends half the day riding a bike and the other half bragging about it?

I'd bet Reich has written more books than your president has ever read.

 

[BotanyBoy]

A "real job," like someone who spends half the day riding a bike and the other half bragging about it?

I'd bet Reich has written more books than your president has ever read.

He's your president too.

 

[RobDownSouth]

Has that clown ever had a real job ?

Here you go, ignorant one: Wikipedia

I'd venture to say he's held more jobs than you have.

 

[Parminderjeet]

Trump is a heartless, souless nut. The GOP has no balls. A perfect storm.

This. Everyone is shit scared to stand up to the idiot. Party before honor.

 

[james_1957]

A "real job," like someone who spends half the day riding a bike and the other half bragging about it?

I'd bet Reich has written more books than your president has ever read.

President Donald Trump.

Thanks for Ohio's 18 electoral votes!

 

[Christobal]

Reich is opinionated, but he crafts a good argument.
Comparing him to professional blowhard Bill O'Reilly is just plain ignorant.

That is what we all say when someone is compared to an obvious similar other viewpoint that is way left or right of center. They are both blow hards. The fact you can't see that is telling.

 

[KingOrfeo]

That is what we all say when someone is compared to an obvious similar other viewpoint that is way left or right of center. They are both blow hards. The fact you can't see that is telling.

Reich is no blowhard. He writes and speaks in an informed and rational way.

 

[trysail]

A "real job," like someone who spends half the day riding a bike and the other half bragging about it?

I'd bet Reich has written more books than your president has ever read.

Your ignorance is obvious. That you jump to stupid conclusions based on that ignorance is entertaining and amusing.




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[Christobal]

Reich is no blowhard. He writes and speaks in an informed and rational way.

Of course he does because you agree with him. But all those other people are just crazy. Tolerant much of other viewpoints?

 

[trysail]

Reich consciously shapes his appeals to simpering fools. The credulous believers in utopian flights of fancy are drawn to him like flies to shit.



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[RobDownSouth]

That is what we all say when someone is compared to an obvious similar other viewpoint that is way left or right of center. They are both blow hards. The fact you can't see that is telling.

When you compare Reich's curriculum vitae to O'Reilly's, and to then attempt to conflate them as two sides of the same coin, you engage in False Equivalency, something usually practiced by the likes of Connie the Tranny and BotanyBoy.

The fact that you continue to cling to your discredited hypothesis is telling.

 

[Christobal]

When you compare Reich's curriculum vitae to O'Reilly's, and to then attempt to conflate them as two sides of the same coin, you engage in False Equivalency, something usually practiced by the likes of Connie the Tranny and BotanyBoy.

The fact that you continue to cling to your discredited hypothesis is telling.

Keep clinging to that if it makes you feel better. Your guy is good and everyone else is misinformed. They are just stupid. The poor souls just aren't smart enough to understand.

Edited to add

Who is Connie the Tranny and why did you feel the need to slap that name on he/she?

 

[SgtSpiderMan]

The fucking midget Robert B. Reich is a sanctimonious, hypocritical prat with the most affected voice and speech pattern it's ever been my bad luck to encounter.

Reich is a complete phony. His whole shtick is a bald-faced appeal to the base instincts of jealousy and envy. Intelligent people see right through him.

He is the worst kind of Machiavellian.




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Speaking of seeing through people.