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The Vichy leaders Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan will remain as supine as ever, hoping they land their beloved deep tax cuts in the bargain. Yet even that aim is in jeopardy now that Trump seems determined to alienate some of the 50 senators he needs to get a bill to his desk. It looks like “repeal and replace” déjà vu all over again. But McConnell and Ryan are in too deep, too compromised morally, and too in hock to their donors to bolt now.
They still fail to concede that legislation is not Trump’s aim, not even classic conservative GOP legislation like tax cuts. We have a president who doesn’t know how a bill becomes a law and doesn’t give a damn. With Bannon as his wingman, his aim is to blow up the Republican Party, purge it of a feckless and tired Establishment, and remake it with his own shock troops into a nativist and nationalist regime.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligence...-jeff-flake-couldnt-bring-himself-to-say.html
Pragmatists. Jellyfish. Enablers. Family.
I’ve got a better one. Collaborators.
Our devilish bargain arose from a democratically conducted election, and the delusional notion, held by a minority, that a blowhard narcissist ignorant of both history and truth might be the great white hope for fame, fortune and a big fat tax cut.
The word — literally, “work together” — was corrupted more than half a century ago by French citizens who helped facilitate real Nazi atrocities thanks to a deal cut with Adolf Hitler. By insisting his countrymen tread “the path of collaboration” with the German invaders, the French leader, Marshal Pétain, turned the term into a death sentence. Thousands were executed after the war, many more publicly humiliated and stripped of their rights. Be careful who you work with.
http://billmoyers.com/story/collaboration-be-careful-who-you-work-with/
President Trump’s decision to accept the debt-ceiling deal pushed by Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, shocked conservatives floated rumors that they’d target Paul Ryan’s Speakership to help their agenda, and the Times described Trump as “in many ways, the first independent” in the White House in more than a century.
Before this one brief shining moment of “bipartisanship” goes up in smoke, we must relish the sheer delight of watching Trump stiff Ryan and Mitch McConnell in favor of his new besties, “Chuck and Nancy.” It didn’t turn out well for the Vichy collaborators in World War II, and the same fate in one way or another will befall those Republican leaders who abandoned whatever principles they had once Trump occupied their party. History will be merciless to them, but how much fun to watch them reduced to thunderstruck supernumeraries in real time.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligence...-trumps-independence-is-a-complete-farce.html
After the Nazis invaded France in 1940, the countries signed the Franco-German Armistice, an agreement that split the country into two zones: the German-occupied northern and western France, and the “unoccupied” southern and eastern France. In the unoccupied zone, the Germans installed a puppet government in Vichy, led by World War I hero Philippe Pétain. He acted on behalf of the Nazi invaders, arresting members of the French Resistance fighters and deporting almost 80,000 Jews.
When the Allied forces liberated France following the D-Day landings in Normandy, French Resistance members and Allied troops overthrew the Vichy occupation, establishing a provisional government that would usher in France’s Fourth Republic. Trials against members of the Vichy regime continued in France up until the 1990s.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smar...cuments-public-180957661/#qMfRW3ygy2J5KLcd.99
They still fail to concede that legislation is not Trump’s aim, not even classic conservative GOP legislation like tax cuts. We have a president who doesn’t know how a bill becomes a law and doesn’t give a damn. With Bannon as his wingman, his aim is to blow up the Republican Party, purge it of a feckless and tired Establishment, and remake it with his own shock troops into a nativist and nationalist regime.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligence...-jeff-flake-couldnt-bring-himself-to-say.html
Pragmatists. Jellyfish. Enablers. Family.
I’ve got a better one. Collaborators.
Our devilish bargain arose from a democratically conducted election, and the delusional notion, held by a minority, that a blowhard narcissist ignorant of both history and truth might be the great white hope for fame, fortune and a big fat tax cut.
The word — literally, “work together” — was corrupted more than half a century ago by French citizens who helped facilitate real Nazi atrocities thanks to a deal cut with Adolf Hitler. By insisting his countrymen tread “the path of collaboration” with the German invaders, the French leader, Marshal Pétain, turned the term into a death sentence. Thousands were executed after the war, many more publicly humiliated and stripped of their rights. Be careful who you work with.
http://billmoyers.com/story/collaboration-be-careful-who-you-work-with/
President Trump’s decision to accept the debt-ceiling deal pushed by Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi, shocked conservatives floated rumors that they’d target Paul Ryan’s Speakership to help their agenda, and the Times described Trump as “in many ways, the first independent” in the White House in more than a century.
Before this one brief shining moment of “bipartisanship” goes up in smoke, we must relish the sheer delight of watching Trump stiff Ryan and Mitch McConnell in favor of his new besties, “Chuck and Nancy.” It didn’t turn out well for the Vichy collaborators in World War II, and the same fate in one way or another will befall those Republican leaders who abandoned whatever principles they had once Trump occupied their party. History will be merciless to them, but how much fun to watch them reduced to thunderstruck supernumeraries in real time.
http://nymag.com/daily/intelligence...-trumps-independence-is-a-complete-farce.html
After the Nazis invaded France in 1940, the countries signed the Franco-German Armistice, an agreement that split the country into two zones: the German-occupied northern and western France, and the “unoccupied” southern and eastern France. In the unoccupied zone, the Germans installed a puppet government in Vichy, led by World War I hero Philippe Pétain. He acted on behalf of the Nazi invaders, arresting members of the French Resistance fighters and deporting almost 80,000 Jews.
When the Allied forces liberated France following the D-Day landings in Normandy, French Resistance members and Allied troops overthrew the Vichy occupation, establishing a provisional government that would usher in France’s Fourth Republic. Trials against members of the Vichy regime continued in France up until the 1990s.
https://www.smithsonianmag.com/smar...cuments-public-180957661/#qMfRW3ygy2J5KLcd.99
