I'm cackling at unholy experiments with Nixon's cells. And, yeah, seriously, this man does indeed make Nixon look good. Hell, I've had kind words for GWB in the past few days, and I've been known to call his administration "Bushreich." Must the Republican Party keep lowering the bar for itself? (Also, there is something downright Kafkaesque about the fact that someone mentored by a good buddy of Joe McCarthy's now has ties to Russia. Like, we could probably replace fossil fuels with the energy from a turbine powered by the spinning that McCarthy is doing in his grave.)
And, yeah on the tactics--- though honestly, I've been doing a little general historical poking, and frankly I'm increasingly convinced that it's less that those tactics belong to the Tea Party and more that that's just kind of what Americans are supposed to be doing with our elected officials in general--- politics is sort of supposed to be, if not our favorite fandom, then at least second-favorite (or our favorite hatedom, depending ;) ). Because when you get down to it, we've done rather a lot of this sort of thing in our history, clear back to the nation's founding.
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Date: 2017-03-15 04:20 am (UTC)And, yeah on the tactics--- though honestly, I've been doing a little general historical poking, and frankly I'm increasingly convinced that it's less that those tactics belong to the Tea Party and more that that's just kind of what Americans are supposed to be doing with our elected officials in general--- politics is sort of supposed to be, if not our favorite fandom, then at least second-favorite (or our favorite hatedom, depending ;) ). Because when you get down to it, we've done rather a lot of this sort of thing in our history, clear back to the nation's founding.