Time to decimate the Republican's standing with the public and the press.

[lees1975]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/it-s-time-to-decimate-the-republicans-standing-with-the-public-and-the-press-opinion/ar-AA1vRvEN?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=LCTS&cvid=ef7c72e52be14c49ade1a59516ad8516&ei=18

Something we've been saying for a long time.

I don’t want to cast the Democrats as monolithic, though. While Schiff is unique in his milquetoastiness, others are showing grit. I was glad, for instance, to read about Dick Durbin and his reaction to Trump’s pick to head the FBI. Durbin will be the Senate minority whip. He told his caucus to “reject this unprecedented effort to weaponize the FBI for the campaign of retribution that Donald Trump has promised.”

That’s more like it, but the liberal resistance to America’s totalitarian drift shouldn’t stop with Kash Patel. The Senate Democrats should vote against every one of Trump’s cabinet nominees. They should, not only because they are terrible – terribly unfit, unqualified and corrupt – but also because that’s good politics. There’s no downside to opposing what will be the worst administration of our lifetimes. There’s no upside to the Democrats being reasonable in the face of it.

Indeed, the Democrats have a chance to break a vicious cycle, and with that, put themselves in a better position when the time is right.

What cycle?

Whenever the Democrats are in power, the Republicans manufacture a makebelieve crisis – for instance, “open borders.” They do this for the purpose of pushing the Democrats out. Once they are back, the Republicans trigger a real crisis – for instance, the covid pandemic. At that point, the Democrats say to voters, “look at this mess!” They vow to clean it up. Once the Democrats are in power again, the Republicans begin scheming for ways to manufacture another makebelieve crisis.

[lees1975]

1. "There's no upside to the Democrats being reasonable in the face of it."

It's time to realize that bipartisan statesman ship during the transition between presidential administrations doesn't exist any more, not because Democrats are causing it, but because Republicans won't allow it. So they make their choice and they should have to live with our reaction to it, which should be to give nothing in return of value to them or their agenda. Nothing.

And if we still have the right to vote in two years, and we are looking at nominating what I hope will be the congress that will win the mother of all Democratic victories, I will not vote for any Democrat who cooperated or even looked bi-partisan.

[J_William_Ryan]

2. "...the Republicans begin scheming for ways to manufacture another makebelieve crisis"

That’s because Republicans enjoy the luxury of having no principles, no valid policies, nothing of value to offer the people – with such liberty it’s easy to contrive and spread disinformation and lies, to create a make-believe crisis.

[RussBLib]

3. your link now goes to a generic MSN aggregator-type site

...can you refresh it? I've had no luck locating the column you snipped from

[lees1975]

5. Try this one

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/it-s-time-to-decimate-the-republicans-standing-with-the-public-and-the-press-opinion/ar-AA1vRvEN?ocid=msedgdhp&pc=LCTS&cvid=ef7c72e52be14c49ade1a59516ad8516&ei=18

It's an MSN link, it takes me to the site. But if you go to alternet, you have to subscribe, sorry.

[Blue_Tires]

4. He's got a point