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Politics : The Trump Presidency -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (17819)	5/11/2017 12:21:22 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 356372

"I don't know why everyone can't see the obvious." It's not obvious to the people in his cult. There is such a fascinating split on the right between people who see the Russia story as an attack on the US, and those who think it's a fake news attack on Trump. Are you the only conservative on SI who still thinks Russia is a threat to the West?

To: Brumar89 who wrote (17819)	5/11/2017 2:55:52 PM
From: epicure	Respond to of 356372

Big government conservatives have never been against spending- they just spend money on different things than liberals would spend money on. I don't think you can put Trump into either political party- he's an oligarchic kleptocrat. The republican party may have been captured by him, but they aren't, essentially, Trumpian- demagogues do this, and they come along pretty frequently, and humans have a hard time resisting the siren song of easy answers to complex problems, and promises of easy wins. So much winning! It's human nature to prefer the easy path- unfortunately it's rarely the path that brings the most rewards or the optimal, or even livable, solution. Not personally, and not in government.