The Jan. 6 hearings have pulled back the curtain on the 'crazies and cowards' around Trump

[HipKat]

 

In his column for the New York Times, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman made his case the Republican Party appears to be nothing less than a confederation of "crazies, cowards and careerists," less interested in governing than they are in kowtowing to Donald Trump.

Reflecting on the January 6 House hearings investigating the storming of the Capitol by supporters of the former president, Krugman said the GOP stands exposed as members of Congress who could provide testimony refuse to do so, and their colleagues turn a blind eye.

According to Krugman what has been revealed thus far "has been riveting and terrifying," he claimed, "realistically there is no longer any doubt that Trump tried to overturn the results of a lawful election, and when all else had failed, encouraged and tried to abet a violent attack on Congress."

Adding that he is not a lawyer and is in no position to specify what laws have been broken, he turned his ire on the GOP leadership and the far-right members of Congress who are aiding and abetting Trump -- just so he can keep his 2024 presidential ambitions alive and they can tag along.

"Dozens of people in or close to the Trump administration must have known what was going on; many of them surely have firsthand knowledge of at least some aspects of the coup attempt. Yet only a handful have come forward with what they know," he wrote, "How can we explain this abdication of duty?"

The columnist suggested there may be a simple answer.

"Even now, full-on MAGA cultists are probably a minority among G.O.P. politicians. For every Lauren Boebert or Marjorie Taylor Greene, there are most likely several Kevin McCarthys — careerists, not crazies, apparatchiks rather than fanatics. Yet the noncrazy wing of the G.O.P., with only a handful of exceptions, has nonetheless done everything it can to prevent any reckoning over the attempted coup," he wrote. "

"The Republican Party is a far more monolithic entity, in which politicians compete over who adheres most faithfully to the party’s line. That line used to be defined by economic ideology, but these days it is more about positioning in the culture wars — and personal loyalty to Trump. It takes great moral courage for Republicans to defy the party’s diktats, and those who do are promptly excommunicated," he explained before citing longtime conservatives like Bill Kristol and Max Boot -- as well as Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) -- who have bucked the trend and fought back at the former president's attempt to overthrow democratic institutions.

"I don’t think it’s a slur on these people’s courage to note that the neocons were always a distinct group, never fully assimilated by the Republican monolith, with careers that rested in part on reputations outside the party. This arguably leaves them freer than garden-variety Republicans to act in accord with their consciences," he suggested before concluding, "Unfortunately, that still leaves the rest. If the Democrats are a coalition of interest groups, Republicans are now a coalition of crazies and cowards. And it’s hard to say which Republicans present the greater danger."

 

[Very Wide Right]

2 hours ago, HipKat said:

 

In his column for the New York Times, Nobel Prize-winning economist Paul Krugman made his case the Republican Party appears to be nothing less than a confederation of "crazies, cowards and careerists," less interested in governing than they are in kowtowing to Donald Trump.

Reflecting on the January 6 House hearings investigating the storming of the Capitol by supporters of the former president, Krugman said the GOP stands exposed as members of Congress who could provide testimony refuse to do so, and their colleagues turn a blind eye.

According to Krugman what has been revealed thus far "has been riveting and terrifying," he claimed, "realistically there is no longer any doubt that Trump tried to overturn the results of a lawful election, and when all else had failed, encouraged and tried to abet a violent attack on Congress."

Adding that he is not a lawyer and is in no position to specify what laws have been broken, he turned his ire on the GOP leadership and the far-right members of Congress who are aiding and abetting Trump -- just so he can keep his 2024 presidential ambitions alive and they can tag along.

"Dozens of people in or close to the Trump administration must have known what was going on; many of them surely have firsthand knowledge of at least some aspects of the coup attempt. Yet only a handful have come forward with what they know," he wrote, "How can we explain this abdication of duty?"

The columnist suggested there may be a simple answer.

"Even now, full-on MAGA cultists are probably a minority among G.O.P. politicians. For every Lauren Boebert or Marjorie Taylor Greene, there are most likely several Kevin McCarthys — careerists, not crazies, apparatchiks rather than fanatics. Yet the noncrazy wing of the G.O.P., with only a handful of exceptions, has nonetheless done everything it can to prevent any reckoning over the attempted coup," he wrote. "

"The Republican Party is a far more monolithic entity, in which politicians compete over who adheres most faithfully to the party’s line. That line used to be defined by economic ideology, but these days it is more about positioning in the culture wars — and personal loyalty to Trump. It takes great moral courage for Republicans to defy the party’s diktats, and those who do are promptly excommunicated," he explained before citing longtime conservatives like Bill Kristol and Max Boot -- as well as Rep. Liz Cheney (R-WY) -- who have bucked the trend and fought back at the former president's attempt to overthrow democratic institutions.

"I don’t think it’s a slur on these people’s courage to note that the neocons were always a distinct group, never fully assimilated by the Republican monolith, with careers that rested in part on reputations outside the party. This arguably leaves them freer than garden-variety Republicans to act in accord with their consciences," he suggested before concluding, "Unfortunately, that still leaves the rest. If the Democrats are a coalition of interest groups, Republicans are now a coalition of crazies and cowards. And it’s hard to say which Republicans present the greater danger."

 

Not a chance brother. Any thinking non-partisan American sees right through this charade. After the democrats sham impeachments and phoney witnesses its just not working. Democrats have overplayed their hand.

 

[SackMan518]

2 hours ago, HipKat said:

Paul Krugman

 

2 hours ago, HipKat said:

Bill Kristol and Max Boot

All 3 of these guys are intellectual cancer.

[HipKat]

40 minutes ago, SackMan518 said:

 

All 3 of these guys are intellectual cancer.

From the guy who gives Mercola and Zelenko (RIP)

[SackMan518]

49 minutes ago, HipKat said:

From the guy who gives Mercola and Zelenko (RIP)

I know, what a couple of loons right? Who wants to listen to a couple of guys who advocate vitamins, proper nutrition, and low cost older drugs to alleviate chronic conditions over Big Pharma who wants you to take their latest and highly expensive and probably not properly tested drugs? Jeez, I am definitely a nut taking their advice!

[Philly'sFinest]

Again...when you start any piece with the false assumption that the election was fair and not stolen...I couldn't care less what else is said.

And to top it off...this guy is an economist putting out an opinion piece. The opinion of a economist working for a left wing newspaper is worth basically nothing in current times.

Thanks for playing

[Thebowflexbody]

HipKat = Mental Midget.  And an actual midget too.  LOL

[Woody]

3 hours ago, SackMan518 said:

I know, what a couple of loons right? Who wants to listen to a couple of guys who advocate vitamins, proper nutrition, and low cost older drugs to alleviate chronic conditions over Big Pharma who wants you to take their latest and highly expensive and probably not properly tested drugs? Jeez, I am definitely a nut taking their advice!

 

[HipKat]

5 hours ago, SackMan518 said:

I know, what a couple of loons right? Who wants to listen to a couple of guys who advocate vitamins, proper nutrition, and low cost older drugs Proven FAKE Covid Treatments to Push their Agenda over Big Pharma who wants you to take their latest and highly expensive and probably not properly tested drugs? Jeez, I am definitely a nut!

 

Fixed all that for you

[RichJ]

Lol men can menstruate and women have penis' and yet it's the Republicans that are the crazies. 

In the world of the dems ,libs lefties and progressives , the one on the left is a woman and the one on the right is a white supremacist. LoL!

 

[Thebowflexbody]

28 minutes ago, HipKat said:

Fixed all that for you

Worst moderator ever.

[SackMan518]

2 hours ago, HipKat said:

Fixed all that for you

You didn't fix anything. Neither of those guys makes a cent from those vitamins and drugs. Big Pharma on the other hand has sold millions of more doses of their non-effective "vacsheens" to the government that taxpayers funded the development for. I can see why they would want to "debonk" those guys because they're interfering with the gravy train.

[SackMan518]

In other news, January 6th related.

 

[HipKat]

1 hour ago, SackMan518 said:

In other news, January 6th related.

 

Absolutely nothing in there is about January 6

[SackMan518]

2 minutes ago, HipKat said:

Absolutely nothing in there is about January 6

It is. An ANTIFA person armed and attacking a federal building gets the case dismissed while people who were just there in DC on the 6th are still in prison without a trial. 

[FanBack]

This thread should be locked. 

This is a Politics Forum, not a Political Partisanship Forum.

It is for free unbiased discourse concerning issues outside of football or trivial matters.

See my posts for proper content 

 

[HipKat]

11 hours ago, SackMan518 said:

You didn't fix anything. Neither of those guys makes a cent from those vitamins and drugs. Big Pharma on the other hand has sold millions of more doses of their non-effective "vacsheens" to the government that taxpayers funded the development for. I can see why they would want to "debonk" those guys because they're interfering with the gravy train.

How much do you earn supporting MAGA and Trumpism?? Nada, but you yet you do it, daily

[Thebowflexbody]

3 hours ago, HipKat said:

How much do you earn supporting MAGA and Trumpism?? Nada, but you yet you do it, daily

What a fool believes.  HipKat = Fool.

[SackMan518]

On 7/3/2022 at 8:53 AM, HipKat said:

How much do you earn supporting MAGA and Trumpism?? Nada, but you yet you do it, daily

That's right. It's just part of the oath I took at 18 years old to defend and support the Constitution from enemies both foreign and domestic.

[HipKat]

27 minutes ago, SackMan518 said:

That's right. It's just part of the oath I took at 18 years old to defend and support the Constitution from enemies both foreign and domestic.

They want to start doing that then, instead of supporting right wing domestic terrorists

[thinwhiteduke]

 

[SackMan518]

NEVER forget January 6th and what those insurrectionists did as they stormed the Capitol. In fact, here's a video reminder of that.