Trump's blitz of Executive orders which he's only just begun means you can ashcan his dishonestly scripted election night b.s. about being a uniter and President of all the people and commit to four more years of organizing.
Let's be clear about it:
When Republicans get their chance, they rule and don't mess around with touchy-feely crap like consensus-building and precedent and history.
Like right-wing Wisconsin GOP Gov. Scott Walker who was all too happy to "drop the [Act 10] bomb" on his fellow citizens, or who signed companion take-home pay slashing "right-to-work" bill after professing his disinterest, the Trump-Ryan-Bannon axis will rule through iron-fisted action by editing Walker's "divide-and-conquer" strategy to simply "conquer."
It's beyond ironic that Trump's Drop-Dead-Democracy Executive orders today put the Keystone XL and DAPL pipelines back on track - - despite there being both a worldwide glut of oil and an inexorable movement through public demand towards cleaner energy - - just a couple of days after Trump's doltish but revealing one-liner at his embarrassing meeting at the CIA about "we should have taken the [Iraqi] oil. But, maybe, we'll have another chance."
Because "take" is what conquerors do.
As did Walker when it came to workers' pay and rights, or local government power, or food for the poor or clean water in Kewaunee County.
And which is how Trump and those Republicans who pretended to dislike Trump (Marco Rubio, et al) will behave on behalf of their donors, ideological masters and personal portfolios at our expense until we throw the bums out.
Let's be clear about it:
When Republicans get their chance, they rule and don't mess around with touchy-feely crap like consensus-building and precedent and history.
Like right-wing Wisconsin GOP Gov. Scott Walker who was all too happy to "drop the [Act 10] bomb" on his fellow citizens, or who signed companion take-home pay slashing "right-to-work" bill after professing his disinterest, the Trump-Ryan-Bannon axis will rule through iron-fisted action by editing Walker's "divide-and-conquer" strategy to simply "conquer."
It's beyond ironic that Trump's Drop-Dead-Democracy Executive orders today put the Keystone XL and DAPL pipelines back on track - - despite there being both a worldwide glut of oil and an inexorable movement through public demand towards cleaner energy - - just a couple of days after Trump's doltish but revealing one-liner at his embarrassing meeting at the CIA about "we should have taken the [Iraqi] oil. But, maybe, we'll have another chance."
Because "take" is what conquerors do.
As did Walker when it came to workers' pay and rights, or local government power, or food for the poor or clean water in Kewaunee County.
And which is how Trump and those Republicans who pretended to dislike Trump (Marco Rubio, et al) will behave on behalf of their donors, ideological masters and personal portfolios at our expense until we throw the bums out.
