The sponsors of the Graham Cassidy Bill to gut American healthcare.
Credit: The Atlantic
I haven’t yet read Hillary Clinton’s “What Happened,” but it seems pretty clear to me what did, in fact, happen in 2016.
These days, America starts from a baseline of extreme tribalism: 47 or 48 percent of the electorate will vote for any Republican, no matter how terrible, and against any Democrat, no matter how good. This means, in turn, that small things — journalists acting like mean kids in high school, ganging up on candidates they consider uncool, events that suggest fresh scandal even when there’s nothing there — can tip the balance in favor of even the worst candidate imaginable.
And, crucially, last year far too many people were complacent; they assumed that Trump couldn’t possibly become president, so they felt free to engage in trivial pursuits. Then they woke up to find that the inconceivable had happened.
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That they took a vow to serve under the Constitution no longer means anything to these men. They serve greed! McConnell had something like $2M of personal wealth when he entered Congress. He’s now worth $20M plus thanks to lobbyists, big corporations, etc. Last town hall health meetings, he refused to address a coal miner’s wife and coal miner’s daughter on coal mining. He had his security remove her! I watched the encounter. She was not yelling, or any way indicating physical aggressiveness. She was politely demanding answers to questions she had.