"Hey, c'mon, everybody attacks the foundations of democracy in an attempt to install the loser as a Forever POTUS, right?"
Bless their hearts.
Like the man said: "Never forget how deeply Republicans hate this country's traditions of democratic self-government. Their project is to tear it all down and replace it with plutocracy."
--Driftglass
Here's what you don't do, Press Poodles: You don't ever give "the other side" equal footing like this.
Putting GOP apologists like Scott Jennings on your show is like saying, "Very fine people on both sides". Jennings et al should be ostracized the same as their dog ass terrorist buddies who make up the mainstream of the Republican Party.
Jennings basically says he's more worried about the negative effect on his party's chances in November than he is about the actual survival of democracy in America - glossing over his own efforts - over however many years he's been at it - to undermine that democracy.
Republicans have indulged in an awful lot of fuckery in just the last 30 years, and they have to be held to account for it.
Here's the top line for every Style Book when dealing with "conservatives" &/or Republicans:
Fess up or shut up
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