tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post232706102769669756..comments2023-10-24T09:06:30.200-04:00Comments on No More Mister Nice Blog: THE TRUMP ADMINISTRATION COULD BE ALL STICKS AND NO CARROTS, AND THE HEARTLAND MIGHT BE FINE WITH THATSteve M.http://www.blogger.com/profile/11963290427258439242noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-3216363775551123702017-02-01T11:47:20.241-05:002017-02-01T11:47:20.241-05:00I hate that term "heartland" for the ret...I hate that term "heartland" for the retrograde place I live. Maybe Central Idiotland? Moronia?<br /><br />"People of the land. The common clay. You know...morons."mathguyhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/02591559181439884572noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-19356828252601035042017-01-31T22:18:40.981-05:002017-01-31T22:18:40.981-05:00Oh David Frum, not a day passes that I don't w...Oh David Frum, not a day passes that I don't wonder why so many liberals listen to you.<br /><br /><i>As politics has become polarized, Congress has increasingly become a check only on presidents of the opposite party. Recent presidents enjoying a same-party majority in Congress—<b>Barack Obama in 2009 and 2010</b>, George W. Bush from 2003 through 2006—usually got their way.</i><br /><br />Fucking really? Obama abandons his original health care plan because he can't get support from the Blue Dogs in his own party and this was him getting his way? Is long-term memory loss just a prerequisite for rising to the top tier of political press in this country?<br /><br /><i>“Populist-fueled democratic backsliding is difficult to counter,” wrote the political scientists Andrea Kendall-Taylor and Erica Frantz late last year...If people retreat into private life, if critics grow quieter, if cynicism becomes endemic, the corruption will slowly become more brazen, the intimidation of opponents stronger.</i><br /><br />To be fair, this piece was likely written before the events of the last few weeks, during that period where so many pundits were still keen on the term "populism" and anticipating Trump riding into power amid the great massed throngs of his supporters as his approval ratings shot toward the heavens. That was probably the same inspiration for that absurd opening bit describing the downright utopian Age of Trump, with the Fearless Leader depicted as a trust-busting herald of the working class bringing unprecedented wealth to the American people without stepping on anyone's toes (and I can't believe Frum could see around Trump's balls to type that).Andrew Johnstonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05780648896926049012noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-73614068888922219042017-01-31T20:15:43.907-05:002017-01-31T20:15:43.907-05:00I actually think I may have to stop reading this b...I actually think I may have to stop reading this blog because I can't take the truth of your words. You are right. We are all going to hell.Luigihttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16483229810538275725noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-67719990147568044032017-01-31T19:50:23.869-05:002017-01-31T19:50:23.869-05:00Sauron Bannon is working harder and faster than Sa...Sauron Bannon is working harder and faster than Sauron Cheney did, and out loud and with no subtlety. It is hard to imagine we will get 8 years of thus. Sauron Bannon may feel he has accomplished his goals in a few months, with Norquist chortling in the backgroundCarol Annhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/12123896090649532723noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3856837.post-11386395249983847262017-01-31T18:42:22.532-05:002017-01-31T18:42:22.532-05:00It's a state based upon 'getting' peop...It's a state based upon 'getting' people -- instead of, say, anything in the Preamble.<br /><br />Get the bad guys<br />Get the Muslims<br />Get those foreigners<br />Get those immigrants<br />Get those Mexicans<br />Get those liberals<br />Get those faggots<br />Get those women<br /><br />It's the fever dream of a 9 year old boy -- to have the power of the state at your command to 'get'William F. Glennonhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10557342274820875239noreply@blogger.com