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Why would Trump spend the last three years ‘coercing’ the Netherlands to implicate Russia? It’s not like anyone is even a walking about MH-17 anymore. EU countries have little reason to submit to an ‘ally’ that never treats them like an ally.

Progressives in n congress, including AOC, Bernie and others, have been pushing for and supporting the impeachment inquiry, while DP centrists and the GOP have resisted it.

I doubt Bernie views as an ‘impeachment pantomime’. Trump and the GOP would like for to believe that it is.

Everyone already knew that Miller is an anti-immigrant nativist. That is why he was hired by Trump in the first place. We just may not have known that he was a bonafide white nationalist. Something tells me Donald will not care and will use this to solidify his base. What base is that, you ask? :)

I bet that FDR faced the same complaints from multi-millionaires in his day. He welcomed their hatred, just like Bernie does.

Fine, Mr. Bloomberg. He is not a ‘dictator’. Let’s just call him an ‘unelected president-for-life’. Does that make you feel better, Michael? Why is it that billionaires seem to be more comfortable with authoritarians than does the average person?
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The demographic future of this country does not bode well for a party built on white supremacy, which is why the Republican Party is so intent on voter suppression—and why a massive get-out-the-vote strategy would virtually ensure Democratic victory. (Whether that’s what the Democratic Party establishment wants is another question.)

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To conservative nationalists, as long as it is rich Americans interfering in our elections, all is well.

Devin must be feeling the heat from the White House. Trump apparently does not think he is a good enough attack dog so he ‘temporarily’ added Jim Jordan to the Intelligence Committee to promote Trump’s counterattack.

Devin may have got the message.

One can easily imagine the conservative lament about ‘open borders liberals’ that will follow

Thank you, Bernie for leading on the left and welcoming the attacks from the right.

"We must… reconceptualize a global order based on human solidarity… we are going to survive by working together, or we're going to go down by the kinds of devisions that the authoritarians are trying to create" – @BernieSanders #LulaLivre pic.twitter.com/RHws7sIq9p

— People for Bernie (@People4Bernie) November 8, 2019

“He’s not a king.”

That is it in a nutshell. Presidents don’t get to ignore the legislature. Kings do. (And no one can tell a king not to use the government to enrich himself.)

I think Donald sees himself as a king, perhaps why he seems more comfortable with authoritarians than he does with democratic leaders.

“in general analysis, nation state model is becoming more and more obsolete …”

“The nationalist/sovereignist mentality has lots of popular appeal , because the supranational treaties, institutions and regulations known as Neoliberal Globalization has not been good for majority of people, and the supranational managerial class can’t be voted o…[Read more]

I am fine with FDR, Bernie and modern social democracies that have the fairest income distributions and strongest middle classes in the world. I support Bernie now and will support him if he wins the Democratic primary for president. If FDR, Bernie and modern social democracies are not good enough for you, fair enough.

It’s not globalization that is the problem, it is ‘neoliberal’ globalization. Neoliberalism is a huge problem whether it is neoliberal globalization or neoliberal nationalism/isolationism as practiced by Trump. Liberal globalization as promoted by FDR and Bernie is much superior to neoliberal anything.

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Bernie, of course, knows this. “The Democratic Party should be the party of the working class. (IOW, it’s not now.) Both he and AOC among others have said that the DNC is the source of the DP’s problems in delegitimizing the democratic process. They also know that the GOP has done much (voter suppression, gerrymandering, etc.) to achieve the s…[Read more]

“… these questions were not asked of Republican respondents …”

I would be interested to see how republicans responded to ‘these questions’. It might have surprised some how many of them support Bernie and his policies that are so different from Trump’s on ‘health care, the economy, environment and immigration’.