Michael Tracey Retweeted
Getting hopelessly immersed in alternate universe conspiracy dimensions is all well and good... but maybe leave the young kids out of it.
Tracking pundit opinion...
November 2016: "Fascism has dawned... a new dictator is born"
March 2017: "lol bunch of incompetents! Clownshow"
Michael Tracey Retweeted
Noted far-right nationalist Tariq Ali on the U.S. response to the annexation of Crimea. https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2014/mar/28/why-putin-crimea-strategy-west-villain …
There's nothing inherently right-wing or "nationalist" about questioning the efficacy/wisdom of Russia sanctions
There was something weirdly shambolic and cynical about this entire (arbitrarily expedited) process -- not 100% sure what to make of it yet.
GOP qualms were resolvable with some basic legislating/compromising. NY delegation had already been mollified. But Trump nuked the process.
If passage of the bill was ever a sincere priority for Trump he could've simply delayed the vote by... a week? It doesn't make any sense.
Trump is reportedly untroubled by the health care failure. This entire thing was almost certainly a bait-and-switch
Imagine predicting 2 years ago: "The GOP's first major act upon gaining control of Congress & the Presidency will be to entrench Obamacare"