{"id":24338,"date":"2016-10-24T12:44:24","date_gmt":"2016-10-24T19:44:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/?p=24338"},"modified":"2016-10-24T12:44:24","modified_gmt":"2016-10-24T19:44:24","slug":"the-reichs-and-trust-destroyed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/2016\/10\/24\/the-reichs-and-trust-destroyed\/","title":{"rendered":"The Reichs and Trust Destroyed"},"content":{"rendered":"

Trust is fragile.  For many many years our government functioned smoothly, because when the opposing parties reached an agreement, they kept their word about honoring it.  Now, that is only half true.  When the Republican Party became the Reich on the Right, the Republican Reich, they the destroyed that trust.  How?  Listen to the Reich on the Left, Robert Reich!<\/font><\/p>\n

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Donald Trump\u2019s warning that he might not accept the results of the presidential election<\/a> exemplifies his approach to everything: Do whatever it takes to win, even if that means undermining the integrity of the entire system. <\/p>\n

Trump isn\u2019t alone<\/strong>. The same approach underlies Senator John McCain\u2019s recent warning<\/a> that Senate Republicans will unite against any Supreme Court nominee Hillary Clinton might put up, if she becomes president.  <\/p>\n

The Republican Party as a whole has embraced this philosophy for more than two decades<\/strong>. After Newt Gingrich took over as Speaker of the House in 1995, compromise was replaced by brinksmanship, and normal legislative maneuvering was supplanted by threats to close down the government \u2013 which occurred at the end of that year. <\/p>\n

Like Trump, Gingrich did whatever it took to win, regardless of the consequences. In 1996, during the debates over welfare reform, he racially stereotyped African-Americans. In 2010 he fueled the birther movement by saying President Obama exhibited \u201cKenyan, anticolonial behavior.\u201d Two years later, in his unsuccessful bid for the Republican presidential nomination, he called President Obama the \u201cfood stamp president.\u201c<\/p>\n

As political observers Norman Ornstein of the American Enterprise Institute and Thomas Mann of Brookings have noted<\/a>, \u201cthe forces Mr. Gingrich unleashed destroyed whatever comity existed across party lines.\u201d Gingrich\u2019s Republican Party became \u201cideologically extreme; scornful of compromise; unmoved by conventional understanding of facts, evidence and science; and dismissive of the legitimacy of its political opposition<\/strong>.\u201d… [emphasis added<\/em>]<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

From <Robert Reich<\/a>><\/font><\/p>\n

Click through for the rest of this excellent article.  Throughout the years the Democratic party has homered the agreements they have made, but they have become far less inclined to reach agreements with Republicans, because there is no basis for trust that the Republican Party will honor them.  Finally, even some Democrats are adapting Republican tactics.  When that happens, such DINOs. like Schultz, must be removed from power.  The Reich on the left is right.<\/font><\/p>\n

The Republican Party is a cancer that must be excised!<\/font><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Trust is fragile.  For many many years our government functioned smoothly, because when the opposing parties reached an agreement, they kept their word about honoring it.  Now, that is only half true.  When the Republican Party became the Reich on the Right, the Republican Reich, they the destroyed that trust.  How?  Listen to the Reich […]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-24338","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-politics","category-5-id","post-seq-1","post-parity-odd","meta-position-corners","fix"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24338","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=24338"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/24338\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=24338"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=24338"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.politicsplus.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=24338"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}