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ng the guts of our democracy that electing a new president and a republican party that comes to its senses after republicans invited a pussy grabbing reality tv star to wreck it both prayed for consequences of the great american pendulum swinging back to center may be welcome tonics for our dysfunctional political system but still won t cure what ails us americans always have had an unjustifiably lofty view of their society which is why they are able to look down their upturned noses as tutsis beat up on hutus in rwanda serbs beat up on croats in the balkans shiites beat up on sunnis in iraq and buddhists beat up on muslims in myanmar to name just a few of the blood soaked conflicts in recent history americans believe they re beyond such tribalism and indeed the founding fathers were determined to build a democracy where the individual was more important than the tribe that failed spectacularly in a little dustup called the civil war and the biggest message underlying the election of donald trump is that it is still failing the message within that message as we slouch toward whatever trump s fate may be if indeed he is fated is that he did not make america what it is to the contrary america made trump president because of what it has become those red state blue state maps that are popping up everywhere as the most important election since the last most important election approaches are not merely graphic representations of the american body politic of recent years they vividly and shockingly illustrate the parlous condition of our 240 year old democracy a tribe of white voters predominate in red states in the rural interior they are for the most part nationalist in outlook evangelical and dominate the republican party a tribe of non whites predominate in blue states on the coasts they are for the most part are urbanized global in outlook less religious and dominate the democratic party but again that is giving politics too much credit or blame as it were tribalism begins to destabilize a democracy when it calcifies into something bigger and more intense than our smaller loyalties such as our favorite sports team pop star or brand of fast food chicken sandwich that destabilization as pioneering blogger andrew sullivan has written occurs when it rivals our attachment to the nation as a whole and tribes become enemies and that is where we are today despite the gauzy view of many pundits that all that the national car needs is an oil change i t is convenient but inaccurate to suggest that tribalism evaporated after the civil war and re emerged only in the last several years as politics became so overtly tribal and hence divisive in fact tribalism never went away tribalism merely was subsumed by waves of immigrants who were assimilated into society in the late 19th and early 20th centuries and then the two world wars which acted as huge unifiers in the case of world war ii and the years following blacks were integrated into the military industry and society at large and nearly 40 percent of black voters called themselves republicans the once proud party of lincoln but by 1964 tribalism was back with a vengeance barry goldwater s presidential campaign drove most blacks away from the gop and that re racialization continued apace in the early 1970s with richard nixon s so called southern strategy in response to the civil rights movement ronald reagan s unflattering characterizations of poor blacks in the 1980s and republican governor pete wilson s unapologetic loathing of the latino immigrants pouring into california in the 1990s by the time the first red blue maps appeared in the 2000 presidential race abortion and gay rights had further split the two parties as holier than thou republicans launched a series of culture wars and self righteous democrats were offended behind the national electoral draw that year between al gore and george bush were the two tribes so recognizable today and the supreme court ruling handing the presidency to bush ended probably forever the founders intention that the high court be nonpartisan which is to say nontribal then came 2008 and an even deeper tribal fracturing over race with the election of barack obama the first african american president as well as the emergence of fox news and the internet and social media both crucibles for right wing extremism that underlie many of the horrific mass murders that have become the soundtrack of our country and on top of all that republicans and democrats don t merely disagree with their opponents views these days t hey disagree angrily and sometimes in violent terms over the other tribe s values each side claiming to be more loyal to mother god and country than the other as emotion reliably supplants reason can you say brett kavanaugh with the three core components of tribalism race religion and geography defining the political parties 2016 was bound to be a watershed election but little did we suspect that a profoundly unqualified narcissist career crook pathological liar and misogynist wearing a red make america great again baseball cap who made vague promises to shake up washington would face off against an eminently qualified if flawed woman who proudly wore a lifetime of public service on her sleeve and promised to build on the obama legacy while bearing the scars of 30 years of virulent right wing attacks trump of course lost the popular vote but eked out an electoral college victory over hillary clinton while the pernicious consequences of the russian effort to sabotage the clinton campaign cannot be underestimated trump built his backdoor victory on opportunism that caught liberals and pollster alike unaware his claim that he could shoot someone on fifth avenue and not lose the support of his followers lays bare a deep rooted tribal animosity a toxic brew of fear and hate toward anyone who is not like them as well as an addiction to the rhetorical extremism that is trump s stock in trade americans at least those of us who care about such things when not arguing over whether the new england patriots pun intended are the best team ever have assumed that democracy was on autopilot that the worst excesses would sort themselves out as that political pendulum swung back and forth that constitutional checks and balances would assure that the pendulum would return to center that our capacity for moderation compassion and forgiveness ran deeper than our baser instincts that we would stop talking past each other and talk to each other but none of that took into account that beyond halcyon skies amber waves of grain and purple mountain majesties above those enameled plains we were members of tribes first and americans second having just read a great book bloodlands by timothy snyder which chronicles the murders of millions of men women and children by stalin and hitler before and during the second world war in horrifying detail i am convinced more than ever that tribalism is in human dna how else to explain what is happening in poland which suffered grievously under stalin and hitler a mere blink of the eye ago in the long arc of history but is lurching to the right because of the siren call of fascism as if that bloody interregnum of mass murder of one s own people in the service of megalomania disguised as national destiny had never occurred this makes finding a way out of america s national nightmare all the more difficult because it would require closing the gap between our tribes as well as changing or at least diluting the mutations of the political parties the revolution will not be televised because there isn t going to be one and the impeachment of donald trump as necessary as it is will not begin to close that gap and probably will make it only wider posted by shaun mullen at 12 00 am 19 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest friday december 06 2019 barr giuliani show why trump poses a present continuing threat to america brendan smialowski afp getty images t he truth is the most precious commodity in a state run by an authoritarian and so it has been in the age of donald trump look no further than the president s resident sage rudy giuliani who has proudly declared truth isn t truth so when the truth does out as it has in the case of john durham who has perhaps inadvertently delivered something of a twofer for the forces of good that is cause for both celebration and concern trump s long propounded claim that copiously document proof of russian efforts to meddle in the 2016 election was all a big hoax has been central to his assault on the truth as has more recently been that lie s wicked stepbrother that it actually was ukraine who meddled michael horowitz the justice department inspector general privately asked connecticut u s attorney durham who has been carrying out attorney general william barr s so called review of the origins of the fbi s investigation into russian election interference and the trump s campaign involvement in it for a forthcoming report inconveniently for trump and barr horowitz is genuinely independent and doesn t have a horse in the race durham has found that the basis of the investigation was legitimate according to news reports the cause for celebration is obvious while the cause for concern is less immediately apparent until you understand that barr s exertions whether whitewashing the mueller report or trying to prop up trump s big lie by calling in durham are all the evidence you need that the constitutional experts called by house democrats this week are correct when they say impeachment proceedings must continue apace because trump poses a present and continuing threat to our democracy look no further than the ukraine scandal in which the president tried to extort a foreign leader into helping him rig the 2020 election as the russians did in 2016 and you understand that it is a dead certainty that he will continue using the levers of government to corrupt it on his behalf speaking of present and continuing threats look no further than giuliani himself the sociopathic ringleader of trump s ukraine shakedown has traveled to budapest and kiev where he is meeting with shadowy ukrainian figures to keep trying to build the thoroughly debunked case that joe biden and his son acted corruptly in ukraine giuliani is participating in the filming of a fake documentary designed to make that narrative seem true yes giuliani is still trying to achieve the same goals that drove the corrupt plot for which trump is being impeached back in washington the integral element of trump s continuing misconduct is russia russia it s about russia house speaker nancy pelosi said on thursday in announcing that she had instructed investigators to begin drafting articles of impeachment all roads lead to putin understand that indeed russia was the beneficiary of trump s decision to withhold nearly 400 million in military aid unless ukraine president volodymyr zelensky danced to his tune two dates are especially important here in the context of trump s relationship with russia and his snarling unrepentedness on july 24 robert mueller delivered a muted but still powerful condemnation of russia s interference in the 2016 election with the trump campaign s willing help as well as trump s multiple efforts to obstruct the special counsel s investigation in an appearance before three congressional committees where he was grilled about his report on the russia scandal on july 25 an obviously unchastened trump rang up ukrainian president volodymyr zelensky to tell him he would have to interfere in the 2020 election by announcing a corruption investigation into the bidens and play along in acknowledging that it was ukraine and not russia who hacked all those democratic emails in 2016 if he wanted that military aid let alone a coveted white house visit pelosi s house democrats are now considering including articles of impeachment that address trump s ties to moscow as detailed in the mueller report and the president s efforts to shut down or curtail the special counsel s investigation these probably would include obstruction of justice in addition to three articles stemming from the ukraine scandal abuse of power obstruction of congress and possibly bribery i had preferred that the articles be confined to the ukraine scandal in the service of keeping things simple but that was shortsighted we have only one chance to impeach the most corrupt president in american history a monster who has committed and in whose name his minions have committed an array of offenses so staggeringly immense and evil that it still is almost impossible to grasp the scope so we need to pile on i write this knowing that not even impeachment is likely to curtail the present and continuing threat of trump but we have to take that shot the evidence is overwhelming waiting for the november 2020 election is not an option obsessing about whether impeachment might make democratic candidates more vulnerable in swing districts is a waste of time and while don mcgahn mick mulvaney mike pompeo and others should be compelled to testify waiting interminably for court rulings is not an option as pelosi recognizes we have to take that shot now for history and for america posted by shaun mullen at 7 51 am 11 comments email this blogthis share to x share to facebook share to pinterest thursday december 05 2019 on friends lost ere the bonnie boat was won as we sailed into the mystic youtube a regrettably annual submission s o there you are approaching your 73nd year floating merrily down the stream needing to reach for the paddle only occasionally while filling bird feeders and trying to stay on your feet in the winter and weeding vegetables and working on your tan in the summer making sure there are plenty of dog treats in your pocket and that your true love has fresh cut flowers no matter the season keeping your hand in the writing game with a blog post here and a book there when the phone rings our old friend so and so is dead the caller says solemnly far too much of that going on but at the risk of seeming maudlin my thoughts turn to friends departed with the waning of the year and i d like to remember them patrice adams susie ambry bob andrews lou angeli billy burger beth gulledge bailey nancy bennett ralph borgess becky buckson david carruthers jasmine clower terry cousins michael crowley joe cunane dale dallabrida paul damico tom daniels eddie day mark delmerico john digiovanni robert mapes dodge jr bob dorough jeff duperon doug eppes andy ercole nick fallon john felton larry fenza bill fleishman michael frettoloso charlie gibb andy goessling john gregg steve gregg bob grimm brad grimm willie hemphill vic holveck brenda ireland redz ireland darryl ray jenkins bill jennings vic karakul dave kibler pattie kibler shannon kibler jerry kirk wendy knoedler k j linhein jim mccarthy david mccloud michael mcdyre muggs mcginnis donna 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