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The House Divided: By Whom?
Lincoln knew what endangered America: civil uprising. Enter Russia.
The Republican Party made its name by claiming to so hate communism that Ronald Reagan became the icon of his generation when he declared, “Tear this wall down” in Berlin. Well, the wall fell, as did the Soviet Union’s control over satellite states. With that Russia became a second rate power.
Enter Putin. Max Boot, whose family escaped the grips of communism, recently penned an excellent article spelling out, in great detail, the Putin led attack on United States, and his slow steady march into Ukraine. If you’ve missed this, I recommend reading his Washington Post essay dated December 4th titled, “The Republicans have become the party of Russia. This makes me sick.”
The point I wish to make is that Putin has now compromised American government at its highest levels, from the President, to the Senate, and to the minority members of the House of Representatives. As of this writing, it is unclear whether the Supreme Court has also faced this incursion (the decision on appearing when subpoenas are ordered and the withholding of tax returns and presidential communications [i.e. the actual transcript of Trump’s phone call asking for ‘a favor’] will tell the American people where the Court stands on the version of an attempt at an imperial presidency.
