Progressives (Liberals)

Nearly every President since Roosevelt has done the same.

As with climate change, the spores of political and social decay have been in place for some time. The fungal network has spread globally; the fruiting toadstools — Trump, BoJo, Erdoğan, Balsonaro — pop up here and there, their toxicity widely recognized, but the underlying mycelium, nourishing the subterranean rot, largely escapes notice.

Kyle Sampson acknowledges he drew up the plans to fire eight federal prosecutors but says he had a lot of help -- including from his former boss, Attorney General Alberto Gonzales.

In testimony Thursday, Sampson described getting two years’ worth of input from across the Justice Department and the White House over how to purge the U.S. attorneys who were no longer viewed as “loyal Bushies.”

His testimony before the Senate Judiciary Committee disputed earlier statements by Gonzales, who has claimed that he had little to do with the firings and wasn’t involved in selecting those who would be told to resign

There is nothing really new in all of this, unless you assume that some imagined march towards uniform Progressivism is the continuing norm for the world.

And that was a scandal even with a mere 8 individuals removed in one department. That department, of course, was Justice which made the matter acutely serious.

He could impose capitalist Enron style rolling blackouts.

I am pretty sure I know how it will go, the same way it went with Obama's policy proposals. Or it could be even going worse, depending on the status of how many seats we have in each house.

Bill Clinton fired a lot more federal prosecutors than Bush did, and for even less reason

Thomas has stirred controversy due to her inflammatory political rhetoric and promotion of conspiracy theories. In 2018, she shared Facebook posts that characterized California as a war zone, alleged voter fraud by Democrats in four elections, described the teenage survivors of the Parkland shooting "dangerous to the survival of our nation" (because they advocated for gun control) and accused President Obama and Hillary Clinton of being involved in wiretapping then-candidate Donald Trump. In 2017, she held a speech saying the left wants "to extinguish our rights," that the left "moves its forces across our country," and that the NFL was "mainstreaming anti-Americanism" because some NFL players kneeled during the national anthem to protest police brutality and racial discrimination. She harshly criticized Paul Ryan and Mitch McConnell as "useful idiots" for "LiberalFascists" because they did not condemn violence on the left during the violent white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Virginia in 2017. She has made videos for the Daily Caller where she wondered whether "cultural Marxists have already won in our country."[32]

“Ginni Thomas is a crucially important person in this conservative movement,” said Mark Levin, a talk-radio host who dabbles in conspiracy theory, at the luncheon. “Don’t you think?”

James Pethokoukis - (From my AEI colleague @MichaelRStrain's new book The American Dream is Not Dead."

So wages took a hit BEFORE neolib revolution and then powered higher well into it.

The markets fell as the outbreak grew. On Jan. 31, the same day several airlines suspended flights and the United States announced its escalated response, the Dow Jones industrial average dropped 600 points, or 2 percent. Trump grew concerned that any stronger action by his administration would hurt the economy, and he has told advisers that he does not want the administration to do or say anything that would further spook the markets. He remains worried that any large-scale outbreak could hurt his reelection bid.