169 Congressional Democrats Call On Trump To Fire Bannon
And most progressive writers are spending their ink, this week, flipping out about the perils of Bannon and white nationalism in the White House, yelling about racism, misogyny, and anti-Semitism.
But the politicians and nearly the entire liberal commentariat have been silent about a problem that seems only to worry Josh Marshall, so far.
Greasing the Skids for Medicare Phase Out
Marshall and others at his site have been writing for days about Ryan getting his way with entitlements very, very soon in a Trump administration.
Will Trump's Trumpism, the whole list of ways in which he has all along rejected the agenda of establishment Republicanism, turn out to have been nothing but hot air?
Will he turn out to be a sock puppet for the standard issue, Wall Street Journal, Koch Brothers Republicans?
Or will geezers be thrown under the bus by him, despite his promises to them, in return for cooperation from Ryan and the rest on Trumpist agenda items closer to Il Duce's political heart?
Ryan and the establishment will want to use Trump's first two years to shove through as much of their radical agenda as possible, destroying as much as they can of what progressivism has achieved in nearly a century and a quarter, since the dawn of the 20th Century, while they control both houses of congress.
They will want to give him as little of his own, distinctive, Trumpist agenda as they can.
And the struggle is already underway.
Thing is, his only real weapon against them, the only tool he has to control them, is the same one Obama had, the presidential veto.
That and the bully pulpit.
No idea how this will play out.
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