Links for 12/12/16: In yesterday's Washington Post, Michael Kinsley makes the case that Donald Trump is a fascist in the clinical sense of the word. How many people who voted for Trump expected the titans of corporat...
MGB: Kingsley is correct. Many of us have been saying the same thing for over a year. Of course, he will only go so far in suppressing dissent, so he won't become a full blown fascist.
The Republican answer has always been to replace comprehensive insurance with health savings accounts and catastrophic care, thus adding market mechanisms to reduce costs. They know they can't do that. Their second choice was what the Heritage Foundation created and Romney used in Massachusetts that became Obamacare. It is likely that the only thing they will do is get rid of the financing mechanism which hits the wealthy hardest.
Trads can't cope with ambiguity, which is the essence of mercy. If Francis had changed doctrine, things would be easier to understand, but they would still dissent.
I hope Koch talks about the fact that Newman was probably gay, although he will likely not speak ill of other Republicans.
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