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kleinbl00  ·  374 days ago  ·  link  ·    ·  parent  ·  post: The Colorado River Is Running Dry, but Nobody Wants to Talk About the Mud

The principle difference between Democrats and Republicans, operationally speaking, is Democrats eat their own while Republicans build generational coalitions. The guy who executed the October Surprise?

    He was such an influential figure that he helped a young George W. Bush get into the Texas Air National Guard

The fact that you can draw a straight line from McCarthy to Nixon to Bush to Trump shouldn't surprise anyone; this is what populists do. This is why they're so big on Don Jr. being president some day. It's probably why they hate Hilary Clinton so much - she was a Goldwater Girl who went turncoat.

But yeah. In a cabinet with Ed Meese, Al Haig and Casper Weinberger, Jim Watt was more horrible than most.