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Dems' Broken Pipe(line) Dreams (w/ Sen. Brian Schatz)

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Is There a Relationship Between Liberals and Conservatives?

i don't think it should ever be off limits to criticise or challenge powerful people, even if there are other powerful people that exist who are worse. There is a relationship of a kind between liberals and conservatives which opens up new space for the right to do more awful things than it wants to do. You know, right wing demagogy would be a lot less rhetorically effective and a lot less appealing if there were people fronting for the other side who were more credible. I don't get donald trump without the bomb administration's catastrophic refusal to take one example to overhaul the us Economy or protect people during the financial crisis.

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