Trump Administration Closes Watchdog Office For Immigration Detention Abuses

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12. Compared to this?

Here is rest of my point…

Post Nixon Democrats were often in control and were able to pass a lot of progressive legislation.

Reagan’s reign was pretty horrible. But things were still operating fairly normally. Bipartisanship still existed. Not all Republicans had crossed so fully to the dark side.

Good things were getting done. Sometimes.

Politics are always a dirty fight. But there were people on the other side that would work for the common good at times.

What is happening now is the country being administratively dismantled, the legislative branch hadn’t surrendered to the executive, and no one was explicitly supporting racism, pedophilia, ephebophilia, misogyny, fiscal recklessness. Most Republicans still had a vestigial sense of shame and when they got nailed would do the right thing and resign.

The seeds of now were all planted then but had not fully flowered.

In the history of this country this was as good as it got other than the few brief years of the post-Civil Wat reconstruction. The FDR years were a very mixed bag and while I very much admire the accomplishments of the New Deal the stain of systemic institutional racism makes the title of “golden age” inaccurate.