Trump efforts to help Ryan commit partisan electoral suicide in gutting healthcare and subsequent tax relief for the wealthy may be a slow go. Persuading legislators to give up their seats for the good of the upper crust is never easy. Power must be rewarded to be relinquished by our enablers of the elite. Golden parachutes all around must be the order of the day! While GOP legislative plans seem dicey now there is little limit to the wealth soon to be dangled before Congress critters in the form of Fortune 500 board memberships or for those already too well heeled to care, for their children’s future career in the corporate stratosphere or for plum patronage posts like ambassadorships or judicial posts or FOX’s harem inclusive fiefdoms. By his own admission Trump knows bribery.
This siren song of doom the GOP is entranced with is not a permanent end. The mad men of GOP politics must already be honing spiffy reasons for Americans to vote against their interests after the impending GOP debacle. Phoenix has nothing on the rapid cyclical resurrection of corporate political clout.
There is a more permanent destruction afoot. When a coal seam is exploited it is now usually done not with a labor intensive underground mining operation but with machine driven surface mining. Methods like strip mining leach soils permanently. Nutrients wash into rivers and into the sea. On the way they destroy aquatic life. It remains to be seen how much of America will be destroyed by Trump’s pledge to mine more coal. But he is quietly and effectively helping polluters everywhere. Here is a partial list of permanent scars Trump is now ‘winning’ for America:
Since January, Trump has ordered reviews or delays of all of these things:
And Trump has ordered repeals of all of these things:
America can only stand so much of Trump’s destruction before it’s capacity to be great will be forever diminished!