With Republicans poised for a strong showing in the November midterms, the Republican National Committee is reeling from a spending scandal that has now led to the resignation of top figures in the party and threatens to squander the political wind Republicans have at their backs.
Many of the details are inside baseball, but they add up a serious crisis in the leadership of the national GOP. Steele's 14-month tenure at the RNC was already defined by an ongoing series of gaffes and damaging press stories, including about Steele's questionable book and a controversial leaked RNC fundraising presentation.
Problem Spending And Mass Resignations Threaten To Implode RNC
I think of it as no big deal, I suppose, because it was only a little more than a year ago that they elected Steele to head the RNC. At the time, he seemed like the best choice available, even if one didn't consider the obvious problem Republicans have with appealing to black voters. The others seemed even more corrupt and crazy than he was.
That's what I take away from this - these guys still have no ability to run anything, even their own party. As bad as the Democrats have been lately, they still manage to look good next to these guys.
As things stand right now, the only thing standing between the Republicans and control of the House this fall is themeselves.
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Recommend getting and reading Paul Preston "The Spanish Civil War, Reaction, Revolution & Revenge" ISBN 978-0-00-723207-9 for a competently and authoritatively written history of the Spanish Civil War.
The exact same process witnessed in today's events had their parallel in 1930's Spain, the conflict between the economic, political elite is not changed from the obstructionist, negating positions taken to eviscerate their democratic rivals. What will happen tomorrow can be read here in this history. This will not end well.
A takeover by fascists, no doubt posing as populists, is certainly a possibility here. That much I can see without the help of a history book. I'm sure you're right, though, and if things are that parallel, there probably are other lessons to learn.
Sadly, the people who really need to learn those lessons probably won't.
A thumbnail sketch of Spain 1931-35:
a) King abdicates unable to govern, Republic formed.
b) Political left elected, left coalition government formed.
c) Minority elite abstain and obstruct. Govt. falls.
d) Left divided, Elite win, refuse to govern. Govt. fails.
e) Left coalition returned to power, unable to function as result of further Elite obstruction, subsequent military revolt divides government/military. Civil war begins.
f) Legitimate government unsupported internationally, military insurrection supported by Fascist Italy, Nazi Germany, Franco usurps command of military, terrorizes population, becomes dictator.
Sadly those who need to learn those lessons are the voters, The corruption of both current political parties is complete, there is no salvageable edifice extant, returning the same to power is irrational. The corporate control of the economic process and subsequently the political process has eviscerated government, a shell incapable and incompetent to exercise power, tax, or adjudicate, populated by wholly owned hacks at all levels of administration and management.
With Fascism, Government retains competency to exercise power for corporate benefit. This is corporate competency exercising power behind the illusion of government for corporate benefit, something new entirely and easily misidentify-able, a different game altogether.
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