[WSMDiscuss] Democrats and Progressives Grapple With How Best to Vanquish Trump: Impeach, Bold Ideas, or Both?

[Frank Kashner]

Estelle, I agree with you, as long as, in everything we do to oppose Trump,
we identify "the men behind the curtain". If the Kochs wanted Trump gone,
he would be gone in a week, as the entire Republican party proclaimed
"Trump has gone too far this time" for some previously ignored outrage.

On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 10:03 AM Estelle Fein <leef at cruzio.com> wrote:

> What Mr. Kashner says is the absolute truth.
> But how do we begin to dismantle the Koch iron grip on the Republican
> Party?
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>        Is ignoring Trump ‘s vandalism helpful?
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> Remember that most folks do not even know who the Kochs are let alone
> their contribution to the destruction of democracy.
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> But everyone knows who Trump is and can make judgements about the state of
> the union based on his outrageous performance
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> I agree that all this is vapid without considering the Koch effect—but
>  it’s a step forward and we must take one step at a time
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> On Apr 25, 2019, at 6:03 AM, Frank Kashner via WSM-Discuss <
> wsm-discuss at lists.openspaceforum.net> wrote:
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> Any article about Trump that does not discuss the vast Koch led
> organization that guides and sustains him, is vapid.  As outlined in Nancy
> MacLean's book, Democracy in Chains, the Koch network controls the
> Republican party, numbers in the tens of thousands of operatives,
> academics, legislators, judges, lobbyists, lawyers, etc, and has billions
> of dollars at its disposal.  The question of whether to impeach Trump is
> only useful in its broader context; how do we take on the
> Libertarian-Authoritarian Koch empire that threatens every person on the
> planet. MacLean's book is unique in its research and goes far beyond Dark
> Money in that it finally reveals the scope and depth of the threat we face.
> Only when we understand that can we answer the question, what is to be done"
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> On Thu, Apr 25, 2019 at 1:19 AM Estelle Fein <leef at cruzio.com> wrote:
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