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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis video by Legal AF is amazing in how the republicans have corrupted
our politics way before trump, the criminal in chief, arrived in Washington. Lisa Graves talks with Sidney Blumenthal and Sean Wilentz about how the oligarchs created our supreme court starting with the GW Bush theft of the 2000 election.
John Roberts is every bit as nasty as Kavanaugh or Thomas or Alito.
It's about a 30-minute long video, but well worth the listen.

rurallib
(64,234 posts)BComplex
(9,608 posts)but there's always so much more to learn about the history of fascism/totalitarianism trying to take hold in the good ole USA with these crooks/creeps, isn't there?
The history behind Roberts was something I had no idea about.
Wild blueberry
(7,950 posts)I became aware of DU during the horrible months of waiting to find out whether Al Gore would be our next president.
When the Court Formerly Known as Supreme gave the presidency to W Bush, I had as the profoundly dread-filled feeling as I did when Frump "won" in 2016. It felt as though our country was finished, that democracy would die.
This interview details first-hand knowledge of what happened in 2000-2001, the connections to Kavanaugh and Coney Barrett, as well as rotten Roberts, and gives more context to our current hell.
Well worth watching. Thank you.
BComplex
(9,608 posts)capitulation and manipulation by the right wing. We never heard about any of this back then on any documentaries or news programs. If we are going to survive as a democracy, we're going to have to find out a way to get the truth out to the voters, and warn about the propaganda we are fed on every commercial station.
republianmushroom
(21,606 posts)BComplex
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