Thursday, November 10, 2016

Harvard Professor and Obama Donor Theda Skocpol: The Republican Agenda Is Going to Happen and There's Nothing The Democrats Can Do To Stop It.


The New York Times reports:
The Republican agenda “is going to happen,” Theda Skocpol, a Harvard professor, told me, “and there is nothing Democrats can do to stop it.”

Democrats would then have only one good option: describing what was really happening, clearly and repeatedly.

“Repealing Obamacare” will mean taking health insurance — and, by extension, medical care — from millions of people (including many lower- and middle-income whites). Trump’s proposed tax cut will bestow an average $1.1 million tax cut on the top 0.1 percent of earners. The resulting lack of government funds will rob schools and promising medical research of funding. Rolling back environmental regulations will increase pollution and its adverse effects on health and, most worrisomely, the damage from climate change.
Imagine that.