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  The Trump Slump is now You can't take a battering ram to every major institution in America and expect the economy to do well Robert Reich Mar 10 Friends, Apologies for intruding on your inbox for a second time today, but the message we’re getting from stock and bond markets deserves your attention. Recall that Trump was elected largely because Americans thought the economy was lousy and believed him when he said he’d fix it. Now, seven weeks after his inauguration, the bottom is falling out. Stocks are plunging. Treasury yields are falling. Consumer confidence is dropping. Inflation is picking up. Over the weekend, Trump refused to rule out a recession this year, telling Fox News there will be a “period of transition, because what we’re doing is very big.” Well, yes, if “very big” means destroying much of the federal government, allying with Putin against our traditional allies, and putting high tariff walls around America. The cost of living — the single biggest problem identif...

  How Russian trolls helped disrupt the Women's March against Trump: "Accounts at the Internet Research Agency, an organization based in St. Petersburg, and controlled by an ally of Putin, had boasted of propelling Trump to victory. That year, the group's budget nearly doubled, according to internal communications made public by American prosecutors. Under these auspicious conditions, their goals shifted from electoral politics to something more general - the goal of deepening rifts in American society. The job was not to put forward arguments, but to prompt a visceral, emotional reaction, ideally one of 'indignation'. The task is to make a kind of explosion, to cause controversy. As the Women's March drew nearer, the Russian trolls tested different approaches on different audiences, as they had during the run-up to the 2016 presidential election. They posed as resentful trans women, poor women, and anti-abortion women. They dismissed the marchers as pawns of...

WORTH READING! I stole this from Twitter but I read the book a long time ago. My father had a copy of it in our house when we were kids and he was not a closet Liberal, but a self-educated man from Smuteye Alabama. From @MarkJacob16 "With all the arguments over whether MAGA Republicans are fascists, I reread William Shirer’s “The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich” to see how much the rise of Hitler and the rise of MAGA smell similar...Conclusion: They do. I'm not saying that MAGA will end up as horrifically as Nazism. I am saying that America 2022 feels too much like Germany 1932, and I don't want to take the risk of watching MAGA cultism play out. We have to stop it now."This thread lists 10 ways. Please take a look. 1. A big lie about treachery is used to foment resentment. Nazis: We didn’t really lose World War I. It was a “stab in the back” by Jews and other "November criminals." MAGA: We didn’t really lose the 2020 election. It was a “steal” by politicia...