To stay focused he often doesn’t get to the higher-ups, the puppet masters like Mercer, Koch, Murdoch and the rest. Only we, the vast majority who do see what they are doing and know their horrific goals, can stop them. We wouldn’t be having any of the great discussions on DKos if we had failed to stay unified, if we’d not overcome the red states’ voter suppression and invalidation. It often seems to me that we need a term to describe a somewhat similar phenomenon in policy debates, which we might call the Big Grift. This should be a major scandal, but my suspicion is that many voters just won’t accept the idea that G.O.P.
