The Grand Old Party has quietly become the pro-Russia party — and not only because the party’s standard-bearer seems peculiarly enamored of Russian President Vladimir Putin. Under Republican leadership, the United States is starting to look an awful lot like the failed Soviet system the party once stood unified against. Supposedly middle-class workers — people who have government jobs that are supposed to be stable and secure — are waiting in bread lines. And for now, at least, most of those little people are too frightened of the government’s wrath to fight back overtly. The government may be officially shuttered, but President Trump decided to do an end run around the constitutionally mandated, democratic appropriations process.

Source: Washington Post January 21, 2019 22:56 UTC