The painful truth about Covid and the economy – Trump is to blame | Robert Reich Read moreThe Democratic party is basically a governing party, organized around developing and implementing public policies. The Republican party has become an attack party, organized around developing and implementing political vitriol. Atwater, trained in the southern swamp of the modern Republican party, once noted: “Republicans in the south could not win elections by talking about issues. As a result, the party that’s mainly good at attacking has been winning elections – and pushed into governing, which it’s bad at. All this may change in a few months when Americans have an opportunity to replace the party that’s bad at governing with the one that’s good at it.

Source: The Guardian August 16, 2020 04:52 UTC