The GOP Won't Introduce A New Party Platform For 2020. So What Does It Stand For? - "'And the moral of the entire story, as Boehner's chief of staff put it to me at the time, he said, 'Look, you can slice and dice this one hundred different ways. But ultimately, we fed the beast that ate us.' And I think that that is about as appropriate a metaphor for this last 10 to 15 years of Republican politics as you could hope to find.'" [ed. note: from 8/2020]
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How coal holds on in America: In North Dakota coal country, officials rally to save a coal-fired power plant at renewable energy’s expense. - "One farmer who was happy when he heard the polluting coal plant may shut down said he did not dare discuss that publicly. 'If we were to be quoted, and it got in The Washington Post, our farm would be targeted,' he said, describing the area as 'Trumpian to the max.'
"'They would come out there, and I think they would start shooting holes in the tires,' the farmer added. 'That is how bad it is. I really believe that. We would be ostracized within our community.'"
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