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On today’s episode of “The Most Trusted Name in News,” CNN anchor Anderson Cooper continues his torrid pace of making nonsensical hyperbolic comparisons between Donald Trump and his supporters to some of history’s most horrific events.
As you might recall, Cooper in early January laughably declared that Republicans who continued to follow Trump were “like a nihilistic death cult.”
“Let me ask you, the Republicans just lost the Senate and, you know, you had Donald Trump Jr. earlier this morning saying, you know, this is Donald Trump’s Republican Party, which we have said over and over and over again, which clearly it is now,
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A rush transcript of This Week with George Stephanopoulos airing on Sunday, January 31, 2021 on ABC News is below. This copy may not be in its final form, may be updated and may contain minor transcription errors. For previous show transcripts, visit the This Week transcript archive.
ANNOUNCER: This Week With George Stephanopoulos starts right now.
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DR. VIVEK MURTHY, FORMER U.S. SURGEON GENERAL: We re in a race against the variants.
RADDATZ: While the nation waits to get vaccinated.
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Paul Constant is a writer at Civic Ventures and a frequent cohost of the Pitchfork Economics podcast with Nick Hanauer and David Goldstein.
In the latest episode, Civic Ventures president Zach Silk spoke with Bill Hogseth, a political organizer from rural Wisconsin, about the challenge of reaching rural voters.
Hogseth says Democrats need to fight for small businesses and independent farms and against corporate monopolies if they want to win back support in rural areas.
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The RNC is expected to welcome potential candidates, including former President Donald Trump, for the 2024 presidential election and GOP leaders to the April event (Getty Images)
For the Republican Party, Donald Trump is still to be a forgotten man. The former president, who retreated to his luxury resort in Mar-a-Lago, Florida, on the morning of the inauguration day, hours before Joe Biden took oath as his successor, said before exiting that he will be back in some form after repeatedly claiming that the 2020 presidential election was not a fair one. Now, it has been reported that the Republican National Committee (RNC) is planning to send him an invite to its spring donor meeting in April.
Goodbye Donald Trump
The January 6 failed coup is a symptom of decay. Even with a near $2 trillion rescue package the Biden administration is unlikely to revive the American dream, says Jack Conrad
There can be no better way of beginning this valedictory article on Donald J Trump than by quoting Marx quoting Hegel. Here are the seemingly casual opening lines of
The eighteenth Brumaire of Louis Bonaparte (1852):
Hegel remarks somewhere that all facts and personages of great importance in world history occur, as it were, twice. He forgot to add: the first time as tragedy, the second as farce.
Ever since his unexpected election victory over Hillary Clinton in November 2016, Trump was busily agitating, manoeuvring, campaigning to ensure that, by fair means or foul, he would remain US president - not only till 2024, but 2028 and perhaps beyond (he talked of “negotiating” a third term, even though since the time of George Washington there has been an unofficial two-term time lim