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A <i>Rolling Stone</i> postmortem on the Democrat fiasco in Iowa — 5 Comments

  1. I have a different take on this. I think it is the result of casual corruption that is deeply embedded into the culture of the DNC.

    In Venezuela they have a term for this. Its called a “guiso” (stew). The public treasury is a trough that everyone in power or close to power feeds from. That is the natural result of highly centralized and unchecked power.

    I am seeing signs of this same type of official corruption in the Democrats. Joe Biden and his son Hunter are emblematic and high profile examples, but it is the thousands of less high-profile cases that do the most damage.

    How did this company, Acronym get such a contract? Their expertise? Obviously not… They had political connections and leveraged them. No real qualifications needed. These practices produce shoddy results and over-pricing.

    So, for me, I am seeing a DNC that looks and sounds like a third-world banana republic. I think that the real source of their hatred of Donald Trump is that he is cutting off their access to the trough.

  2. Incompetence is easy but there was a low turnout, too. The Republicans seemed to have no trouble and my impression is that they held a similar caucus event.

  3. Roy Nathanson:

    You’ve got it right there: the Democrats have become big league corruptocrats. Chicago has been showing the way for many years; the rest of the party is running to catch up. Look at Catherine Pugh, the former mayor of Baltimore, who sold a book she wrote (allegedly — that’s up for question too) to the Baltimore school system and allegedly pocketed $800,000 from the scam. Then she avoided paying federal tax on the ill-got gains by just not reporting it. That’s some pretty big-league scamming there.

  4. AesopFan,

    Absolutely correct! The NeverTrumpers are mainly swamp denizens. They are as upset as the Democrats about the interruption to the status quo.

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