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Looks like they spelled everything correctly, though. Baby steps ...

 

To the Editor:

While Facebook and Mark Zuckerberg deserve the grilling they are getting on the Hill, I find it amazing that Robert and Rebekah Mercer and their control of Cambridge Analytica are not getting the same treatment.

There are laws about how much money individuals can donate to candidates. If the Mercers are behind this incredible abuse of information gathering, done solely to sway an election, then why are they not being called on the carpet just as dramatically?

Opinion | The Facebook Data Scandal and the Mercers

 

A little late to this...

Paul Ryan never wanted to play a part in the Trump Melodrama. He is a serious political leader. Trump mocked Ryan in the campaign and the early days of being in office. Ryan stood there, generally took it and likely plotted his exit.

(Also, as one who covered Wisconsin politics, Ryan is an actual good person. Same for the two Senators - Baldwin and Johnson, as was Herb Kohl -- who was the cranky grandpa. Walker and Feingold are documented tools, both possibly without souls.)

This actually plays out very well for Ryan.

Assume that Scott Walker loses in 2018 (if the Democrats, this time, can find someone more in-touch than the heir to a company that makes $3,000 bicycles).
Political winds always change. Saw it between 2008 and 2010. Between 2010 and 2012. Back to 2014.

By 2020, Trump will lose, Democrats will have the Senate, possibly the House. They'll overreach with their newfound power (as Republicans always do as well), and in 2022, Ryan can run for governor of Wisconsin -- and likely win.

 

This is a plausible scenario, but predicting what politics will look like in November 2022 is a high-risk endeavor. Too many events will take place to make it just cyclical. Cycles are powerful, but not all-powerful.

 

True but I would argue that our pendulum back and forth swings so frequently now that the predicted doom by some of the Republican Party in 2008 or the Democratic Party in 2014 isn't doom -- just wait til the next cycle.

 

This tweet was good in the beginning, then it went too far

 

I will never vote for anyone, for any office, who didn’t explicitly denounce Trump in 2015-16.

 

Trump and Trumpism aren't part of any cycle.

 

Huh huh.

Tremendous pressure.

Really hard.

 

We already know he doesn't use protection.