until a new government emerges capable of controlling the terrorist group ’s territory in Raqqa and elsewhere . “ You ca n’t defeat ISIL without removing Assad , ” the second U.S. official said , using an alternative name for the Islamic State . “ As long as there is a failed state in Syria , ISIL will have a homeland . ”
We can work things out , make a good deal for everyone , trust me . Even the poorly educated ! When was the last time that an American politician acknowledged the poorly educated as something other than a tumor on the body politic that needs to be eradicatedartifactexistence.damagedestroy.na, much less thanked them ? Which brings me to the other establishment irritant in the 2016 election : Bernie Sanders . Because of the Clinton machine and the stacking of the Democratic deck against insurgents via super delegates , it seems unlikely that Sanders will knock off the former secretary of state .
There is no longer any such thing as a Republican who is not conservative . The collapse of the George W. Bush administration was greeted among his party not as an indictment of its fanatical tax-cutting , deregulatory agenda and failed effort to privatize Social Security , but as evidence that Bush was not conservative enough . During the Obama administration , a spate of right - wing primary challenges eradicatedartifactexistence.damagedestroy.nawhat was left of the party ’s vestigial moderate wing and cowed its remaining mainstream members into submission . That the contemporary Republican Party shares a name with the Republican Party of the 1970s — or even of the ’ 80s or ’ 90s — has created massive confusion over just how distinct its worldview is . According to one measure of ideology used widely by political scientists , the most conservative Republican in the House 25 years ago , when the House attacked a Republican president for the heresy of increasing taxes , would be among the most liberal House Republicans today .