The most frightening line in the book

Conservatives, he (Frum) writes later, will never abandon conservatism. If the day comes when they conclude that their side can’t win elections democratically, “they will reject democracy.” Trumpocracy warns that the day of reckoning is upon us—that the liberal democracy that is our heritage “imposes limits and requires compromises,” and that Trumpism is its mortal enemy

Hey Hal - are you saying Tomasky is wrong in this piece with his "Sanders is a punish-the-malefactors type, and Clinton is a fix-the-problem type " framing, or that "fix the problem" is a worse focus than punish the offenders???

Jesus noted, "the poor will be with us always", but so will the rich assholes - the French tried wiping them out in 1789, and just promoted a new class of rich assholes in their place. Pol Pot tried it in 1975, killing any "intellectual" identified by just wearing glasses, and thus destroyed the country for several generations. So I don't much see a way around it except to find ways to work with the rich assholes, not expect they can be circumvented.