A Timely Reminder . . .

Related Off-site Links:
GOP Tax Bills Are Theft From Working People – Jeff Johnson (The Stand, November 29, 2017).
Bernie Sanders: This Tax Bill Will Be Remembered As One of the Greatest Robberies in American History – Tim Hains (Real Clear Politics, December 1, 2017).
The GOP Tax Scam Two-Step: Explode the Deficit With Cuts for Rich, Then Screw the Poor – Jake Johnson (Common Dreams, December 2, 2017).
“Tax Reform”? No, GOP Plan Is “Wealth Care” – Dave Zweifel (Madison Capital Times via Common Dreams, December 3, 2017).
“This Is Class Warfare”: Tax Vote Sparks Political Brawl Over Populism That Will Carry Into 2018 Elections – David Weigel, Robert Costa, and Paul Kane (The Washington Post, December 2, 2017).
U.S. Elections: A Poor Substitute for Democracy – Paul Street (TruthDig, November 30, 2017).
GOP Voter Suppression Is the Country’s Greatest Scandal – Jay Michaelson (The Daily Beast, November 8, 2017).
The GOP’s Voter Suppression Playbook Is Real and Treasonous – Hunter Walk (The Huffington Post, February 13, 2017).
American Democracy Is Now Under Siege by Both Cyber-Espionage and GOP Voter Suppression – Ari Berman (The Nation, July 12, 2017).
How Do Republicans Get Away With Voter Suppression? – Mark Karlin (TruthOut, January 1, 2017).
Investigative Reporter Greg Palast: GOP Stole 2016 Election Using Voter Suppression and Purging Ploys – Kasia Anderson (TruthDig, November 17, 2016).
Paul Krugman: The Entire Republican Party Is Rotten to the Core – Jacob Sugarman (AlterNet, December 1, 2017).
Fascism’s Rising in America Because America Doesn’t Understand Fascism – Umair Haque (Eudaimona & Co, November 27, 2017).
Overwhelming Majority of Americans Believe that Both Parties Are Too Corrupt to Change Anything . . . “This, in Fact, Is a Revolution” – Washington's Blog (February 8, 2016).

UPDATES: Gangster Capitalism and Nostalgic Authoritarianism in Trump’s America – Henry Giroux (Salon via TruthDig, December 5, 2017).
Donald Trump Is Just the Front Man for a Massive Heist – Robert L. Borosage (The Nation, December 5, 2017).

See also the previous Wild Reed posts:
• With Republicans at the Helm, It's the United States of Hypocrisy
• A Profoundly Troubling and Tragic Indictment
• Phillip Clark on the “Karmic Wake Up Call” of a Year Ago
• Trump's America: Normalized White Supremacy and a Rising Tide of Racist Violence
• On International Human Rights Day, Saying "No" to Donald Trump and His Fascist Agenda
• Progressive Perspectives on the Election of Donald Trump as President
• Progressive Perspectives on the Rise of Donald Trump
• Trump's Playbook