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With Jeb Bush as the Republicans’ presumptive nominee, the 2016 Presidential election promised to be unusually strange even before it got underway.

Jeb’s big brother, George W., was the most destructive and god awful American President in modern times. The enduring harm that blunderbuss laid on the United States and the world is incalculable. And yet his dopey little brother was the favorite candidate of the Republican wing of the American plutocracy. This is what our politics has come to!--AL

Your precious hours are gonna be filled to the last second with good reading when you go to CounterPunch over the weekend.  A veritable smorgasbord of opinion, polemic, clarity, and truth awaits you, so get real and read all of it. You're kidding yourself if you think you have something better or more important to do.

U.S. alt-culture never had it so good until this moment.

Questioning what our politics has come to is a big theme in perpetuity at CP, which is the way it ought to be.

I pitched in with all the contentiousness of an angry monk in Money, Gender Politics and Democratic Denial, a re-write of a piece I published here last week.

"Why did BS run as a Dem?" CD wrote to me after his reading.

In keeping with the theme, I commented, "Good question."

The strange is getting stranger, as Levine ably points out, and you, me, and everybody but the ostriches and loons knows it.


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