Randahl FinkWhen politicians do the exact opposite of what they promised in the election campaign, you know creative explanations are coming.
Here is what Republicans came up with — and yes, this is real:
MarjorieR@randahl so they are dating this back to the Iranian Revolution (1979)?
Maybe we, and they, should remember what had happened before that:
"In the 1940s, there were hopes that Iran could become a constitutional monarchy, but a 1953 coup aided by U.S. and U.K. removed the elected prime minister, and Iran was ruled as an autocracy under the Shah with American support from that time until the revolution. The Iranian monarchy lasted until the Islamic Revolution in 1979, when the country was officially declared an Islamic republic".
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Iran
And what precipitated the 1953 coup? It was that the then government was proposing to nationalise their oil industry.
See a pattern here?
Massimo@marjolica @randahl surprise surprise. Always the same pattern. Search for the origin of the term “banana republic”. Ok: It wasn’t about oil. But for the rest. Same same.