We’ve been carrying on for a long time about the BananaRepublic. In the last month alone we registered so many objections our insults glaze over. (See Banana Republicans, Rubber Stamps, Regime Change, Pants On Fire and No Full Stop).
So we couldn’t help noticing with a certain amount of self-satisfaction that just yesterday Paul Krugman asked, “Do we have to wait for a constitutional crisis to realize that we’re in danger of becoming a digital-age banana republic?”
We concede he was not pointing at the use of torture and military tribunals that prohibit habeus corpus, as we were, but at “vote suppression and defective — or rigged — electronic voting machines” in Florida during the recent midterm election. But let’s not split hairs.
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