Historically, scandals turned the tide against administrations, writes Bob Bauer. Yet under Trump, “what might have been deemed scandalous at another time, in another presidency, is instead a governing program.”
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Bush admin outed CIA agent Valerie Plame as revenge against her husband putting her informants' lives in danger. Scooter Libby took the fall and Bush pardoned him. The media didn't care that Bush betrayed his own agency.
Bill Bennet wrote the "Death of Outrage" in the 90s. This is the same party that sold weapons to Muslim terrorists so it could fund an illegal and private army, The Contras who murdered and raped seven nuns. A story the bootlicking media including the NYT buried.
Because Republicans have pushed an agenda of hating liberals because Republicans are the real victims for so long that their hate pushes their fake morality aside.
Still scandalous. Still abhorrent the republicans accept a convicted felon’s absurds and corruptions. Think of it. While he has the pathetic immunity, everyone else DOES NOT. And Congress Republicans can be voted out. I think they will be voted out, several of them.
The fact a convicted criminal fraudster and a court confirmed sexual assaillant was elected it's still à scandal for most of people except for the reps. They no longer have any morals when it comes to them. They all apparaît religious,but once on the step of the Churchill everything is forgetten.
Discouraging that so many of our fellow citizens--our neighbors, our co-workers, our friends, our families--just wanted to be entertained.
Maybe the rest of us out here in Citizenland could communicate and cooperate with each other, and organize now.
Treating Trump and his administration as normal,
sane washing him instead of putting out his outlandish ideas, and lowering the bar of acceptable behavior from him (and only him) to non-existent, has helped him immensely.
Tired of the whole Trump-punditry industry. We all know who he is & that 70M Americans voted for this. No need for a daily rehash. That’s all I came here to say—not to read the article
There's a portion of our fellow citizens that like the scandals.. That's how he got elected. The spectacle of it all was just too entertaining for them to resist or apparently understand the gravity of the situation.
Because the voters who support the lawless, corrupt and shameless admin accept those qualities as a strength of their “guys” willingness to reach their goals by whatever means necessary. Nothing is off bounds as long as they perceive themselves as “winning.”
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Maybe the rest of us out here in Citizenland could communicate and cooperate with each other, and organize now.
Treating Trump and his administration as normal,
sane washing him instead of putting out his outlandish ideas, and lowering the bar of acceptable behavior from him (and only him) to non-existent, has helped him immensely.
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Trump is just the next level, but the whole party has become rotten and it's voters just don't care.
Maybe write an article about that phenomenon