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UTUSN

(70,671 posts)
Wed Jul 5, 2017, 11:12 PM Jul 2017

Vanity Fair definitive guide to Repuke/spineless enablers of DRUMPF. I sure miss HTML 4 font size/

and yellow highlighting!1 Each named spineless dude section is detailed.

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http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/06/donald-trump-enablers
A Definitive Guide to the G.O.P. Insiders Enabling Donald Trump

Blame for the ongoing destruction wrought by the Trump administration will always attach to Donald Trump. But Trump cannot help himself. He is a pathogen, doing what pathogens do, and as surprised as anyone to have found himself replicating in the nation’s bloodstream. Equal blame will attach to a small group of experienced and seemingly rational politicians who knew exactly what Trump was like; who had cause to loathe and distrust him; who understood firsthand that he knew nothing about government and did not care to know anything; who could see clearly that he was dangerous, brutal, and corrupt; and who nonetheless decided, after occasional protests, to help him achieve and hold power. These are people who have been repeatedly belittled and mocked by Trump, who have sometimes been forced to voice their disgust at his words and actions, and who—for reasons that range from ambition and fear to denial and moral blindness—not only have declined to stand in his way but continue to prop him up. One or more of them may ultimately decide to defy him, but nothing will absolve them of the damage already done.

I. The Opportunist – Paul RYAN.

II. The Cynic – McCONNELL

III. The Stooge – PRIEBUS

IV. The Accomplice – PENCE

V. The Institutionalist – Lindsey GRAHAM

VI. The Gambler – McCAIN


THE VERDICT

The Trump administration may last for months or it may last for years. There will be crises and catastrophes. A corrosion of values and spirit has already set in. The outside world pulls away. John Boehner, the Republican former Speaker of the House, now retired and fortified with tobacco and Merlot, has called Trump “a disaster.” Donald Trump will suffer his own grim fate in the eyes of historians, but it will come with an asterisk: he is a profoundly damaged human being with no true understanding of his capacities, his emotions, his ignorance, his job, or the fundamentals of human decency.

His enablers will get no asterisk. They will be treated with the special contempt reserved for those who acted knowingly and cravenly, with eyes wide open.

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Vanity Fair definitive guide to Repuke/spineless enablers of DRUMPF. I sure miss HTML 4 font size/ (Original Post) UTUSN Jul 2017 OP
Cashing in 1 Rec for a bedtime self-Kick UTUSN Jul 2017 #1
good article - KT2000 Jul 2017 #2
K&R Hugin Jul 2017 #3
K&R! Excellent find! Wow! Rhiannon12866 Jul 2017 #4
K&r nt steve2470 Jul 2017 #5

KT2000

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2. good article -
Thu Jul 6, 2017, 02:06 AM
Jul 2017

what I was able to read of it as it kept crashing on me.

These indeed are spineless sycophants.

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