What Trump did to Kelly shows how far we have fallen
Source: Washington Post
What Trump did to Kelly shows how far we have fallen
By E.J. Dionne Jr. Opinion writer October 22 at 7:54 PM
The United States is in the middle of a very unfortunate experiment in how disoriented a great nation can become before it loses its moorings entirely.
At times, politics seems fairly conventional with Republicans and Democrats arguing about health care and tax cuts, as they long have done. But former presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama reminded us last week that there is nothing normal about this moment. They issued searing, overlapping condemnations of Trumpism without naming President Trump. Former commanders in chief of opposing parties dont do this sort of thing unless the country faces an emergency.
Our disorientation is reflected further in the way honorable men and women allow themselves to be pushed into defending the indefensible and twisting noble concepts into cheap and ultimately shameful talking points. These are designed to get the president through one more news cycle or around some controversy he could easily quell if he had any familiarity with the words Im sorry.
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This is why all except the most blind Trump partisans had to be heartsick over the performance of White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly on Thursday. The retired Marine Corps general, who devoted his life to service and suffered stoically when he lost a son in combat, stepped out as a hatchet man against Rep. Frederica S. Wilson.
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Irish_Dem
(45,622 posts)dalton99a
(81,065 posts)SHRED
(28,136 posts)He's an enabler.
dalton99a
(81,065 posts)Botany
(70,291 posts)He stood up and lied and was proven wrong by the videotape.
Although if he keeps Trump from starting WW III then I'll cut him some slack.
https://www.democraticunderground.com/10141895857
democrank
(11,052 posts)Trump is a zero-star danger, also not a victim.