Steve Schmidt: It's A 'Blizzard Of Lies' That's Tough To Stop

[babylonsister]

https://crooksandliars.com/2018/06/steve-schmidt-its-blizzard-lies-thats

Steve Schmidt: It's A 'Blizzard Of Lies' That's Tough To Stop
By Susie Madrak
6/26/18 6:10am
1 hour ago by Susie Madrak
Video at link~

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This morning, they had Steve Schmidt on to discuss Trump using immigration to whip up his base.

"There will be no small number of soybean farmers who lose their farms generationally because of the trade war Donald Trump has precipitated. Because when the markets dissipate, when they dry up, they're gone, the Chinese have been buying their soybeans from Brazil, for example," he said.

"But you look at his undermining of the U.S.-led liberal global order. His sundering of the Atlantic alliance. His zero-sum belief that might makes right. Real lack of imagination for the capacity for tragedy in the world caused by someone like this. but we're seeing somebody use lies to incite fervor in a base."

Scarborough pointed out the lies are easily called out. "'We have to build a wall, we have illegal immigration.' No, illegal immigration down for eight years. The president demanded a study --that he demanded --shows refugees added $63 billion to our economy over the past decade. They killed the study. 'Immigrants cause crime. All these gang members come over. No, it's .07%, something like 350 out of 300,000."

"It's a blizzard of lies where the rapidity of lying is tough to stop and refute all of them," he said. (Ed. note: We hear you, Steve!)

"The building of a fervor. We see scapegoating of vulnerable populations. We see the allegation of conspiracy, hidden nefarious forces conspiring with the scapegoated populations," he said.

"We see a sense of mass victimization, the high-octane fuel of Trumpism. Sean Hannity, Laura Ingraham, everybody is a victim. Now they might be a victim flying around on their G-650 (jet), but a victim they are nonetheless."

Schmidt went on to say that when we look at Trump right now, "we see Republican party conservatism. There is only one requirement now to be labelled a conservative in good standing -- absolute total obedience to Trump. It doesn't matter what he says so in the 240th year in the independence of the United States, in three states by 78,000 votes, the American people by a fluke elected an imbecilic former reality TV show host and con man whose only affinity for reading anything were the Adolf Hitler speeches he kept on his nightstand.

"So are we on the edge of a tragedy that will unfold for this? America's decline is beginning and we should make no mistake about this. The U.S.-led liberal global order is in peril. It's in threat. Will he take us out of the World Trade Organization? Will he undermine the international system that Franklin Roosevelt conceived, that was sustained through Ronald Reagan and Barack Obama? It's anyone's guess."

[no_hypocrisy]

1. Gish Gallop

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gish_gallop

[FakeNoose]

2. They're listening to Faux News, does that make them Trump's base?

Or maybe it's Faux News' base

[C_U_L8R]

3. It's only going to get worse.

Trump is amassing more power (and confidence) every day.
If he's not checked at this election, it may be too late.

[NCDem47]

4. This!

I agree. For his first year he was a dumb deer in the headlights. Didn’t he say something about wishing for his old life back? But since January of this year you can tell he has become more empowered and his thirst for control and authority are firmly becoming entrenched. His confidence in doing or saying anything is off the charts. Oh, he understands the power of the presidency in the darkest, most insidious way and he’s just going to keep pushing boundaries. Craven d-bag.

[RandomAccess]

5. Exactly -- not only that

He's getting ideas at least, if not actual instructions and prompts from people (Putin? Some or Putin's oligarchs?) about what havoc to wreak next.

ETA: Actually, I'm not at all sure it won't be too late BEFORE next election. We desperately need Reublicans to start standing up to him more. I'm contacting my three idjit MoC frequently -- I love the free faxes which I can easily send in the evening and have waiting for staff to pick up the next morning:

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