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n2doc

(47,953 posts)
Thu May 11, 2017, 04:14 PM May 2017

For Trump Supporters, the Real Outrage Is the Lefts Uproar Over Comey

WASHINGTON — The script should be familiar by now. President Trump takes action that stuns the country, eliciting indignation and disbelief from Democrats and leading them to conclude that the vitality of American democracy is under assault.

Yet among those who are sympathetic to the president — a minority, to be sure, but somewhere around 40 percent of the country, according to recent polls — the outrage is that Mr. Trump is again being held to an unfair standard set by the very people and institutions that tried to stop his election in the first place: Democrats, resentful Republicans and, perhaps most of all, the news media.

That has certainly been the divide as the country absorbed the news that Mr. Trump had fired James B. Comey as F.B.I. director. The move was widely hailed by conservatives online, on talk radio, on Fox News and among the president’s allies in Washington: the universe in which views of Mr. Trump quickly harden in the right’s collective consciousness.

More clearly than other recent Trump-induced uproars, the reaction to the Comey firing illustrated how many conservatives now justify their defense of the president as part of a fight against a rising tide of overreaction and manufactured hysteria by the left. Mr. Trump, who has long understood the political power of demonizing his opponents as crazed and irrational, has helped stoke those resentments.

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Fuck Trumpers. They put their 'god emperor' over their country. Traitors all.

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For Trump Supporters, the Real Outrage Is the Lefts Uproar Over Comey (Original Post) n2doc May 2017 OP
Oh please. C_U_L8R May 2017 #1
Trump supporters are trash nt geek tragedy May 2017 #2
Same ones who call the Civil War "the war of Yankee agression" DBoon May 2017 #3
too stupid or ignorant to understand the difference between Thomas Hurt May 2017 #4
Exactly!! unitedwethrive May 2017 #8
Eric Erickson writes 'The left will never believe President Trump...' lovemydogs May 2017 #5
God/dess but they're obtuse as heck... (some Cons deliberately so) WePurrsevere May 2017 #6
In my opinion... kentuck May 2017 #7

Thomas Hurt

(13,903 posts)
4. too stupid or ignorant to understand the difference between
Thu May 11, 2017, 04:34 PM
May 2017

wanting someone fired for cause and using a firing for cause as part of cover up.

lovemydogs

(575 posts)
5. Eric Erickson writes 'The left will never believe President Trump...'
Thu May 11, 2017, 04:38 PM
May 2017

“The left will never believe President Trump nor believe anything other than the worst possible conspiracies about him,” he wrote.'

Yep.

It's true. We will never believe Trump as he is a pathological liar.

As for how we treat Trump

1. Turn around is fair play. You treated Obama with the utmost disrespect. Time for payback.

2. Trump is an illegitimate President. a clown, buffoon, incompetent, over his head, traitor, ect. ect.

WePurrsevere

(24,259 posts)
6. God/dess but they're obtuse as heck... (some Cons deliberately so)
Thu May 11, 2017, 05:05 PM
May 2017


It's pretty simple really... People can be mad as heck with someone over one thing they did wrong and yet still defend them if/when they're attacked (fired, etc) wrongly on a totally different issue.

If you can't figure that out... please stay single, remain friendless, don't procreate and don't have any pets.

kentuck

(111,056 posts)
7. In my opinion...
Thu May 11, 2017, 05:12 PM
May 2017

It is apples and oranges. The Hillary "investigations" are over. Donald's investigations are still going on, regardless of what he says. Someone could have supported him being dismissed if he had falsely investigated Hillary Clinton and still support keeping him in his position while the extremely important investigation is still in process. It's a matter of national security.

Although many may not see the difference, I think there is a dramatic difference in the two examples.

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