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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 presidents allies in Washington: the universe in which views of Mr. Trump quickly harden in the rights 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.
C_U_L8R
(44,992 posts)Hey Republicans... go suck it.
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)DBoon
(22,340 posts)Nt
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)wanting someone fired for cause and using a firing for cause as part of cover up.
unitedwethrive
(1,997 posts)lovemydogs
(575 posts)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)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)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.