None dare call it treason, but perhaps one day they will
Opinion by Joe Scarborough
What a tremendous burden it must be for you to still be defending President Trump. You have called yourself a constitutional conservative for decades, but now you sit silently as the president pushes to move this years election because he might lose. Even some Republican senators are speaking up. Why arent you?
Trump remembers how you ran interference for him when he claimed unlimited powers under Article II of the Constitution, so he thinks you will stay quiet. Remember your silence after Charlottesville? You eventually mustered the nerve to claim Trump never preached moral equivalence between torch-carrying Nazis and protesters. How unthoughtful it was of David Duke to expose you by praising the presidents putrid performance and thanking Trump for his honesty and courage to tell the truth. The former Ku Klux Klan grand wizard even bragged to reporters that Charlottesville represented a turning point for white nationalism. We are going to fulfill the promises of Donald Trump, Duke proclaimed. Thats why we voted for [him].
Ouch. That one had to sting, but you kept on defending Donald.
If you had a political soul after that shameful stunt, the Cold Warrior in you would have been as sickened by Trumps retreat from Germany as U.S. strategists were over his ceding of Syria to Vladimir Putin, handing Moscow a foothold in the Middle East for the first time since 1973. No country was a closer ally during the Cold War than West Germany, and no nation is more critical to Europes future now than a unified Germany. Undermining the U.S.-German alliance because of an ignorant misunderstanding of NATOs dues structure undermines the historic work that Ronald Reagan and George H.W. Bush completed throughout the Cold Wars final years.
But there you are, silently supporting a demagogue who sits by while intelligence suggests Russias leader put bounties on the heads of young American troops. Trump instead plays Putins apologist by declaring the United States equally guilty.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/07/30/what-tremendous-burden-it-must-be-you-still-be-defending-donald-trump/
lagomorph777
(30,613 posts)...even with his fecal base.
Kid Berwyn
(14,869 posts)...would still stink of treason.