02-24-2016, 01:49 PM
The logic of those folks who support this con man is amazing. If Trump is the price to pay for winning the White House, then this country is lost. The folks who enable this deceiver should be perpetually mocked. From Jonathan Last at the Weekly Standard:
...... But it turns out that Trumpism has corrosive effects, too. Witness how it has corrupted people in its orbit.
Nine months ago, if you had asked Sarah Palin, Scott Brown, Jerry Falwell Jr., or Ann Coulter whether they would endorse a figure who takes the Code Pink, Michael Moore, MoveOn.org view of Iraq ("Bush lied, people died"), one suspects they all would have recoiled at the prospect. Yet in the hours after Trump insisted that George W. Bush intentionally lied the country into war, not one of the major figures who have endorsed him was willing to contradict his claim.
Sarah Palin — John McCain's running mate — has been stonily silent on Trump's conspiracy theory. Contacted through his spokesman, Liberty University president Jerry Falwell Jr. declined to comment on it. Pressed by The Weekly Stand-ard's Michael Warren, Scott Brown issued a mealy-mouthed non sequitur, saying, "I'm more focused on how we deal with terror challenges of today, not yesterday." And Coulter, who has reached the stage in life where she is capable of falling in love serially with Mitt Romney and then Donald Trump, actually tweeted out a quasi-defense of Trump: "Bush also said Harriet Miers=qualified & amnesty wasn't 'amnesty,' so he did lie." Five days later she changed course somewhat in a column where she allowed that "Trump is right about President Bush not keeping us safe — though not about his 'Bush lied' argument that makes me want to strangle him." But don't worry, Coulter insisted that Trump didn't actually mean what he said, that he was just a "scamp" just "doing wheelies" and "taunting" the rest of the Republican party. Like so many of the people in thrall to Trumpism, Coulter believes that Trump is fully committed to everything he says. Except for when he's just posturing.
One needn't be an admirer of George W. Bush, or a believer in his freedom agenda, or even a supporter of the Iraq war to understand how pernicious this is. Whatever your views on the wisdom of Iraq, no serious person believes that Bush masterminded a massive fraud, with the help of his cabinet and the entire national security apparatus; that his "lies" then managed to fool the governments and intelligence agencies of a dozen allies; and that, somehow, none of the evidence of this scheme ever managed to leak into the open.
It is almost certain that none of Trump's endorsers actually believes this theory either. And yet these public figures refuse to contradict Trump's assertion because they do believe that acceptance of every one of Trump's utterances is the price of admission for Trumpism.
You see evidence of the ill-effects of Trumpism not just in Trump's endorsers, but among his enablers in conservative media, too. Rush Limbaugh, for instance, admitted that with his "Bush lied" line, "Trump sounded like the Daily Kos blog." "[O]n a Republican debate stage, defending Planned Parenthood in language used by the left, going after George W. Bush and Jeb Bush and the entire Bush family, for the most part, using the terminology of Democrats, people think that Trump was out of control, that he had emotional incontinence that night," Limbaugh said.
But Limbaugh then proceeded to construct an alibi for Trump. He floated the idea that, because South Carolina is an open primary, Trump was really just "strategically" "making a move on independents and Democrats."
People who ought to know better — who almost certainly do know better — seem to have embraced this article of faith: Trump is leading in the polls. Anyone leading in the polls is brilliant. So Trump is brilliant. Therefore everything Trump does or says must be brilliant, too.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/print/trumpism-corrupts/article/2001153
...... But it turns out that Trumpism has corrosive effects, too. Witness how it has corrupted people in its orbit.
Nine months ago, if you had asked Sarah Palin, Scott Brown, Jerry Falwell Jr., or Ann Coulter whether they would endorse a figure who takes the Code Pink, Michael Moore, MoveOn.org view of Iraq ("Bush lied, people died"), one suspects they all would have recoiled at the prospect. Yet in the hours after Trump insisted that George W. Bush intentionally lied the country into war, not one of the major figures who have endorsed him was willing to contradict his claim.
Sarah Palin — John McCain's running mate — has been stonily silent on Trump's conspiracy theory. Contacted through his spokesman, Liberty University president Jerry Falwell Jr. declined to comment on it. Pressed by The Weekly Stand-ard's Michael Warren, Scott Brown issued a mealy-mouthed non sequitur, saying, "I'm more focused on how we deal with terror challenges of today, not yesterday." And Coulter, who has reached the stage in life where she is capable of falling in love serially with Mitt Romney and then Donald Trump, actually tweeted out a quasi-defense of Trump: "Bush also said Harriet Miers=qualified & amnesty wasn't 'amnesty,' so he did lie." Five days later she changed course somewhat in a column where she allowed that "Trump is right about President Bush not keeping us safe — though not about his 'Bush lied' argument that makes me want to strangle him." But don't worry, Coulter insisted that Trump didn't actually mean what he said, that he was just a "scamp" just "doing wheelies" and "taunting" the rest of the Republican party. Like so many of the people in thrall to Trumpism, Coulter believes that Trump is fully committed to everything he says. Except for when he's just posturing.
One needn't be an admirer of George W. Bush, or a believer in his freedom agenda, or even a supporter of the Iraq war to understand how pernicious this is. Whatever your views on the wisdom of Iraq, no serious person believes that Bush masterminded a massive fraud, with the help of his cabinet and the entire national security apparatus; that his "lies" then managed to fool the governments and intelligence agencies of a dozen allies; and that, somehow, none of the evidence of this scheme ever managed to leak into the open.
It is almost certain that none of Trump's endorsers actually believes this theory either. And yet these public figures refuse to contradict Trump's assertion because they do believe that acceptance of every one of Trump's utterances is the price of admission for Trumpism.
You see evidence of the ill-effects of Trumpism not just in Trump's endorsers, but among his enablers in conservative media, too. Rush Limbaugh, for instance, admitted that with his "Bush lied" line, "Trump sounded like the Daily Kos blog." "[O]n a Republican debate stage, defending Planned Parenthood in language used by the left, going after George W. Bush and Jeb Bush and the entire Bush family, for the most part, using the terminology of Democrats, people think that Trump was out of control, that he had emotional incontinence that night," Limbaugh said.
But Limbaugh then proceeded to construct an alibi for Trump. He floated the idea that, because South Carolina is an open primary, Trump was really just "strategically" "making a move on independents and Democrats."
People who ought to know better — who almost certainly do know better — seem to have embraced this article of faith: Trump is leading in the polls. Anyone leading in the polls is brilliant. So Trump is brilliant. Therefore everything Trump does or says must be brilliant, too.
http://www.weeklystandard.com/print/trumpism-corrupts/article/2001153
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Deceitful, two-faced she-woman. Never trust a female, Delmar, remember that one simple precept and your time with me will not have been ill spent.
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