07-17-2018, 09:23 PM
I doubt it hurts him much with his base, if at all. He's virtually beyond reproach with them. I actually listened to Willie Cunningham this morning because I was interested to hear where he's fall on the issue of the summit.
I was a bit surprised to hear him be 100 percent ride or die with Trump, right along with his guest, Rand Paul. He even went with the "we do it, too" excuse when it comes to influencing elections in other nations. While the US has certainly done that and more abroad, it's kind of shocking for me to hear this from a rightwing talking head. The right has been the bastion of "American Exceptionalism" ever since the phrase became a thing. Now they're equating the actions of our military and intelligence services with that of one of the worst imaginable actors on the world stage in Vlad Putin. We're god's representative on earth, but at the same time we're no better than a kleptocrat who illegally annexes territory, funnels money to oligarchs (and himself), kills people who publicly oppose him in his own nation, and fantasizes about nuking Florida.
It didn't make America sound very exceptional at all. When liberals are critical of US policy abroad, we're unpatriotic and anti-America. Now however, the right must defend their wrecking ball, therefore our foreign policy is no better than Putin's Russia.
They have way too much to gain from keeping Trump in office. There's virtually nothing that will change their minds about him, this summit included.
I was a bit surprised to hear him be 100 percent ride or die with Trump, right along with his guest, Rand Paul. He even went with the "we do it, too" excuse when it comes to influencing elections in other nations. While the US has certainly done that and more abroad, it's kind of shocking for me to hear this from a rightwing talking head. The right has been the bastion of "American Exceptionalism" ever since the phrase became a thing. Now they're equating the actions of our military and intelligence services with that of one of the worst imaginable actors on the world stage in Vlad Putin. We're god's representative on earth, but at the same time we're no better than a kleptocrat who illegally annexes territory, funnels money to oligarchs (and himself), kills people who publicly oppose him in his own nation, and fantasizes about nuking Florida.
It didn't make America sound very exceptional at all. When liberals are critical of US policy abroad, we're unpatriotic and anti-America. Now however, the right must defend their wrecking ball, therefore our foreign policy is no better than Putin's Russia.
They have way too much to gain from keeping Trump in office. There's virtually nothing that will change their minds about him, this summit included.
