Posted on 08/25/2018 1:00:15 AM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
What the president’s supporters fear most isn’t the corruption of American law, but the corruption of America’s traditional identity.
On Wednesday morning, the lead story on FoxNews.com was not Michael Cohen’s admission that Donald Trump had instructed him to violate campaign-finance laws by paying hush money to two of Trump’s mistresses. It was the alleged murder of a white Iowa woman, Mollie Tibbetts, by an undocumented Latino immigrant, Cristhian Rivera.
On their face, the two stories have little in common. Fox is simply covering the Iowa murder because it distracts attention from a revelation that makes Trump look bad. But dig deeper and the two stories are connected: They represent competing notions of what corruption is.
Cohen’s admission highlights one of the enduring riddles of the Trump era. Trump’s supporters say they care about corruption. During the campaign, they cheered his vow to “drain the swamp” in Washington, D.C. When Morning Consult asked Americans in May 2016 to explain why they disliked Hillary Clinton, the second-most-common answer was that she was “corrupt.” And yet, Trump supporters appear largely unfazed by the mounting evidence that Trump is the least ethical president in modern American history. When asked last month whether they considered Trump corrupt, only 14 percent of Republicans said yes. Even Cohen’s allegation is unlikely to change that....
(Excerpt) Read more at theatlantic.com ...
Why Trump Supporters Believe He Is Not Corrupt
Michael Cohen’s admission that Donald Trump had instructed him to (ALLEGEDLY) violate campaign-finance laws by paying hush money to two of Trump’s mistresses. It was the (ADMITTED not) alleged murder of a white Iowa woman, Mollie Tibbetts, by an (ILLEGAL not) undocumented Latino immigrant, Cristhian Rivera.
And the writer probably has no idea as to why we would see his reporting as corrupt.
Consider it intelligence gathering.
I don’t know about your church experience. A couple of the churches I came up in would occasionally expound the doctrines of other religions, even bringing in former members to do it, for the sake of forwarning, dare I say immunizing particularly the young people of the church against these doctrines.
No one accused the church of permitting the preaching of heresies...
Yep - seems that so many ignore than none of those after Trump could survive 1/100th of the probing he has endured and remain untouched by actual criminal discoveries...same for 99.5% of the general population.
From the Left, yet another complete misunderstanding of Trump supporters and 100% mishandling of information
As Sun Tzu wrote: “If you know the enemy and know yourself, you need not fear the result of a hundred battles. If you know yourself but not the enemy, for every victory gained you will also suffer a defeat. If you know neither the enemy nor yourself, you will succumb in every battle.” ― Sun Tzu, The Art of War
I personally find it very helpful to read all this leftist B.S., and I appreciate seeing it on FreeRepublic so that I don't have to watch or read the leftist media myself.
Stopped reading right there.
Yeah lets turn FR into an echo chamber where its all sunshine and puppies.
And FNC should NEVER have a guest on who might express a view we disagree with.
I guessed I’m weird. I want to know what’s going on with the opposition without having to go over to DU or watch MSNBC//CNN.
“Why Trump Supporters Believe He Is Not Corrupt”
Uh, we probably believe that because it’s the lying fake stream enemedia that’s corrupt, not President Trump ... We Trump supporters quit listening to the lying leftist fake stream enemedia years ago because we know they’re nothing but a bunch of lying, anti-Trump propagandists promoting the Democrat Party ... so of course we don’t care what bullshit the lying leftist fake stream enemedia is spewing ..
the lying leftist fake stream enemedia has finally reaped what’s it been sowing for the last three years: namely complete lost of all credibility; no one who’s truly been paying attention listens to them anymore ... they can cry wolf falsely only so many times until no one believes them anymore ... and that time has finally arrived for the lying leftist fake stream enemedia: they’ve cried wolf hundreds of times every day for three years now and every speck of their credibility is gone forever and can never be recovered ... ever ...
Agreed, but even though it is garbage a lot of people think this way. I might be wrong but I think there is some value to seeing the other sides viewpoint, flawed as it is.
There’s so much of this stuff posted here I may just go to NYTimes.com, washingtonpost.com etc. to read the original.
And there’s absolutely nothing new to any of it, it’s the same recycled intellectual insult garbage we get from those sources day after day after day after day.
I’ve posted a total of 40,878 threads as of right now. I think I know what’s read here and what’s appropriate by now, or I probably never will.
What the president’s supporters fear most isn’t the corruption of American law, but the corruption of America’s traditional identity.
What Beinart’s supporters want most is the corruption of American law, and the corruption of America’s traditional identity.
Totally.
“Rush says they hate us as much as Trump.”
The Left hates you and wants you dead.
Plan accordingly.
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Good advice. There’s a storm brewing.
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