Posted on 08/13/2017 10:46:32 PM PDT by Oshkalaboomboom
For the past seven months, fellow conservatives have pointed to Donald Trump’s appointment of Neil Gorsuch to the Supreme Court and the deregulatory efforts of the Trump White House, among other things, and then demanded to know why my view of this presidency has remained negative.
Charlottesville is why.
There are policies the administration has pursued with which I disagree. And there have been incompetencies in the pursuit of policies like the repeal of ObamaCare I’ve found disheartening.
But these are disagreements and failings I could live with, I think, when I consider what the policy alternatives might have been under Hillary Clinton.
I couldn’t live with myself if I supported a president who can’t bring himself to denounce Nazis and white supremacists unqualifiedly and by name.
I’ve also been basically ordered to support the president by conservative intellectuals for the good of America, just as Daenerys Targaryen keeps telling Jon Snow on “Game of Thrones” to bend the knee to save Westeros.
“This is a civil war,” the former media mogul Conrad Black wrote this week about the liberals who are seeking to destroy Trump, and Black insists that “the choice, for sane conservatives, is Trump or national disaster.”
Really? And what if the choice is between national disaster and . . . national disaster?
Like everybody else, our president watched video of a white supremacist deliberately drive a car into a crowd of liberal protesters, and then back up the car and drive back over them again. And our president responded by condemning violence “on many sides” and offering his “best regards” to the casualties.
This was not a mistake on Trump’s part. This was a deliberate communications choice.
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Does he mean that Trump was wrong to condemn Antifa? Does Podhoretz support Antifa?
Podhertz is a piece of crap.
No you are a NeverTrumper because you know it guarantees you TV spots with your liberal buddies. It pays the bills traitor.
“They weren’t carrying Nazi flags and chanting, “Jews will not replace us.”
“Jews will not replace us.”
Are there more than three people in this country who think that line was a sincere expression of the ones who were chanting it? Plain and simple — plants, provocateurs.
Uniparty circus clown/useless eater ALERT!
The writer,John Podhoretz , claims to be a ‘conservative”, this guy is a a phony, a real lib, never Trumper, who is in “left” field.
Because impeachment....
I stand with President Trump!
Gay, feckless, fat, confused, weak and ignorant are no way to go through life.
The enemies of the state are sitting in a basement in Kalorama planning all this crap and funding BOTH sides of what happened in Charlottesville.
You will never convince me otherwise.
If Podhoretz is a journalist, why doesn’t he report on that?
This guy has always benn a tool.
Just pull the trigger you pansy! Put the gun in your mouth and DO IT!
Wimp!
I couldn’t live with myself if I supported a president who can’t bring himself to denounce Nazis and white supremacists unqualifiedly and by name.
Podhoretz, like a lot of others, puts too much into the jewish vote.
The jewish vote can’t affect the national election.
Less than 6 million jews in US in 1980 and approx. 7 million in 2016 of which 3 million live in California and New York.
How many were of voting age?
Bah humbug.
I really have come to believe that the Republican establishment is not paying enough taxes. I used to think the reverse, but, as we lowered their taxes they seem to have become less conservative and more passive do nothing in nature. They act as someone who has what they need and don’t seem to be aggressive in politics or reciprocate with the rest of us.
When BlackLivesMatter-inspired thugs were murdering police officers, brutalizing white by-standers, and looting cities, did Podhoretz demand that Obama condemn BlackLivesMatter or hold them accountable for the violence? I'd bet he didn't. In contrast, President Trump condemned the violence on both sides - and evidently that's not good enough for Podhoretz any more than it's good enough for Chuck Schumer.
One thing I admire about President Trump is he won’t bend to pressure to have words put in his mouth like he’s a puppet. The NeverTrumpers will never be satisfied with whatever he says. The Trump hatred on and of CNN and MSNBC is pathological. I’ve tuned them out, completely.
I'll say. Why do you feel the need to denigrate one great man in order to defend another?
Wait a minute LS, isn't Soro's funding Antifa as well? So all of this is his chaos to stop PDJT's momentum and agenda? So we are all being played at a grand scale?
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