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Posted on 11/15/2017 7:27:49 AM PST by EdnaMode
Last week’s anniversary of Trump’s election sparked widespread teeth-gnashing by the nation’s pundits. Trump is supposedly the gravest threat to American democracy since the secession of the Confederacy. His presidency, probably, continues to be a boon for antidepressant sales across the land.
New York Times columnist Michelle Goldberg, in a column last week headlined “Anniversary of the Apocalypse,” lamented the “terror-struck and vertiginous days” after Trump’s win and the ongoing “metaphysical whiplash” and “hideous interregnum,” which leaves her “poleaxed by grief at the destruction of our civic inheritance.” Professor Henry Giroux of McMaster University frothed that Trump’s “ascendancy in American politics has made visible a culture of cruelty, a contempt for civic literacy, a corrupt mode of governance and a disdain for informed judgment that has been decades in the making.”
It is understandable that folks would be riled by Trump’s bluster about revoking the broadcast licenses of his critics or calling for the firing of protesting football players. His administration’s rhetoric on trade and the drug war threaten to revive moronic policies that should have been banished forever by perennial failures. But while Trump poses plenty of constitutional perils, many of his opponents are even more authoritarian. Anti-Trump fervor is making liberals far more illiberal. Commentators in the Washington Post and New York Times have called for selective censorship of ideas and doctrines they abhor. A recent Washington Post article touted 38 fixes for democracy including mandating three years of compulsory labor for young people in the military of AmeriCorps-like programs, outlawing private education, punitively punishing gun owners, and vastly increasing redistribution to end racial inequities.
Thanks to Trump’s firing of James Comey, Democrats are exalting the FBI as if J. Edgar Hoover and COINTELPRO never existed. Political mob violence by Antifa against conservatives was vindicated in the Washington Post and cheered by prominent Democrats as the moral equivalent of the American soldiers who stormed Normandy beaches in 1944.
Some liberals believe the federal government should become domineering to vanquish the fascist tendencies of Trump supporters. But this is imprudent unless liberals irrevocably control all three branches of the federal government.
Unfortunately, Trump’s biggest follies (thus far) have evoked the loudest cheers from his Washington critics. Trump’s finest hour, according to much of the media, was sending 59 cruise missiles to blast the Syrian government based on mere allegations that it had carried out a chemical weapons attack. Pulling the rug from under the Iran deal (one of Obama’s solid achievements) was cheered by much of the foreign policy elite as if destabilizing the Middle East was akin to the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Trump’s threats to “totally destroy” North Korea spurred no effective resistance on Capitol Hill. But blundering into another war would do more harm to American democracy than 10,000 raving Oval Office tweets.
Many Democrats sound ready to rush to impeachment regardless of what Trump has actually done. They seem inspired by the Soviet secret police chief who declared: “Show me the man and I will show you the crime.” Desperate assertions that $3000 in Russian-linked Facebook ads swung the election results in Pennsylvania, Michigan, and Wisconsin are indicative of the pathetic logic of many Trump critics.
Many Trump opponents are the same type of zealots who, in the late 1700s, proudly labeled themselves “Friends of Government.” In their eyes, Trump’s greatest sin is tarnishing the majesty of the presidency and the federal government. Trump is exposing the sham of a Leviathan Democracy which pretends that presidents will be philosopher kings — instead of merely talented vote catchers. However, Trump cannot be blamed for destroying Americans’ trust in Washington. This was already achieved by presidents such as George W. Bush and Obama who the media occasionally exalted to the skies.
Trump’s critics are correct that the president has too much arbitrary power. But many people happy to believe the worst about Trump will heave all their skepticism overboard when the next political savior is anointed. Such naivete is being encouraged at the highest levels of Democratic Party. Recall that Hillary Clinton’s recent book declared that the lesson of George Orwell’s 1984 is that people should trust their leaders and the media.
Hysteria remains the 2017 political badge of honor. Last Wednesday, thousands of people gathered across the nation to shout at the sky to protest the anniversary of Trump’s victory. But righteous rage is no substitute for focusing on the real perils that Trump and any other president poses to our rights. The Friends of Freedom need to keep their intellectual ammo dry.
Yes, unhinged. They’ll be another election in three years. Till then suck it up, quit whining, and stop the histrionics.
And they’ll have 7 more years in which to go crazy.
Trump has completely exposed the MSM and GOPe as part of the problem.
Trump’s diplomacy (and direct request) got the UCLA shoplifting athletes back home. The press wouldn’t admit that. Or mention the $250 billion in business he secured while there.
Leftists and the establishment are in a total meltdown.
Wait until Moore wins in Alabama. The melt will continue!
It’s like watching a rope slowly fraying against the edge of the cliff the camera keeps focusing on..
“Seem” is a very kind description. They are rabidly unhinged.
Verbose Pinkos, each digging deep into their Thesaurus to try to find words which obfuscate their real message: “Trump is standing in the way of our proud Bolshevism.”
The more unhinged they get the more, ahem, "tumescent" I become.
They were crazy before and after the election, but not like this.
I think they started with (somewhat) rational political concerns — Roe v Wade might be in danger, Obamacare might be in danger, Fracking would hurt the environment, etc.
But now they seem to think Trump is a slobbering madman who needs to be removed from office, that having a staff member talk to a Russian citizen is an impeachable offense, and that Trump is probably the most extreme racist in history. They want to overturn the 2016 election, skip Pence and the rest and just make Hillary the president (hey, she did come in second — right??).
It’s pure crazy.
“Do Trump’s liberal critics seem increasingly unhinged?”
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President Trump continues to win in spite of the 24/7 fake news and lies spewed by the mediots, liberals and undocumented Democrats in Congress.
This is driving the insane liberals into deeper depressions and insanity.
Leftists and the establishment are in a total meltdown.
Wait until Moore wins in Alabama. The melt will continue!
Yes, the good news for our side continues!
There has been a 30 year plan put in place to steal the country by importing foreigners.
The final amnesty that would cement the Bush Plan for North Mexico (aka USA) into place has been sought repeatedly since 2006. They sold us Rubio to get the last one in 2013.
We have been prevented from electing anyone who would side with US and the rule of law.
Trump had the wealth and fame to break through the Bush blockade at the RNC.
They are not going to allow that to happen again.
The most important thing to the Uniparty is protecting the demographic changes they have made to the country against the will of the citizens.
That’s what drives the NeverTrump, the media and the Democrats hatred of Trump, it is an extension of their hatred of US.
“[President] Trump cannot be blamed for destroying Americans’ trust in Washington. This was already achieved by presidents such as George W. Bush and Obama who the media occasionally exalted to the skies.”
Exactly. However, I missed the part where the enemy Media LIKED Dubya. I’m so over him, now.
And to answer the question? They are nuttier than a Payday Candy Bar!
There are secrets and lies in shadowy places, and those with much to lose will do ANYTHING to keep those secrets from coming to light.
The leftists would have been happy with Jebbie, or Kasich.
But they were not prepared for being exposed for what they are:
#FAKEAMERICANS
#FAKENEWS
#FAKEWOMEN
#FAKEPRESIDENT (Obama)
#FAKEANGER
Schumer made a total ass of himself say he was embarrassed at Trump’s Asia trip.
Those people are clinically insane.
On one side, we have a population that relies on facts, truth, fair play, and common sense.
I actually thought he was talking about conservatives.
Then he continues...
On the other, well, who the hell knows what they rely on? Fox news, fake news, hackers, conspiracy theories, coal mines, fraud, misdirection, racism, stupidity, ignorance, warm beer, Jesus (a Jesus who hates anyone and anything that isn’t Christian), Trump, Hillary-bashing-as-a-sport, and guns. And more guns.
They are totally lost in their delusion.
When any bit of reality is presented to them they either reject it or go off on a screaming fit.
If they ever become truly organised and obtain arms we will have a new wave of Nazis to deal with.
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Obama and his OFA comes to mind.......trying to overthrow our government is Treason....U.S.Constitution: Whoever, owing allegiance to the United States, levies war against them or adheres to their enemies, giving them aid and comfort within the United States or elsewhere, is guilty of treason and shall suffer death, or shall be imprisoned not less than five years and fined under this title but not less than $10,000; and ...
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