Posted on 08/15/2017 9:18:58 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
If Trump is the Republican id, this exchange between Laura Ingraham and Krauthammer is a dialogue between the ego and superego. Ingraham, a nationalist, is all about the agenda. Was Trump’s presser today a good thing? Well, she says, he made some solid points — but it wasn’t useful. It didn’t advance the ball on policy. Krauthammer, a conservative, isn’t interested in that right now. Was it moral, he asks? Was it right?
I wonder how many variations of this exchange are playing out within the administration tonight. Watch this quickie clip of Chuck Todd speculating that John Kelly’s going to end up having to talk people out of quitting over today’s spectacle. Um, I doubt it. Since when do Republicans balk at anything Trump does?
WATCH: @chucktodd: Pres. Trump has likely lost moral authority to speak for the country, and the Republican Party. https://t.co/oRlP3nmCy6
— NBC Nightly News (@NBCNightlyNews) August 15, 2017
Kelly himself is reportedly not a happy man this evening:
Uh-oh a source tells @SaraMurray new White House Chief of Staff John Kelly is very frustrated with how today played out.
— Shimon Prokupecz (@ShimonPro) August 15, 2017
He looked every inch of it standing off to Trump’s side during today’s presser.
Oh — this guy was unhappy too. I know, I know: He’s a cuck.
No, not the same. One side is racist, bigoted, Nazi. The other opposes racism and bigotry. Morally different universes.
— Mitt Romney (@MittRomney) August 16, 2017
Somehow the back and forth between Ingraham and Krauthammer ends with them debating whether Trump’s statement yesterday, in which he denounced white nationalists after hedging on Saturday, reflects what’s actually in his heart or not. If you don’t believe the reporting on that, just watch the guy talk. When Trump is reading from a script, it’s abundantly clear. He speaks more slowly and his sentences are conspicuously more measured than when he’s rat-a-tat riffing on his thoughts, as he obviously was today. What happened the past few days isn’t complicated. He softballed his comments about the alt-right on Saturday, was cajoled by his aides into saying something more emphatic about them yesterday, then resented the fact that he’d been pressured into clarifying his remarks and decided to double down on the “both sides” point today off the cuff. Yesterday’s statement almost amounted to an apology for Saturday’s comments, and you know how Trump feels about apologies. Today he un-apologized.
The Antifa approach to monuments and historical sites associated with the Confederacy bears some similarity to Chairman Mao’s “Cultural Revolution” in Communist China in the 1960’s and dare I say the Islamic State’s approach to historical sites in Iraq and Syria more recently.
The Beatles sang “Revolution” back in the 1960’s saying “if you go around carrying pictures of Chairman Mao, you ain’t gonna make it with anyone anyhow”.
Now people who act like Chairman Mao did are the toast of the town.
Krauthammer wrote speeches for Walter Mondale in the attempt to defeat Reagan in 1984.
Don’t know why so many conservatives have been fooled by this liberal for so many years.
I bet AllahPunduit was in ecstasy typing this out.
It was pulled without reason several days before.
The ACLU of all people sued and got the permit reinstated.
Kraut’s next original thought will be his first.
Charles, for a guy supposed to be so smart, how are you still not getting this? Do you really understand why Trump won, and may win again despite all the backstabbing?
What permit? What was it for?
LOL
Romney is a an ‘effing ahole.
He thinks Antifa opposes racism and bigotry?
I can’t believe I voted for this moron Romney, and I can’t believe Trump interviewed him for the position of Secretary of State.
disgrace?.. because he didn’t crawl???
Look.. by now, we know the elite and the people don’t think alike or talk alike... or ask for forgiveness for living on this earth. The Trump haters have to get some backbone and man up!!
Permit was reinstated at the time of the march.
Due to violence between non-permitted Antifa and permitted “UTR”, the permitted march was broken up soon after it started.
If blm offed romney, no one would care.
You know what’s a moral disgrace? krauthammer and Romney claiming Antifa violence and BLM cop shooting is perfectly acceptable.
This is war gentlemen. They’ll commence the coup against Trump by the ends of the week - the GOPe is complicit with the DNC at this point - probably and knowably.
Too much plain talk eh?
The locals tried to pull the permit, but a federal court overturned them. The marchers had a federal court order authorizing them to march.
Krauthammer used to write speeches for Mondale, so his asinine behavior should surprise no one. He’s a damn democrat.
Krauthammer needs to retire.
What I read was they pulled the permit 15 minutes before the scheduled time but a judge reversed it. Of course, it was too late, then the police funneled the permit holders into their attackers.
Correct me if I am wrong.
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