Posted on 08/24/2018 4:10:43 PM PDT by 2ndDivisionVet
Michael Gerson, one of the most eloquent and principled critics of Donald Trump, insists that we are at June 1973, the moment when John Dean’s testimony broke the dam that a year later swept Richard Nixon off into disgrace. Others agree: This is an inflection point. And yet an equally well-informed friend insists, “I no longer believe in political inflection points and neither should you.” Who knows? But even if we do not recognize the turning points in the moment, we can anticipate what the end will feel like when it does arrive.
To be sure, Trump could hang on until the 2020 election. It is even possible, if considerably less likely, that he could be reelected and march off into a glitzy retirement at Trump properties in Florida and New Jersey, his retreat from public life punctuated only by bursts of increasingly senile bombast. But it does seem more likely than it once was that he will go down in disgrace.
The mood of that moment was given to us in an episode now faded into the remote, pre-Paul Manafort-conviction, pre-Michael Cohen-guilty-plea world, when Omarosa Manigault-Newman, the flashy villainess of more than one Trump reality-television show, turned on her benefactor with juicy and not entirely incredible revelations. A puerile justice this: the secret taper of others taped, the once upright Marine general caught trying to bully the only black woman close to the president by locking her in the Situation Room while threatening her with legal consequences to force her resignation. Her betrayal of her benefactor proved a tawdry but revealing final episode in this particular show....
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If he were a tyrant, the Never-Trumpers would be buried in a lime-filled pit.
Go on. I like where you’re going with this.
I recall a little over a year ago, I went to see my liberal minded parents and they were going on about how they watched on 20/20 the night before a feature that compared Trump with Nixon and all of the supposed similarities and parallels. At that time, it was just a few months into Trump’s time as President and now it is just over a year and these silly, ridiculous comparisons with him and Nixon continue. It is such a pathetic and also transparent thing on the media’s part, big time.
The author is mixed up. The tyrant is not Trump. The tyrant is the media.
>>How This Will End: Sooner or later, tyrants are always abandoned by their followers.
I don’t know. The Progressive Left sure does have a long-term love affair with every tyrant they ever saw—as long as they aren’t nationalist.
Synagouge of Satan.
No they aren’t. Guy needs a history lesson.
Before or after being sent to the mines of Numidia?
Obama’s been abandoned?
If he were a tyrant this shitbag would be shot.
North Korea is on it’s third tyrant. The Soviet Union had six or seven. Middle Eastern, South American and African countries have had hundreds.
Compared to Obama , Nixon was a saint. These burned out liberals need a new boogie man
The tyrants are Muller and Rosenstein.
These people professing to be Trump’s friends are strange....even weird......
Do all your “friends” walk around with concealed taping devices?
And they mostly died of natural causes. And when it’s not it’s because some other tyrant got the drop on them.
They forget that there were only 3 news sources back then ABC, NBC, and CBS.
...and the media are part of both the Shadow Government and the Deep State. They are the true tyrants who subverted a free election and have worked tirelessly to overthrow that same free election.
Au contraire!
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