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Posted on 11/30/2017 1:13:36 PM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
Great nations and proud democracies fall when their systems become so corrupted that the decay is not even noticed — or the rot is written off as a normal part of politics.
President Trump has created exactly such a crisis. He has not done it alone. The corrosion of norms and values began long before he propelled the nation past the edge, and his own party is broadly complicit in enabling his attacks on truth, decency and democratic values.
In fact, Republicans are taking full advantage of the bedlam Trump leaves in his wake. They are using a twisted process to push through a profoundly flawed tax bill with scant scrutiny.
But here’s what also needs to be recognized: At the moment, political power in our elected branches (and, in effect, in the Supreme Court) is held by Republicans and conservatives. They are using Trump to push through outlandish policies on taxes and health care. They are lauding Trump’s executive orders that scuttle regulations safeguarding consumers, workers and the environment. They are ecstatic about his filling the judiciary with his, and their, allies. Progressives cannot be asked to pretend this isn’t happening. We’re a long way from a “truce.”
It is an unfortunate fact that the corruption Trump exemplifies has seeped deeply into the Republican Party and substantial segments of the conservative movement. The burden is on the responsible right to dismantle the permission structures that are allowing Trump to wreck our democracy, despoil our values, and endanger our standing in the world. Otherwise, the people will have to do it themselves by voting his Republican enablers out of office.
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“E. J. Dionne is an Establishment laughingstock...”
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And a sissy-Nancy boy as well.
Always keeps a gerbil in his pocket in case he gets lucky at the gay bars!
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We must all challenge Dionne’s enablers!
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I rarely listen to Rush anymore but was able to get his show in my truck yesterday. He did a bit about Cnn and how they act.
Just like children when they do not get their way and have a tizzy tantrum.
This is EJ and the rest of them act.
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That's the heaviest load of BS I've read in a loooong time.
Here, allow me to fix that for you:
His own party is broadly complicit in enabling his attacks on our lies, indecency and RAT values.
Swamp creature who does not like the swamp being drained.
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I watched Dionne in a debate a few weeks ago with Newt...
The man has a terminal case of TDS...
He was almost frothing at the mouth with hatred...
What ever he writes must be considered written by who is insane...
Sorry schmuck but this won’t work to get the heat off your degenerate friends.
Really? How about CNN/ABC/NBC/CBS/WaPo/NYT/etc challenging Trump each and every day?
So....in other words, you smug, indignant lefties, have nothing on Trump but interminable butt hurt.
Sissies. Talk to us when you have an actual case against him.
Go lick a frozen railroad track, E.J.
Why does every liberal emasculated man want to look like Harry Potter?
“The corrosion of norms and “values” began long before he propelled the nation past the edge, and his own party is broadly complicit in enabling his attacks on truth, decency and democratic “values.””
“You keep using that word. I do not think it means what you think it means.” - Inigo Montoya
Translation:
"I'm EJ Dionne, a smug, oleaginous soyboy of an "opinion journalist" who works at Jeff Bezos' blog, and while I can't specify any real "corruption" that Trump is guilty of, he says things, especially on Twitter, that really hurt my feels, and I sure wish that someone in the GOPe would make him stop. Did I mention that I'm a crybaby and that I've messed my undies again?"
He has an annoying speech impediment. When he says S, he doesn’t close his teeth, and makes an approximation of an S with his tongue and top teeth. A speech therapist could name it.
He’s also a pro-abortion katholyk, so he’s constantly on his moral high horse.
Recently listened to Sam Harris debating Scott Adams. Harris has TDS. Trump has every flaw, vice, and perversion ever invented. He’s stupid, narcissistic, etc. He’s a “child in a man’s body.”
These people get off on projecting all the poison in their souls onto Republicans.
lol
I always thought E.J. Dionne was a lady. I guess he’s just a bitch.
It is an unfortunate fact that the corruption Trump exemplifies has seeped deeply into the Republican Party and substantial segments of the conservative movement. The burden is on the responsible right to dismantle the permission structures that are allowing Trump to wreck our democracy, despoil our values, and endanger our standing in the world. Otherwise, the people will have to do it themselves by voting his Republican enablers out of office.
Can you say PROJECTION?
President Trump has been in office less than a year.
The Democrats and their friends in the media, academia and entertainment has created the situation our nation is in at the moment. To blame President Trump for the mess is like blaming the fireman for trying to save your home from burning instead of you trying to deep fry your turkey in the living room!
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