my guess is this article would not have been published if it weren’t for the imminent release of intel documents. it’s lengthy and TOTALLY confused, but well worth a read:
19 Sept: Guardian: ‘Trumpwashing’: the danger of turning the Republican resistance into liberal heroes
As figures once reviled by the left are hailed for their opposition to Trump, critics warn against forgetting the past
by David Smith in Washington
Not so long ago, the idea of liberals hankering nostalgically for Bush, hanging on Kissinger’s words or cheering assertions of American exceptionalism would have been unthinkable. Likewise the idea of rooting for the rightwing attorney general Jeff Sessions, the former FBI director and registered Republican Robert Mueller, and other mandarins of the so-called “deep state”. Yet old certainties have been shaken, roles reversed and loyalties scrambled by Trump’s profoundly unorthodox presidency.
According to Dan Kovalik, a human rights and labour lawyer and adjunct law professor at the University of Pittsburgh, the liberal left was already in ideological confusion when Trump turbo-charged the process. “In short, liberals have decided that ‘the enemy of my enemy is my friend’, especially when ‘my enemy’ is Donald J Trump,” he wrote via email.
“And so, bizarrely, liberals have decided that the CIA and FBI – despite their well-known history of suppressing civil liberties and civil rights in this country and abroad – are now noble institutions which should be believed and respected. This is because the CIA and FBI have largely taken an oppositional stance towards Trump.”...
Liberals’ default scepticism about the FBI, CIA and NSA [National Security Agency] has also taken a hit...
https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2018/sep/19/trumpwashing-republican-resistance-trump-dangers-history
one last thing - where are all the FakeNewsMSM pieces on the Dems trying to stop the declassification of documents, etc??? NYT? WaPo? Networks?
feeling nervous, are they?
The problem is that all of them, every last one of them, not named Trump is our enemy.
They have to go.
What they are doing is utterly unacceptable.
Examples have to be made. Many examples. Examples that won’t be forgotten any time soon.
They think they own us.
They do not.