Posted on 09/04/2019 12:39:39 PM PDT by CedarDave
WASHINGTON — Like whisperers in a tempest, conservative-minded officials across the breadth of Donald Trump’s government are letting it be known what they think of him, and some of it isn’t pretty.
But they are speaking oh so softly, in a kind of code, to a country that may only hear shouting.
Jim Mattis is just the latest in a string of leading lights from the conservative establishment to throw shade at Trump. As with others — the chief justice, a special counsel, various Republican lawmakers who hope to have a political future — the ex-Pentagon chief’s words are subtle, filtered through notions of duty, decorum, deference to history, the greater good.
Crack the code and you can sometimes see deep discomfort with Trump, the contours of a searing repudiation. In the view of many institutionalists of the right as well as the left, he is bulldozing values that America holds dear.
Yet the negativity is couched in words of moderation and caution.
(Excerpt) Read more at abqjournal.com ...
These 3 writers are running around in mental circles. Think how much the Kennedy Bros HATED LBJ. Remember how Truman was just loathed by nearly everyone but history says he was and is one of the best we have had.
Think of the Nixon years and all the back stabbing intrique that went on to get him to resign.
This article is largely BS. What’s going on now is more or less what always goes on in Washington and National Politics. Again, it’s called BACK STABBING (by your enemies and friends) and the lead example of that is how bad Congress and other prominent politicos stabbed George Washington in the back. These 3 writers need to go find something else to do...……….most car washes need help!
I used my decoder ring.
“Progressives are American Traitors and must be destroyed, wiped out, before they destroy the Republic”
or something like that
How didya know?! ;>))
Democrats are evil.
Wow,some have a very strange definition of Conservative. To be fair,most of the true Conservatives have left early on.
Yes, for all the good these “conservatives” have done to preserve our Republic, they should be ashamed of themselves, as President Trump has done far more for this Republic than have they.
Sure we are. /eyeroll
Thank you.
Whenever I want to know what a Marine says, I go to a commie weakling like Calvin Woodward for the correct interpretation. /S/
Thanks CedarDave. Partisan Media Shills update.
Well, I ‘cracked the code’ on Calvin Woodward - what he's ‘really saying’ is he hates President Trump and will make up anything to damage President Trump... and that he has zero journalistic ethics...
Globalists ( or non patriots if you will) hate tariffs. It’s all about the tariffs.
Hey Calvin I will code talk again on November 3, 2020. Stay tuned.
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