Posted on 12/29/2017 10:30:27 PM PST by Oshkalaboomboom
NBC’s Joe Scarborough on Thursday is predicting that 2018 will be the “most consequential political year of our lives.”
In a Washington Post op-ed, the “Morning Joe” host slams President Trump for his “anti-democratic” actions in 2017 and warns that a "storm is gathering" next year.
Scarborough writes that Trump's “low points” included his endorsement of accused sexual predator Roy Moore for an Alabama Senate seat and his statement that there was violence “on both sides” at a white supremacist rally in Charlottesville, Va.
“Others would surely consider the president’s malignant idiocy in foreign affairs to be the most damning legacy of his first year,” Scarborough writes. “World leaders continue to watch dumbstruck as the United States retreats from organizations that were created following the allies’ victory over Hitler. Those same alliances that Trump now undermines with reckless tweets and discarded treaties carried the United States to victory in the Cold War.”
Scarborough invokes former U.K. Prime Minister Winston Churchill, whose book “The Gathering Storm” warns that “isolationist conceptions” can follow even stable political periods.
Scarborough writes that Churchill’s warnings will be “more relevant to 2018 than at any time since it was written in the years after World War II.”
“While Trump’s eroding of U.S. prestige across the globe is disturbing, it is his administration’s undermining of democratic values that poses an even greater threat to our Constitution and country,” he writes.
“Borrowing again from Churchill, America’s constitutional norms tremble in the balance as Trump unleashes furious attacks on First Amendment protections, independent counsels and law enforcement officers who refuse to be bullied,” Scarborough continues.
“While the framers of the Constitution foresaw the possibility of a tyrannical president, they never let their imaginations be darkened by the possibility of a compliant Congress.”
Scarborough, a former GOP lawmaker, has been a consistently tough critic of Trump, and formally left the Republican Party earlier this year.
“...Trump now undermines with reckless tweets and discarded treaties that carried the United States to victory in the Cold War.”
Hey Joe! Are you talking about the UN ran Peacekeeping Operation in Korea? Boy that really carried the U.S. to a glorious victory there with minimal losses and forever solved a major world problem.
Moron.
He’s punani whipped and sees ratings from the left and better party invites
He’s no thinker
Joe’s interns better head for the hills, it sounds like he’s about to lose it completely.
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Better yet, is there an intern named, “Storm”?
Moron.
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Right on.
That is one tiny mouth, Joe.
Why are “world leaders” always given the high ground when criticizing the right? Blank them and their inferior countries.
How does one ‘wake-up dead’ ?
Did some googling about Lori Klausutis, the intern found dead in Scarborough’s office. Very mysterious circumstances including the autopsy by a twice disbarred medical examiner. Either Klausutis was a marathon runner or she had a record of heart trouble. Was cause of death due to a fractured skull from striking a desk? Did she pass out first? The sites I read concluded the autopsy was hushed up, deleted, or went missing.
Anyway, Scarborough is trash & so is his main squeeze. F’em.
“Scarborough pens ominous op-ed: ‘A storm is gathering’ in 2018”
You mean the aftermath of your wedding to Mika??
Joe’s banjo is strung a little too tight.
Scarborough is a ton of bull. We are coming off a president who allowed ISIS to be created, which murdered hundreds of thousands of innocent lives, foisted policies that destroyed the middle east, put up bogus red lines that were spit back in his face, and paid Iran billions to fund terrorism around the world while pulling back our enforcement efforts against their terrorism and drug dealing. Obama had a UN ambassador, Samantha Power, who actually equated the United States with Nazi Germany. If anything the world was far less safe under Obama then under Trump. We don’t need a leader going around the world and apologizing for our history. Or putting Cuba on the UN Human Rights commission.
Scarborough, now like a typical leftist, leaves out continents of information in his screeds. They are worthless.
What a dork
Ole Joe has murderous hatred running through his veins. (a female intern did die in his office). He’s joined the evil spirit of the communists (globalists, demonrats, antifa).
They talk so brazen about their right to attack the office of the presidency. Attacking Trump, Republicans, whites, white men, Christians and the Deplorables every day is not enough for them.
The libtards are the last so-called ppl who should ever want a “storm” to occur!! But, as always, they are too stupid to really know the results.
Yep. They had to spend a ton of money and have the GOPe run interference to win a squeaker.
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