Posted on 12/31/2017 11:28:39 AM PST by upchuck
As this appalling year limps to a close, with President Trump consistently underperforming even the lowest of expectations, a note of holiday cheer: Our country’s institutions and values have, so far, proven remarkably resilient.
This outcome was not a given; complacency that it will continue would be dangerous. And yet, after nearly a year of Trump, the warnings about incipient fascism and the insidious ways strongmen acquire power feel overblown. I suspected so from the start, but I wasn’t sure — nor should we be cocky about the future.
Still, for now, there are reasons for optimism in the performance of the media, the courts and, yes, even the Republican-dominated Congress — undergirded and reinforced by the American people.
On the media: How scary it is to have a president who derides us as “the enemy of the American people.” To have a cable news network that inflames his worst instincts and recklessly flings suggestions of a “coup” by special counsel Robert S. Mueller III. To have nearly half the public, egged on by Trump’s bellowing about “fake news,” believing that reporters simply invent negative stories about the president.
(Excerpt) Read more at washingtonpost.com ...
Why read past that?
Amazing! This is one of the BEST "political" years I can remember (and that goes back to Truman!). It hardly "limped" to the finish line with the HUGE TAX OVERHAUL, good Lord, that was an AMAZING finish. Their only "holiday cheer" is that half the FBI and DOJ aren't in Jail yet!
This story from the media wasn't a report that was developed through solid investigative journalism. This information had already been turned over to the Mueller team by Donald Trump Jr., who complied with the letter of the law in doing so. The story was broken in the media because this information -- which was supposed to remain confidential while the investigation was ongoing -- was leaked to the media.
So if Ruth Marcus wants to pat herself on the back for breaking stories like this, she should also admit that these media reports during 2017 did tremendous damage to the credibility of the media, the Mueller investigation, and the entire U.S. Department of Justice. The whole facade has come off all these institutions that have been exposed as nothing more than a low-rent political apparatus.
Because know your enemy.
take a look at reply#39. I have feeling that you’ll Liberate it.
What planet to liberals live on?
> Trump consistently underperforming even the lowest of expectations >
The radical lefts biggest fear is Trump succeeding. This includes RINOs.
This is called the denial stage. Some leftist will never get beyond that stage.
Some Freepers enjoy throwing vomit all over this web site.
Excellent rebuttal.
The little I can add to your writing are brief thoughts on how the left is now running in their parallel universe to become the great protector of the “institutions of democracy” - e.g. the press, FBI, CIA, the judicial system. Of course we know that they themselves and their dignified Obama openly attacked Fox News throughout his terms in office, intervened (obstructing justice?) in the Cambridge police department’s arrest of Professor Gates, and one of the biggest displays of chutzpah ever was Obama’s attacking the US Supreme Court Justices sitting right in front of him during his 2010 State of the Union over Citizens United.
So scurrrrrrry.
I guess it is scary for the kleptocracy and their sycophants in the media.
We should all remember 2017 as the year when hwndu flags were outed from space, er, gps and accuweather
https://mobile.twitter.com/PNN_Unleashed/status/947543053132234763/photo/1
Wait till next year Ruthy, and see if your fragile ideology and ego can survive.
My guess? You crawl into the corner and assume the fetal position.
5.56mm
Ruth Marcus offers the communist perspective on the first year of the Trump Era.
LOL...that covers it
Give us Weimar problems, you are going to get Weimar solutions.
Not as scary as having a president who calls a significant portion of the electorate “deplorable”
Some Freepers enjoy throwing vomit all over this web site.
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I agree. Does the same crap from the same places that have the same opinion need to be posted over and over again.
This isn’t a news article, it’s word vomit from a deranged leftist.
These people are vile and liars and we don’t need to read every single opinion they puke out into the universe.
WHO CARES!
One persons appalling is another’s Maga. Glad to hear people like her are miserable.
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