Once again we join Andrew Sullivan -- America's most prominent gay Tory Catholic True Conservative libertarian public intellectual -- in his ongoing struggle to stave off his inexorable slide into "aging 1980s silent film diva" irrelevance by deploying the only four tricks that every Beltway pundit still have left in their bags.
First and most importantly, get on that ol' Both Sides Do It unicycle and ride that fucker for all it's worth!
The Appeasement of Donald Trump
...Because bending the knee to Both Siderism is the basic membership dues one has to pay to stay on good paper with the Beltway Insiders Club.
This week, in the face of Democratic appeasement and Republican complicity, Trump has upped the ante once again.
Second, recite things that are painfully obvious to everyone, but do so Very!Urgently!
The GOP will not stand in the way of strongman rule, and will, in fact, try to buttress it. Even when Trump usurped the Congress’s power of the purse by declaring a fake national emergence, 182 out of 195 Republican House members eagerly backed him, surrendering their constitutional power in favor of Trump’s diktat. Just look at that sad sack, Lindsey Graham.Because the ability to Righteously Pound the Table as if, in the matter of Donald Trump, you and you alone are Matt Hooper and literally everyone else --
-- is somehow the Mayor of There-Is-No-Shark Island and wants to feed democracy to the fishes and therefor must be Shouted!Into!Submission! is what gets you on the short-call list for Hardball or the Bill Maher Travesty.
Third, pretend that the catalog of atrocities being committed in real-time by the Republican party is somehow not a partisan issue. Do this by scavenging the opinions of politically impotent Never Trumpers who are looking for someone's couch to crash on until the catastrophe they helped unleash blows over.
More sane right-of-center voices — like that of the admirably sane Andrew Napolitano and David French — need to explain that this is not about right or left, or Democrats or Republicans, but about the preservation of our republic.Oh fuck you, Andrew. This is entirely about about right or left,. This is entirely about Democrats or Republicans. Donald Trump and the Republican party are a democracy-destroying pathogen that the Right has been openly cultivating for decades. The Left, for all its imperfections, is the cure. It doesn't get more partisan that that.
And, finally, like every other Beltway pundit, Mr. Sullivan has a laundry list of actions that everyone else needs to be taking right now!
Only a massive public insurrection against strongman rule can begin to reverse this. It’s not happening, but it needs to.You know what, Andrew? If the threat is so dire -- if the wolf really is at the door with a bazooka -- why don't you use your large public platform organize a "massive public insurrection"?
The shock and zeal and passion so many felt in 2016 needs to be...
The Congress needs to ...
They need to tell the story that...
The Democratic candidates need to be...
Do that I'll be impressed.
Hell, if you ever organize anything but self-indulgent, Both Siderist claptrap on a page, I will be positively blown away.
Behold, a Tip Jar!
2 comments:
The admirably "sane" David French??? Is Andrew actually aware that, given his druthers, French would imprison him and forcibly treat him with hormones to expunge the 'gay'??
Andrew has a mitigating circumstance to retain his beltway approval by the elusive Religious right, the imaginary Fiscal Conservative and even the Constitutional conservative.
I did not realize "Constitutional Conservative" was a belief, until I received a reply on a tax cut question , From Sen. Sasse.
Where answering my submitted question on taxes, he used a robust assortment of flowery words. Informing me he is a "Constitutional Conservative". (To become an ongoing saga between Sasse and me now).
Back to Andrew's disposition. He see's what the republican POpe Franklin Graham has publicly scorned of sin.
Pope Franklin condemns Mayor Pete of sin and demands repentance through suicide. It is the only way.
Meanwhile locally.
The moral majority State Republican party leader in Chief. Publicly scorn EX Neb. Senator and Governor, Democrat Bob Kerry of yore. Who was invited to give a commencment speech for graduates from local college.
The State GOP leader raise public hell that Mr. Kerry must be denied this invitation . Because, Because, He is not a Anti Abortion Zelaot.
(It is a seni religious college).
Kerry withdraws his ivitation saying he does not wish to cause any political disturbance to the graduates at their time of celegration. The college leaders are disappointed but cede to Kerry's withdrawal.
No one here when thinking of Mr. kerry at first thought or in general . Think Kerry/ Abortion.
So when we have embolden White supremacists and religious nuts by the GOP (including Trump/Pence.
At least here, the republican political party is now the ruling authority over religion. Who gets to be and it's laws to obey, and punishment.
God / Jesus who?
In summary, prepare you mind, heart and spirit for an out of control religious right presence in this election.
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