ident, but they also say it’s fine to have a daughter and son-in-law duo running vast swaths of foreign and domestic policy while also making a fortune from their business interests around the world. Enemies are sinful or decadent when they lie or cheat on their wives, but who are you to judge Comrade Trump?
There’s no halfway defensible ideological, intellectual or moral standard that Trump doesn’t violate, often routinely. A cult of personality that replies “Trump’s right” or “his enemies are worse” before the question is even asked is the only place to hide.
A doctrine of infallibility is the only defense of this deeply fallible man.
We have arrived at that moment in our history which our Founding Fathers most feared writes the AZ Blue Meanie at Blog for Arizona.
I have said before and I cannot emphasize enough that the Party of Trump is a criminal enterprise led by a third-rate mafia “Don” Trump. They are all accomplices, co-conspirators and accessories to his criminality and corruption. There is not a patriot among them. They put fealty to their “Dear Leader” above all else, including loyalty to their country and our national security, and their oaths of office to defend the Constitution.
[Making everyone dirty] is Trump’s insurance policy against impeachment. He has an authoritarian political party that puts party loyalty and GOP tribalism above all else: loyalty to country, their oaths of office to defend the Constitution, and openness to conspiring with foreign adversaries to remain in power. The Party of Trump is not going to vote to impeach and remove the Trump administration for its openly admitted crimes and make House Speaker Nancy Pelosi acting president.
The Blue Meanie cites Michel Sozan (americanprogress.org): “President Trump’s solicitation of the Ukrainian president to interfere in the U.S. political process for Trump’s benefit violates the Constitution and federal law—not to mention the public trust. If they were here to see Trump’s deeply corrupt actions, the founders undoubtedly would vote to impeach him and remove him from office.”
But the Founding Fathers did not foresee for the rise of political parties, and the possibility of the complete and total corruption of one the nation’s major political parties in support of its titular leader, the president. The entire constitutional system of checks and balances designed by the Founding Fathers breaks down and fails to protect the citizenry when one of the nation’s major political parties is so thoroughly corrupted that it openly disregards the Constitution and the nations laws, and abdicates its constitutional responsibilities, all in order to defend a president of their party they know to be corrupt and openly engaging in criminal behavior, with foreign adversaries no less.
Any Republican who continues to support Donald Trump at this point is a coconspirator at worst, and an accessory who is aiding and abetting the Trump administration’s crimes at best. They are all equally culpable at law. They are condoning and normalizing criminality in the pursuit of maintaining power. They are turning the United States into a criminally corrupt kleptocracy just as surely as Vladimir Putin’s Russia.