The Trump Presidency Nein: Leistung, Korruption und Lugen

How donny most likely got busted

Now he has to lie that the call was spied on

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The media is actually running the conspiracy because both sides

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From the Hannity is just like Maddow files...

.@MattWhitaker46 I hope you’re ready to get sued for defamation for claiming falsely that the whistleblower tried to leak the information to the Washington Post. https://t.co/0xckfGBpaE

— Bradley P. Moss (@BradMossEsq) September 21, 2019

 

I'd add Lyz Lenz - she is not conservative but comes from the heart of Trumpistan. She basically broke up with her Evangelical Church and Trumpy husband at once after Nov 2016 and wrote a book about it.

Also neo-lib Frum has written some good stuff (including pre-trump) about how the GOP got on the wrong side of the US public on healthcare.

 

I think ETTD currently remains the seminal work on the fundamental self-destruction of movement conservatism - although it is only a side narrative of the book

I hope a proper historian is planning to delve into all this.

As also mentioned by Frum, the tea party (old wealth white people) essentially flowed into the rise of paranoid/cray politicians like Bachman and later Trump. Perhaps inspired by the rise of conspiracy theory as politics that arose during the Obama years (remember Glenn Beck?)

Gate keepers like Matt Schapp invited the cray into heart of the party because Trump at CPAC got the ratings. We fast reached the point where conservatism could no longer claim to be a policy based, reality based force in US politics.

Wilson goes into all this but without much detail.

A similar thing has happened int the UK where the Tories are being eaten from the inside by the populist virus. I think the difference there is you have former PMs, Chancellors etc opposing, whereas in the US, everyone just fell into line.

 

Mexican congressman climbs U.S. border fence to illustrate that Trump's wall is 'totally absurd' 😂😂😂 https://t.co/8X5ZvDIen3

— Jon Cooper (@joncoopertweets) September 21, 2019

 

Yeah - maybe we can rely on the oral histories at starvation cove?



But seriously it is quite interesting, and I think a companion piece would be the way the Tories under Cameron & May ended up huffing on nationalism - and inviting that crap deep into the party

 

So many small men.

 

I like the episode they did thinking about how they responded to either the Individual One election or 9/11, I forget which - I think it was the former. It was a good introspective by them and I like how they clearly acknowledged each other's positions and differences, and how they address the stories they do.

I like Bob a bit more, even though he does tend to get a bit conspiratorial.

 

A few comments from the past few days and reading here:

1 - Who the hell is Rich Lowrey?
2 - I am surprised nobody (particularly in the media) has brought up Individual One's defense is that he has many calls with world leaders. FFS, none of them have been flagged like the one being talked about, so it must have been much worse than the others.
3 - And IIRC, somebody reported that there were 4 calls. Has that number been rescinded? disputed?
4 - The Republicans being who they are is a problem in itself. They want to live as if it is the early 1950s, at least socially, and are making it an effort to be that way. And I'm not talking just about those governing, but about rank and file party members.

 

The establishment were never going to save us

Pelosi, Mattis, Mueller etc etc - all failed to stand tall

From my book "The View From Flyover Country" written in 2017. God help those who are just realizing this now. https://t.co/tzV7Vov6Hr pic.twitter.com/ggphHTzXly

— Sarah Kendzior (@sarahkendzior) September 22, 2019

 

Tapper wonders aloud about people's kids being influence peddlers

This is perhaps not the best messaging strategy that the administration is rolling out here. Why is it ok for the president's children to have international business dealings but not the vice president's son? The secretary won't answer that. https://t.co/wqhg1y8tvw

— Shane Harris (@shaneharris) September 22, 2019

 

Huh?