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Originally Posted by ThurgreedMarshall
Agree. The fact that anyone with half a brain gives fuel to the "Trump derangement" theme is an absolute travesty. People just don't like him so they are acting irrationally when it comes to him? GTFOH. Everything he's done (and Less' ridiculous carveouts should be completely ignored) has been an outright lie, self-serving, corrupt, objectively stupid, criminal, racist, sexist, irrationally xenophobic, spiteful, lazy, and/or completely ignorant.
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Bush delegitimized his critics by calling them shrill. It's the same rhetorical strategy. What has maybe changed since then is that the media environment has gotten more polarized, and the idea that the media can act as a centrist gatekeeper between left and right is less and less credible.
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I am not arguing about who is first to be the asshole. I'm stating that this impeachment is not the product of some lower standard set by Gingrich. If ever there were an impeachment that was righteous, this is it.
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If you use Nixon as the benchmark, Trump obviously deserves to be impeached. But there don't seem to be many swing voters anymore, and even if there are, Trump specifically and Republicans generally have learned to be far more responsive to the conservative base.
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And even if it weren't--even if Trump were being subjected to an impeachment over how he chews gum--that would not be the impetus for Republicans acting like complete fucking trash and investigating bullshit and pretending to investigate made up bullshit going forward. That's who they are no matter what is happening right now.
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Trump is a symptom. Conservatism is the problem.
