{"id":5753,"date":"2017-02-21T11:46:39","date_gmt":"2017-02-21T11:46:39","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/02\/21\/nevertrumpers-and-others-losing-their-minds-and-morals-over-trump\/"},"modified":"2017-02-21T11:46:39","modified_gmt":"2017-02-21T11:46:39","slug":"nevertrumpers-and-others-losing-their-minds-and-morals-over-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/2017\/02\/21\/nevertrumpers-and-others-losing-their-minds-and-morals-over-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"NeverTrumpers and Others Losing their Minds and Morals Over Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"

Victor Davis Hanson<\/a>:<\/span><\/p>\n

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Former Weekly Standard<\/em> editor in chief Bill Kristol suggested in a tweet that if he faced a choice (and under what surreal circumstances would that happen?) between the constitutionally, democratically elected president and career government officials\u2019 efforts to thwart or remove him, he would come down on the side of the revolutionary, anti-democratic \u201cdeep state\u201d: \u201cObviously strongly prefer normal democratic and constitutional politics. But if it comes to it<\/em> [emphasis added], prefer the deep state to the Trump state.\u201d No doubt some readers interpreted that as a call to side with anti-constitutional forces against an elected U.S. president.<\/span><\/p>\n

[. . .]<\/span><\/p>\n

Fake news proliferates. House minority leader Nancy Pelosi and Representative Elijah Cummings recently attacked departing national-security advisor Michael Flynn by reading a supposed Flynn tweet that was a pure invention. Nor did Trump, as reported, have a serious plan to mobilize \u201c100,000\u201d National Guard troops to enforce deportations.<\/span><\/p>\n

Other false stories claimed that Trump had pondered invading Mexico, that his lawyer had gone to Prague to meet with the Russians, and that he had removed from the Oval Office a bust of Martin Luther King Jr. \u2014 sure proof of Trump\u2019s racism. Journalists \u2014 including even \u201cfact-checker\u201d Glenn Kessler of the Washington Post <\/em>\u2014 reposted fake news reports that Trump\u2019s father had run a campaign for the New York mayorship during which he\u2019d aired racist TV ads.<\/span><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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Victor Davis Hanson: Former Weekly Standard editor in chief Bill Kristol suggested in a tweet that if he faced a choice (and under what surreal circumstances would that happen?) between the constitutionally, democratically elected president and career government officials\u2019 efforts to thwart or remove him, he would come down on the side of the revolutionary, … Continue reading “NeverTrumpers and Others Losing their Minds and Morals Over Trump”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[180],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5753","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-decline-of-the-west"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5753","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5753"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5753\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5753"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5753"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maverickphilosopher.blog\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5753"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}