The trolls are really out today with nasty insults. Jason Miller was fine with our interview. Trump is under fierce media criticism on a dozen fronts and that's what we explored with a conservative and liberal panel
@BulwarkOnline Our inability to come to terms, as a country, with the lawlessness, murderous incompetence, and repeated betrayal of norms that stained the GWB administration is a significant factor in the rise of Trump and Trumpism. Seems to be a subject none of you Bullwarkers ever bring up.
Here’s the full context of the Liz Cheney clip that’s going around.
Conservatives will say Trump was talking about Liz Cheney as a war hawk, and he was.
But conservatives would never, in a million years, accept this as anything other than a threat if a Democrat said the same thing.
It would be clipped and stitched all over as an example of “radical leftist ideology” rooted in violence.
And by the way, people do mention the hypocrisy with war hawks by saying things like, “Let’s send her off to war then,” or, “She’s calling for war, but her own children aren’t going to enlist.”
“I don't blame him for sticking with his daughter. But his daughter's a very dumb individual, very dumb. She's a radical warhawk. Let's put her with a rifle standing there with nine barrels shooting at her. Okay? Let’s see how she feels about it. You know, when the guns are trained on her face. You know they're all warhawks when they're sitting in Washington in a nice building saying, oh gee, let's send 10,000 troops right into the mouth of the enemy. But she's a stupid person. I'd have meetings with a lot of people and she always wanted to go to war with people.”
@joshtpm similarly, how many rapes does it take for one to be branded a deviant like Jeffrey Epstein was. Two? Five? 50? We know they are good with one.
You should stop using this guy for personal political gain and get him the help he so obviously needs. Including the inevitable PTSD from this event. It's real and should be addressed.
“FEMA has advised all federal responders Rutherford County, NC, to stand down and evacuate the county immediately. The message stated that National Guard troops 'had come across x2 trucks of armed militia saying there were out hunting FEMA.’” https://t.co/HBCbYMdmRI
Trump was taking notes during the venal and lawless GWB administration, the Brooks Bros riot that preceded it, and McConnell's denial to Obama of his SCOTUS judge. Our failure to deal with these and other abnormal GOP actions in the past is in large part to blame for Trumpism.