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But the request showed his true colors, as a politician blatantly seeking to hurt people in places where he can’t see an electoral advantage. He’s found other ways to go after the state, though.
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institutions is that he has turned the government of the United States into one of his companies: a badly managed enterprise defined by a sociopathic personality
During my time in the Trump administration, I have witnessed three primary motivations for what a passerby would call brainwashing.
Power, tribal allegiance, and fear. Trump Apologists see him as a means to personal influence and advancement. They want to be close to power. They are eager for stature they wouldn’t gain otherwise and are willing to excuse Trump’s actions to get it. Even then-candidate Trump’s most pointed critics, such as Texas governor Rick Perry, were willing to cast aside their existential warnings about the future of the country in order to snag comfortable positions in his cabinet. Perry is an actual conservative who was the longest-serving governor in his state’s history. Now he doesn’t spend too much
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When are Republicans going to stand up for the American people and defend the Constitution instead of this president and administration?
government of the United States is whatever it is because the people are whatever they are. The nature of one man, the president, is not what shapes the collective attributes of a nation. It is the other way around. Our views, our aspirations, and our morality are what define the republic and are meant to be reflected by the people we elect.
Frightening...I hate to believe this president and administration mirrors our people and their attributes!
Do we want to keep our nuclear arsenal, and our nation’s military, under the stewardship of a man who ignores intelligence briefings, who puts his self-interest ahead of the country’s needs during international engagements, who enjoys the company of foreign thugs, who our enemies think is a fool they can manipulate, who has shunned our friends, whose credibility has been shattered, and who our national security leaders no longer trust? Consider it.
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If, however, you nominate someone who campaigns on unity instead of ideological purity, you will have a sizable number of Republicans and independents ready to make common cause.
We can only hope
