Trump's tweets are damaging the Republican character

[Jacque67 7,328]

The result is a festival of blatant and grotesque hypocrisy. Republicans are right now in the process of demanding that every Democrat and every progressive celebrity of any consequence denounce Harvey Weinstein. Yet when Donald Trump faced serial accusations of sexual assault after being caught on tape bragging that he liked to grope women, many of these same members of the Republican base were furious at those conservatives who expressed alarm. When serial sexual-harassment allegations claimed the careers of Bill O’Reilly and Roger Ailes, many of these same members of the Republican base accused the media of “taking scalps.” On a vast scale, members of the Republican base are defending behavior from Trump that would shock and appall them if it came from a Democratic president. On a vast scale, members of the Republican base are defending behavior from Trump that would shock and appall them if it came from a Democratic president. There is of course always a measure of hypocrisy in politics — partisanship can at least partially blind us all. But the scale here beggars belief. Republicans never would tolerate a Democratic president’s firing an FBI director who was investigating the president’s close aides and then misleading the American people about the reason for that firing. They would never tolerate a Democratic president’s specifically calling for unconstitutional reprisals against his political enemies. They would look at similar chaos and confusion in a Democratic White House and fear a catastrophe. Even worse, Republicans are — to borrow my friend Greg Lukianoff’s excellent phrase — “unlearning liberty.” For example, for many years conservatives focused on ways to protect free speech, an essential liberty under attack from intolerant campus leftists and a larger progressive establishment that labeled dissent as “phobic” or bigoted. Now? Republicans defend Trump’s demands for terminations and economic boycotts against football players who engage in speech he doesn’t like. “Well, it’s not technically illegal,” they say, knowing full well the chilling effect such language will have and knowing full well that they would be howling in anger if President Obama had ever expressed a similar desire to squelch, say, Tim Tebow’s prayers. They know full well that they condemn progressive corporations who use their economic power to squelch dissent. Republicans even defend direct calls for unconstitutional reprisals against members of the press.

Read more at: http://www.nationalreview.com/article/452618/donald-trump-twitter-damaging-republican-character

[Jacque67 7,328]

Word.

[Ebunoluwa 6,136]

Exactly !
I can't stand the hypocrisy and double standards, the excuses to fit their narratives. If it was wrong for the dems then it is wrong for the pubs plain and

simple. What the heck is wrong with this world ! Wrong is wrong and two wrongs don't make a right. I don't make excuses of Clinton and his Monica fiasco
and all the people and their Trump defensiveness is just asinine.
 

[JimandChristy 1,689]

Looks like once the Republicans get their tax cut they're going to cut ties with Trump and impeach.

[eieio 1,594]

Only one problem with this story. The accusations against Trump were made up or just talk. Everybody knew the democrats were paying women to make up stories. Is it any surprise that they all crawled back into their holes after the election?

 

The women speaking out against the good friend of hillarys have a lot more credibility.