couple of great paragraphs

artappraiser — Sat, 27 Oct 2018 07:03:43 +0000

In reply to Inside Trump’s 2018 rallies: Cocky young men and few protesters

couple of great paragraphs beginning Adam Serwer's latest @ TheAtlantic.com

Since the beginning of his presidential campaign, Donald Trump has weaponized his insincerity and the bad faith of his supporters in order to deny his own accountability for the things he does and believes.

If critics took at face value Trump’s praise for mass deportations or internment camps, they were guilty of taking Trump too literally. If Trump praised violence against the media, or called for a foreign government to aid his campaign, his detractors were informed that the president was only kidding—when he absolutely wasn’t. Whenever Trump says or does something horrible, his defenders insist he did not actually do or say what was done or said, and then attack Trump’s critics for misrepresenting him. Yet everyone involved in the charade knows which Trump is the real Trump, his defenders most of all. It’s why they like him [....]

from Trump's Condemnations of Violence Aren’t Convincing His Supporters; The president has given the nation no reason to think his recent disavowals are sincere, Oct. 26

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