For John, BLUF: The campaign of Mr Donald J Trump was attacked with suggestions that he was not willing to play by the rules, when it was the other side not playing by the rules. Now we have attacks saying that President Trump won't play by the rules. Nothing to see here; just move along.
From The New Yorker, by Staff Writer Sue Halpern, 4 June 2020.
Here is a select paragraph:
We have now crossed the threshold where we must think about the unthinkable: what happens if the November election is subverted. For the past three and a half years, we’ve watched the Trump Administration, along with its enablers in Congress and in the courts, ignore or decimate democratic norms. Since January 20, 2017, we’ve seen this play out in ways big and small—the Muslim ban, the children in cages, the demonization of the press as “fake news,” to name just a few. Each outrage has undermined a basic tenet of our democracy: the American government will not discriminate based on religion, asylum seekers will be granted court hearings, and government officials will uphold and respect the freedom of the press. If we shook our collective head each time there was a new evisceration of a democratic principle, it was always with the understanding that, after four years of cruelty and kleptocracy, the American people would go to the polls and vote Donald Trump and his collaborators out of office. Even those who expected the Trump campaign to flood the zone with disinformation and find new ways to cheat, and its candidate to lie, most likely believed that if enough people voted, none of that would matter.Do you think she means like in the election in 2016, where Candidate Trump won, notwithstanding the shenanigans of the Democrats?
From my point of view this is fear mongering, plain and simple. That said, I am sure Ms Halpern is since in her beliefs. And that means reconciliation is not going to be easy in 2021. Especially if Nancy the Ripper is re-elected.
Hat tip to the InstaPundit.
Regards — Cliff
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