Hell Freezes Over? Brooks NYT Column "Morality and Michael Cohen"

[NRaleighLiberal]

Wednesday's testimony and the crisis of American conscience

https://www.nytimes.com/2019/02/28/opinion/michael-cohen-testimony.html?action=click&module=Opinion&pgtype=Homepage#commentsContainer

(yes, I've already written a pretty scathing reaction to it - not published yet - asking why he continues to be a republican if he truly feels this way)

cherry picking a few notable paragraphs...

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"Getting arrested seems to have been a good education for Cohen. He now realizes that Trump will not provide him with the sustenance he needs. I believe that Cohen basically told the truth in his testimony on Wednesday, but I don’t believe that he is a changed man.:

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"Cohen has left the Thugs for Trump club and passed that baton to certain House Republicans. I would have loved to have been in the strategy session when the House Republicans decided to be incurious about Trump’s sins and crimes but to rip the skin off Cohen.

Normal people have moral sentiments. Normal people are repulsed when the president of their own nation lies, cheats, practices bigotry, allegedly pays off porn star mistresses."

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"This is how moral corrosion happens. Supporting Trump requires daily acts of moral distancing, a process that means that after a few months you are tolerant of any corruption. You are morally numb to everything. You end up where Representative Jim Jordan blandly ended up Wednesday, in referring to the hush-money scheme: “I think it’s news we knew about.”f


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read it if you can get through the paywall - it is interesting to see a life long repub twist himself into a pretzel trying to decide what to do next....leave the cult - or stay in it and continue to self loathe?

[Beakybird]

1. He is a real idiot who idolized Paul Ryan's "wonkery"

[mobeau69]

2. Every 7 to 10 years or so, he writes something really worth reading.

Thanks for posting.

[LAS14]

3. For a long time I've wondered if his positions at the NYT and on the Newshour as...

... "the conservative/Republican" are in danger.

[irisblue]

4. The online comments are fascinating.

[NRaleighLiberal]

5. they still haven't posted mine - they seem to post half of the ones I submit - and it often takes a

long time.

When I posted mine none had been posted yet.

[Poiuyt]

6. David Brooks has always been a "Never Trumper."

But make no mistake, he's no liberal

[NRaleighLiberal]

7. he is an apologist for his party, though. I am surprised Shields has never reached across the desk

on PBS newshour and tried to strangle him!