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"Praising With Faint Damns"
A column written a long time ago by (I think) Meg Greenfield about how someone who should have condemned something with the strongest possible language instead issued a mild and lackadaisical criticism. This is what Trump does with the Reichwingers and White Nationalists.
Nobody is fooled. They get the message loud and clear.