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and yellow highlighting!1 Each named spineless dude section is detailed.
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http://www.vanityfair.com/news/2017/06/donald-trump-enablers
A Definitive Guide to the G.O.P. Insiders Enabling Donald Trump
Blame for the ongoing destruction wrought by the Trump administration will always attach to Donald Trump. But Trump cannot help himself. He is a pathogen, doing what pathogens do, and as surprised as anyone to have found himself replicating in the nations bloodstream. Equal blame will attach to a small group of experienced and seemingly rational politicians who knew exactly what Trump was like; who had cause to loathe and distrust him; who understood firsthand that he knew nothing about government and did not care to know anything; who could see clearly that he was dangerous, brutal, and corrupt; and who nonetheless decided, after occasional protests, to help him achieve and hold power. These are people who have been repeatedly belittled and mocked by Trump, who have sometimes been forced to voice their disgust at his words and actions, and whofor reasons that range from ambition and fear to denial and moral blindnessnot only have declined to stand in his way but continue to prop him up. One or more of them may ultimately decide to defy him, but nothing will absolve them of the damage already done.
I. The Opportunist Paul RYAN.
II. The Cynic McCONNELL
III. The Stooge PRIEBUS
IV. The Accomplice PENCE
V. The Institutionalist Lindsey GRAHAM
VI. The Gambler McCAIN
THE VERDICT
The Trump administration may last for months or it may last for years. There will be crises and catastrophes. A corrosion of values and spirit has already set in. The outside world pulls away. John Boehner, the Republican former Speaker of the House, now retired and fortified with tobacco and Merlot, has called Trump a disaster. Donald Trump will suffer his own grim fate in the eyes of historians, but it will come with an asterisk: he is a profoundly damaged human being with no true understanding of his capacities, his emotions, his ignorance, his job, or the fundamentals of human decency.
His enablers will get no asterisk. They will be treated with the special contempt reserved for those who acted knowingly and cravenly, with eyes wide open.
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UTUSN
(70,779 posts)KT2000
(20,601 posts)what I was able to read of it as it kept crashing on me.
These indeed are spineless sycophants.
Rhiannon12866
(206,601 posts)Thanks for posting!