https://amgreatness.com/2019/10/21/media...ous-fraud/
Times gets raked over the coals for its "editorial."
"...I always wonder exactly who is the intended audience for such high-and-mighty imprecations. They appear to be addressed to “the GOP,” to “conservatives” (those who still have a “conscience,” i.e., those who have mutated into progressives), to “Republicans.” Here is your last chance, such columns seem to shout, we’re warning you. You are tearing the republic apart (you know they’re upset when they start talking about “the Republic”: I think they’re trying to remind you of Rome circa 44 B.C.).
“The problem with politicians who abuse power isn’t that they don’t get results. It’s that the results come at a high cost to the Republic [right you are, Cicero!]—and to the reputations of those who lack the courage or wisdom to resist.” O tempora, o mores. “The courage or wisdom to resist”—and who, exactly, would be the exemplars of those virtues?
But, really, such columns cannot seriously be intended for conservatives. Any real conservative would simply snort contemptuously should he encounter such out-of-touch hysteria. No, I suspect that such pieces are really meant to buck up the progressive troops, much as a besieged general on the brink of losing the war puts on a brave face and urges his men to fight on. “Rally round, boys. Forget that the Bad Orange Man is surfing on the best economy in decades, that unemployment is at historic lows, especially for the people we’ve been exploiting for—er, especially for our loyal minority constituency, that real wages are rising, that our military is stronger even as the country is extricating itself from costly foreign entanglements: forget all that, put it out of your mind. Remember that Donald Trump tweets mean things about people whom we like....""
"...These attempts to enlist foreign interference in American electoral democracy are an assault not only on our system of government but also on the integrity of the Republican Party. Republicans need to emulate the moral clarity of Margaret Chase Smith and recognize that they have a particular responsibility to condemn the president’s behavior and to reject his tactics.
These paragraphs are worthy of a Mary McCarthy Prize. McCarthy once said that everything Stalinist screenwriter Lillian Hellman wrote was a lie, including “and” and “the.” So it is here...."
