Yesterday Mike Johnson made an comment that many others have made, that Trump is, to paraphrase, "the most persecuted President in history."
It's nonsense, of course. Barack Obama got no free ride, particularly from Trump. Neither did George W. Bush. Clinton? I think Newt Gingrich gave as good as he could. Rush Limbaugh made his life miserable. I don't think any President gets a free ride and Trump was treated exactly the same as every other President. Thing is, he thrives on being a victim and his supporters back him up on it.
When is someone going to push back on this? Donald Trump yelled into any microphone he could find for at least a year questioning Barack Obama's citizenship.
How about Gingrich in "America at Risk: The Owls of Ga'Hoole":
"What if [Obama] is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin to piece together [his actions]?” Gingrich asks. “That is the most accurate, predictive model for his behavior.”
“This is a person who is fundamentally out of touch with how the world works, who happened to have played a wonderful con, as a result of which he is now president,” Gingrich tells us.
“I think he worked very hard at being a person who is normal, reasonable, moderate, bipartisan, transparent, accommodating — none of which was true,” Gingrich continues. “In the Alinksy tradition, he was being the person he needed to be in order to achieve the position he needed to achieve . . . He was authentically dishonest.”
Is that what Mike Johnson considers the kid glove treatment? Really?
Republicans elevated a sociopathic scofflaw to the presidency and formed a crazy cult around him.
Then, whenever anyone notes that he said something noxious or lunatic, or did something cruel, or broke the law, all of MAGA world screeches that he's being PERSECUTED.
it's rubbish. He has been protected and coddled by powerful people and groups. "Respectable" conservatives insisted from the start that special moral allowances must be made for him.
So he gets away with things that most other people would not. He is glorified and empowered BECAUSE he flouts rules and lacks moral scruples. But he performatively hugged the flag, which some dullards imagine is deeply meaningful.
Yesterday Mike Johnson made an comment that many others have made, that Trump is, to paraphrase, "the most persecuted President in history."
It's nonsense, of course. Barack Obama got no free ride, particularly from Trump. Neither did George W. Bush. Clinton? I think Newt Gingrich gave as good as he could. Rush Limbaugh made his life miserable. I don't think any President gets a free ride and Trump was treated exactly the same as every other President. Thing is, he thrives on being a victim and his supporters back him up on it.
When is someone going to push back on this? Donald Trump yelled into any microphone he could find for at least a year questioning Barack Obama's citizenship.
How about Gingrich in "America at Risk: The Owls of Ga'Hoole":
"What if [Obama] is so outside our comprehension, that only if you understand Kenyan, anti-colonial behavior, can you begin to piece together [his actions]?” Gingrich asks. “That is the most accurate, predictive model for his behavior.”
“This is a person who is fundamentally out of touch with how the world works, who happened to have played a wonderful con, as a result of which he is now president,” Gingrich tells us.
“I think he worked very hard at being a person who is normal, reasonable, moderate, bipartisan, transparent, accommodating — none of which was true,” Gingrich continues. “In the Alinksy tradition, he was being the person he needed to be in order to achieve the position he needed to achieve . . . He was authentically dishonest.”
Is that what Mike Johnson considers the kid glove treatment? Really?
Republicans elevated a sociopathic scofflaw to the presidency and formed a crazy cult around him.
Then, whenever anyone notes that he said something noxious or lunatic, or did something cruel, or broke the law, all of MAGA world screeches that he's being PERSECUTED.
it's rubbish. He has been protected and coddled by powerful people and groups. "Respectable" conservatives insisted from the start that special moral allowances must be made for him.
So he gets away with things that most other people would not. He is glorified and empowered BECAUSE he flouts rules and lacks moral scruples. But he performatively hugged the flag, which some dullards imagine is deeply meaningful.