1) Scott’s answer about voters wanting a return to “normalcy” does grave injustice to the English language. The only way that Trump’s behavior could be considered “normal” is to add the qualifier “normal for Trump”. The next question that Raddatz should have asked Scott is exactly what is “normal” about Trump. It’s the sa…
1) Scott’s answer about voters wanting a return to “normalcy” does grave injustice to the English language. The only way that Trump’s behavior could be considered “normal” is to add the qualifier “normal for Trump”. The next question that Raddatz should have asked Scott is exactly what is “normal” about Trump. It’s the same argument from the Trumplicants complaining about the raid on Mar-a-Lago being “unprecedented”. Sure a raid such as that hadn’t happened before, but they conveniently forget the part that no former President had ever acted like that before.
2) Will Saletan’s point that the conservative Christian Scott is saying that there is no moral dimension to his political thinking is old news for the Evangelical community. After all, they made their peace with Trump long ago, even to the point of completely reversing their “the means justify the ends” philosophy, morphing it into “the ends justifies the means”. And let’s not forget that they credited God with getting Trump elected, yet somehow they seem to forget about 2008, 2012, and 2020. Consistent thinking is so hard (and so passé).
3) The Corn – Lowry exchange is typical of the Trumplicants. Lowry is trying to create a false equivalency between Biden and Trump because both of them did something he considers bad (there are no degrees of “badness”, only “bad” or “good”). So apparently in his mind, trying to prevent the peaceful transfer of power by (almost) inciting a riot (and, of course, we have to ignore the fact that zero of the illegal events of January 6 would have happened absent Trump’s support) is no worse than issuing an executive order (which the courts did, in fact, curtail) to forgive some student loan debt. I guess that Lowry would be surprised to find out that there are actually different degrees of murder. And there are things called misdemeanors and things called felonies.
This argument is so outrageously stupid that I can’t believe that anyone would expect us to take it seriously.
A few comments….
1) Scott’s answer about voters wanting a return to “normalcy” does grave injustice to the English language. The only way that Trump’s behavior could be considered “normal” is to add the qualifier “normal for Trump”. The next question that Raddatz should have asked Scott is exactly what is “normal” about Trump. It’s the same argument from the Trumplicants complaining about the raid on Mar-a-Lago being “unprecedented”. Sure a raid such as that hadn’t happened before, but they conveniently forget the part that no former President had ever acted like that before.
2) Will Saletan’s point that the conservative Christian Scott is saying that there is no moral dimension to his political thinking is old news for the Evangelical community. After all, they made their peace with Trump long ago, even to the point of completely reversing their “the means justify the ends” philosophy, morphing it into “the ends justifies the means”. And let’s not forget that they credited God with getting Trump elected, yet somehow they seem to forget about 2008, 2012, and 2020. Consistent thinking is so hard (and so passé).
3) The Corn – Lowry exchange is typical of the Trumplicants. Lowry is trying to create a false equivalency between Biden and Trump because both of them did something he considers bad (there are no degrees of “badness”, only “bad” or “good”). So apparently in his mind, trying to prevent the peaceful transfer of power by (almost) inciting a riot (and, of course, we have to ignore the fact that zero of the illegal events of January 6 would have happened absent Trump’s support) is no worse than issuing an executive order (which the courts did, in fact, curtail) to forgive some student loan debt. I guess that Lowry would be surprised to find out that there are actually different degrees of murder. And there are things called misdemeanors and things called felonies.
This argument is so outrageously stupid that I can’t believe that anyone would expect us to take it seriously.
They think everyone is as stupid as they and the MAGAs are.