A warning for sycophants

[saidsimplesimon]

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/opinion/if-trump-goes-down-hes-taking-everyone-with-him/ar-AAI84Ow

New York Times
If Trump Goes Down, He’s Taking Everyone With Him
October 2, 2019
Frank Bruni
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But Clinton never publicly accused his detractors of treason or floated the idea that one of them be arrested on those grounds, as Donald Trump just did with Adam Schiff.
Clinton and his defenders raised the specter of a “vast right-wing conspiracy,” to use Hillary Clinton’s infamous phrase, thus asserting that he was being persecuted for his politics, not punished for his misdeeds.

But they didn’t insist, as Trump and his defenders routinely do, that a vital part of the federal government was an evil cabal intent on undermining our democratic processes, which is Trump’s self-serving characterization of the intelligence community. Their central strategy wasn’t to ignite a full-blown crisis of confidence in the institutions of government. They weren’t serving dire notice, as Trump essentially is, that if the president goes down, he’s taking everyone and everything else with him.
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[MFGsunny]

1. a very good read - and from the same linked article :: n/t

[saidsimplesimon]

2. Thanks MFG