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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsFrank RICH, re: the someday aftermath of SHITLER's cult. (long; lots of history)
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http://nymag.com/intelligencer/2020/01/what-will-happen-to-trumps-republican-collaborators.html
By Frank Rich
.... ... Moral gravity may well reassert its pull, too, with time. Rather than being the end of American history as we know it, the Trump presidency may prove merely a notorious chapter in that history. Heedless lapdogs like Kennedy, Devin Nunes, and Lindsey Graham are acting now as if there is no tomorrow, but tomorrow will come eventually, whatever happens in the near future, and Judgment Day could arrive sooner than they think. That judgment will be rendered by an ever-more demographically diverse America unlikely to be magnanimous toward cynical politicians who prioritized pandering to Trumps dwindling all-white base over the common good.
All cults come to an end, often abruptly, and Trumps Republican Party is nothing if not a cult. While cult leaders are generally incapable of remorse whether they be totalitarian rulers, sexual Svengalis, or the self-declared messiahs of crackpot religions their followers almost always pay a human and reputational price once the leader is toppled. ....
Whether these enablers joined his administration in earnest, or aided and abetted it from elite perches in politics, Congress, the media, or the private sector, they will be remembered for cheering on a leader whose record in government (thus far) includes splitting up immigrant families and incarcerating their children in cages; encouraging a spike in racist, xenophobic, and anti-Semitic vigilantes; leveraging American power to promote ethnic cleansing abroad and punish political opponents at home; actively inciting climate change and environmental wreckage; and surrendering Americas national security to an international rogues gallery of despots.
That selective short list doesnt take into account any new White House felonies still to come, any future repercussions here and abroad of Trumps actions to date, or any previous foul deeds that have so far eluded public exposure. ...Trumps collaborators, our Vichy Republicans, will own all of it whether they were active participants in the wrongdoing like Jared Kushner, Stephen Miller, Kirstjen Nielsen, Mike Pompeo, and William Barr, or the so-called adults in the room who stood idly by rather than sound public alarms for the good of the Republic (e.g., Gary Cohn, John Kelly, Rex Tillerson), or those elite allies beyond the White House gates who pretended not to notice administration criminality and moral atrocities in exchange for favors like tax cuts and judicial appointments (from Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan to Franklin Graham and Jerry Falwell Jr.). ....
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smirkymonkey
(63,221 posts)Thank you!
Brilliant, what a read!
Afromania
(2,769 posts)This will stick to Republican hides for generations. Every new discovery will reopen the wounds for those of us living thorough this. It may last so long that grand and great grands and even a few great, great grands will hear about the Republican menace first hand. Those that don't will be able to see every lie, EVERY obsfucation, EVERY broken spine in real time historical record.
coti
(4,612 posts)A bit of a read but some nice history in there.
PufPuf23
(8,810 posts)Smart and perceptive man.
Poiuyt
(18,129 posts)lunatica
(53,410 posts)The only way to really overcome the effects of the Trumpism cult disease that seems to have infected our country and the world is to find the antidote and apply it. And to use preventative measures to create an environment that doesnt allow the festering of ignorance and hate to grow and take over again. This will never be done if we choose to restore some idealized past because the past was prologue to Trumpism. It wasnt created in a vacuum.
What we must do in order to free ourselves from our past mistakes is to learn from them and apply our newly acquired knowledge to create something that addresses all the issues that brought us Trumpism. Blind ignorance of our actions will always be fertile ground for our lowest impulses.