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Clarifying Moment in American HistoryThere should be nothing surprising about what Donald Trump has done in his first weekbut he has underestimated the resilience of Americans and their institutions.
Kevin Lamarque / Reuters
ELIOT A. COHEN JAN 29, 2017
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We were right. And friends who urged us to tone it down, to make our peace with him, to stop saying as loudly as we could this is abnormal, to accommodate him, to show loyalty to the Republican Party, to think that he and his advisers could be tamed, were wrong. In an epic week beginning with a dark and divisive inaugural speech, extraordinary attacks on a free press, a visit to the CIA that dishonored a monument to anonymous heroes who paid the ultimate price, and now an attempt to ban selected groups of Muslims (including interpreters who served with our forces in Iraq and those with green cards, though not those from countries with Trump hotels, or from really indispensable states like Saudi Arabia), he has lived down to expectations.
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For the community of conservative thinkers and experts, and more importantly, conservative politicians, this is a testing time. Either you stand up for your principles and for what you know is decent behavior, or you go down, if not now, then years from now, as a coward or opportunist. Your reputation will never recover, nor should it
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In the end, however, he (Trump) will fail. He will fail because however shrewd his tactics are, his strategy is terribleThe New York Times, the CIA, Mexican Americans, and all the others he has attacked are not going away. With every act he makes new enemies for himself and strengthens their commitment; he has his followers, but he gains no new friends. He will fail because he cannot corrupt the courts, and because even the most timid senator sooner or later will say enough. He will fail most of all because at the end of the day most Americans, including most of those who voted for him, are decent people who have no desire to live in an American version of Tayyip Erdogans Turkey, or Viktor Orbans Hungary, or Vladimir Putins Russia.
There was nothing unanticipated in this first disturbing week of the Trump administration. It will not get better. Americans should therefore steel themselves, and hold their representatives to account. Those in a position to take a stand should do so, and those who are not should lay the groundwork for a better day. There is nothing great about the America that Trump thinks he is going to make; but in the end, it is the greatness of America that will stop him.
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2017/01/a-clarifying-moment-in-american-history/514868/
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Trump Will Fail BECAUSE, He Has UNDERESTIMATED The Resilience Of Americans & Their Institutions (Original Post)
kpete
Jan 2017
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randome
(34,845 posts)1. I don't think he's underestimated anything. He doesn't KNOW about other Americans. Period.
He is flying blind. Which is why he often descends into vulgarity and nonsense; it's the only way he can justify his incompetence.
[hr][font color="blue"][center]A 90% chance of rain means the same as a 10% chance:
It might rain and it might not.[/center][/font][hr]
malaise
(269,022 posts)2. I've been saying this for weeks
A lunatic and his goons cannot destroy the American socio-economic and political system
Orsino
(37,428 posts)3. Trump will fail, as did W, because he's lazy, thin-skinned and ignorant.
That doesn't mean he won't be reelected, ot that fascism isn't here to stay.
meow2u3
(24,764 posts)4. Damn right, this is abnormal
It seems as if the GOP sold their collective souls to the Devil, and this is what happens:
To friends still thinking of serving as political appointees in this administration, beware: When you sell your soul to the Devil, he prefers to collect his purchase on the installment plan.
tRump never realized, nor will he ever realize, that the American people won't stand for being told what to do, unlike Russians, who have traditionally been accustomed to being ruled, first by czars, then by Communists, now by a right-wing dictator.
manicraven
(901 posts)5. Yes! We told the king where to stuff it, and we fought against the fascists.
We're not going to sit back while the GOP and the Trump Chumps hand over our republic to an insane, Putin-loving, racist moron who thinks he "alone can fix things" and that he has "a great brain."