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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsMARK SANFORD, whose district Trump is visiting today, lays waste to SCROTUS
. . .He lays waste to the president of his own party.
Most Republicans in Washington are biting their tongues when it comes to Donald Trump, fearful that any candid criticisms of the new president could invite a backlash from their constituents or, potentially worse, provoke retribution from the commander in chief himself.
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All this gives Sanford a unique sense of liberation to speak his mind about a president whose substance and style he considers a danger to democracy. Im a dead man walking, he tells me, smiling. If youve already been dead, you dont fear it as much. Ive been dead politically.
His digs at Trump cover the spectrum. The president, Sanford says, has fanned the flames of intolerance. He has repeatedly misled the public, most recently about the national murder rate and the medias coverage of terrorist attacks. He showed a lack of humility by using the National Prayer Breakfast to ridicule Arnold Schwarzeneggers ratings on The Celebrity Apprentice. Most worrisome, Sanford says, Trump is unprepared for the presidency.
And all of a sudden a guy comes along where facts dont matter? Sanford asks aloud. Its somewhat befuddling. Its the undoing of that which you base a large part of your life on.
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I believe in a war of ideas ... and I tell the staff all the time: Look, were in the business of crafting and refining our arguments that are hopefully based on the truth, he adds. Truth matters. Not hyperbole, not wild suggestion, but actual truth.
Most Republicans in Washington are biting their tongues when it comes to Donald Trump, fearful that any candid criticisms of the new president could invite a backlash from their constituents or, potentially worse, provoke retribution from the commander in chief himself.
...
All this gives Sanford a unique sense of liberation to speak his mind about a president whose substance and style he considers a danger to democracy. Im a dead man walking, he tells me, smiling. If youve already been dead, you dont fear it as much. Ive been dead politically.
His digs at Trump cover the spectrum. The president, Sanford says, has fanned the flames of intolerance. He has repeatedly misled the public, most recently about the national murder rate and the medias coverage of terrorist attacks. He showed a lack of humility by using the National Prayer Breakfast to ridicule Arnold Schwarzeneggers ratings on The Celebrity Apprentice. Most worrisome, Sanford says, Trump is unprepared for the presidency.
And all of a sudden a guy comes along where facts dont matter? Sanford asks aloud. Its somewhat befuddling. Its the undoing of that which you base a large part of your life on.
. . .
I believe in a war of ideas ... and I tell the staff all the time: Look, were in the business of crafting and refining our arguments that are hopefully based on the truth, he adds. Truth matters. Not hyperbole, not wild suggestion, but actual truth.
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2017/02/mark-sanford-profile-214791
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MARK SANFORD, whose district Trump is visiting today, lays waste to SCROTUS (Original Post)
CousinIT
Feb 2017
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50 Shades Of Blue
(9,999 posts)1. Ha! It takes one to know one!!!
Kolesar
(31,182 posts)2. Doesn't he get it? Trump has the nitro that fires the racism that makes his party win
I wonder what America would be like if there was no RW media to circulate stories of Mexicans and blacks shooting, robbing, drugging, lazing...
LaydeeBug
(10,291 posts)3. Let's see if he screams, "You lie!!!" at the SOTU. nt