David Brooks: Republican Fausts
It's a crazy world when we agree with David Brooks, moderate Republican columnist.
https://www.nytimes.com/2017/01/31/opinion/the-republican-fausts.html?smid=tw-nytdavidbrooks&smtyp=cur&_r=0
"Many Republican members of Congress have made a Faustian bargain with Donald Trump. They don’t particularly admire him as a man, they don’t trust him as an administrator, they don’t agree with him on major issues, but they respect the grip he has on their voters, they hope he’ll sign their legislation and they certainly don’t want to be seen siding with the inflamed progressives or the hyperventilating media.
Their position was at least comprehensible: How many times in a lifetime does your party control all levers of power? When that happens you’re willing to tolerate a little Trumpian circus behavior in order to get things done.
But if the last 10 days have made anything clear, it’s this: The Republican Fausts are in an untenable position. The deal they’ve struck with the devil comes at too high a price. It really will cost them their soul.
In the first place, the Trump administration is not a Republican administration; it is an ethnic nationalist administration. Trump insulted both parties equally in his Inaugural Address. The Bannonites are utterly crushing the Republican regulars when it comes to actual policy making."
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for once I agree with David Brooks, whom I usually regard as a pompous twit. But he said this: "To say that it is amateur hour at the White House is to slander amateurs."
...Trump is not a Republican administration, but rather an "Ethnic Nationalist Administration "
you either support (and yes, by remaining silent you SUPPORT) this fascist buffoon or you don't
the people who don't call this man out need to go down with him 
