Subj : True Republicans
To : Aaron Thomas
From : Dale Shipp
Date : Tue Sep 08 2020 01:41 am
-=> On 09-07-20 02:02, Aaron Thomas <=-
-=> spoke to Dale Shipp about Re: The Atlantic <=-
DS> Actually McCain and Romney were the only two Repubicans who did not
DS> abandon their party in favor of Trumpism. Just compare what many other
As I have said there are many other Republicans who have abandoned
Trumpism because of his betrayal of American values. Here is one oped
by a Republican Strategist.
Editor's Note: Steve Schmidt is one of the founding members of the
Lincoln Project. He is a communications and public affairs strategist
who has worked on several Republican campaigns, including John McCain's
2008 bid for the White House, and is now a regular political contributor
to MSNBC.
On Saturday, Schmidt wrote a stinging rebuke of the president on his
Twitter feed over 11 posts. MaxNewsToday has decided to put together the
tweets and reprint them as one op-ed as a public service to the nation.
I find it necessary to reach for the language and colorful
colloquialisms of my native land, New Jersey, in order to express my
feelings about today�s event in Bedmimster.
It was a fucking travesty. Truly. An utter fucking disgrace. The
President of the United States of America stood behind the seal of his
office, framed by American flags and his private club�s membership,
slurring and raving about his victimization. His titanic self-pity was
only exceeded by his dishonesty and uncontrolled lying.
His lying was only subordinate to his staggering idiocy, ignorance,
ineptitude and incompetence. The incompetence, even after all this time,
shocks the conscience. 162,000 Americans are dead, and the economy is
shattered. So many more will die.
The evictions, foreclosures and small business closings are just
beginning. We are in the early hours of one of the greatest tragedies in
our country's history. None of it had to be, but it has happened because
Donald Trump is President. His malice, stupidity, ego and insecurity are
a lethal combination.
He has wrecked this country in less than four years. He has induced a
national nosedive, a decline that is precipitous, dangerous and
humiliating. The world is more dangerous. American soldiers are hunted
like animals by Taliban killers who are paid bounties by Russian
killers, and Trump does nothing but kowtow to Putin and advance his
agenda.
Trump has divided the country and pitted Americans against each other.
He has loosed violence against peacefully assembled U.S. citizens and
deployed militarized paramilitary forces to escalate tensions in
American cities in the name of law and order, when the real purpose and
mission is to stoke the embers of chaos and create fear.
Fear, built on a mountain of lies, is the autocrats sword and shield.
Trump stokes fear to abuse his power and press forward with his assaults
on the rule of law, our essential institutions and our national comity,
all in the name of his corruption, aggrandizement and cult of
personality.
It is a despicable hour in the life of this country. This will be ended
because it must end. We will lose the country if Trump isn�t repudiated.
Make no mistake about the intentions of a president who is openly
undermining the 231-year-old tradition of American elections. He is
undermining the legitimacy of the coming election with no regard for the
consequences to liberal democracy here and around the world.
Fascism didn�t rise in the thirties because it was strong. It rose
because democracy was weak. American democracy is weak, decayed and led
by an illiberal man who, if he could, would cancel the election, lock up
his political opponents, enrich his friends and remain in power for
life.
Trump is the greatest failure in American history. No American has
failed history�s test in a more spectacular fashion. His stoking of
racial tensions and a cold civil war in our land will live in infamy.
His disgrace will be eternal.
Dale Shipp
fido_261_1466 (at) verizon (dot) net
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