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Why Aren't the Former POTUSs Speaking Out Yet? [1]
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Date: 2025-03-09
The Guardian's David smith posed a rather important question today — ”What will it take for a former president to speak out against Trump? The silence from former occupants of the Oval Office has been deafening as the incumbent cuts a destructive path:”
Despite Trump delivering a dark and dystopian view of what he hoped to ‘accomplish’ in his second term via a totally unhinged rant full of ever more grotesque lies, and thinly camouflaged as an ‘address to Congress last Tuesday, in which he called his predecessor the “worst president in American history” as he’s done so many times before — once again Joe Biden remained mute and Obama refused to respond. Ditto for Bill Clinton and George W Bush:
Six weeks into a Trump second term that has shattered democratic norms and ruptured diplomatic alliances, it remains unclear what – if anything – might prompt the former presidents to speak out. Larry Sabato, director of the Center for Politics at the University of Virginia, said: “Let’s look only at Clinton and Obama: it’s almost as though they’ve washed their hands of it. “I’ve been calling them Pontius and Pilate,” he said, referring to the Roman governor who allowed Jesus to be crucified. “You can understand why because when you challenge Trump, he goes after you and never lets up. It’s hell every single day, multiple times a day.” ... “It’s unpleasant. Trump unleashes this army of assholes and we’ve all experienced them on Twitter and in other ways. I get it. But I think they have an obligation to do more.”
Seriously?! They’re supposedly afraid of the MAGA troll army on social media??
David Litt, an author and former Obama speechwriter, said: “There’s the question of, is this protocol or is this patience. Protocol is pretty clearly out the window at this point, including Trump spending a good chunk of his address to Congress bashing Joe Biden. That is just not done and yet it’s done now. ... The death of George HW Bush in 2018 left his son, George W Bush, as the only living Republican president apart from Trump himself, raising the question of when Bush could join Clinton, Obama and Biden in a powerfully symbolic show of bipartisanship. Litt added: “You get one moment when that has the greatest impact so you want to pick that moment carefully. Trump going further in selling out our allies and also forging a new alliance with Putin and Russia to me sounds like the kind of thing that might cross a line where a bipartisan group of former presidents would say this isn’t right.”
Might cross a line? I'ld say it's way past the point they need to break the glass and pull the effing alarm!
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