Shame on Us for Getting Used to Trump

[Demovictory9]

Shame on Us for Getting Used to Trump
If the impeachment hearing wasn’t shocking, it’s a sign of how far we’ve fallen.


https://www.nytimes.com/2019/11/14/opinion/trump-impeachment-hearings.html


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After the impeachment hearing, some in the media appeared to yawn. Two Reuters reporters pronounced the proceedings “consequential, but dull,” writing, “Unlike the best reality TV shows — not to mention the Trump presidency itself — fireworks and explosive moments were scarce.” An NBC News analysis concluded that the hearing “felt more like the dress rehearsal for a serious one-act play than the opening night of a hit Broadway musical.”

It’s certainly true that there were few new revelations on Wednesday, since transcripts of the witnesses’ closed-door testimony had already been released. But if the facts at hand have not shaken the country to its core, that’s not the fault of Democrats on the Intelligence Committee. The responsibility lies with us all for letting this lawless, kleptocratic presidency become normalized.


Like addicts to the world’s most unpleasant drug, our political class seems to require ever-greater jolts to feel anything at all. A month ago, some Republican senators were briefly roused from their submissive torpor by Trump’s cavalier decision to greenlight a Turkish attack on America’s Kurdish allies in Syria. Lindsey Graham, usually an obsequious Trump lackey, said that if the president didn’t change course, he was prepared to become Trump’s “worst nightmare.”

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But it is a monumental mistake to allow people who will accept anything from Trump to set our standards for acceptable public behavior. By any normal metric, this week’s news — the impeachment hearing, the Stone trial, the mortifying Erdogan meeting, not to mention new revelations of the senior Trump adviser Stephen Miller’s white nationalism — was sensational and historic. The fact that Republicans are insisting otherwise is a sign of the depths of our political crisis. Each one of us must choose whether to treat their mulish disloyalty to their fellow citizens as a given, worthy only of shrugs, or as a shocking affront that demands redoubled political action.

[irisblue]

1. Gee Michelle Goldberg, are you freaking serious

From above... "Either Americans will reclaim their birthright and become a liberal democracy again, or not. It’s up to all of us to decide how much we care about being entertained in the process."

The NYT & the Americian 'access above all media/journalists'
have no responsibility for the normalization of the hard right wing authoritian trumpian Republicans bread and circus atmosphere? What codswollop she is pushing here

[SWBTATTReg]

2. Not very many people share her opinion...she's obviously trying to say things aren't as bad...

as the democratically controlled impeachment hearings are making it, in American minds. I say BS. She's must have swallowed a potion of witch's brew which is causing her to have false visions or hallucinations etc.

[Funtatlaguy]

3. When this country accepted Fox News it was over.

The fact that all real journalists didn’t rise up and lead a revolt against the carriage of an open proposition outlet on any cable or satellite system posing as news did us in.
We are now a nation of half dumbed down, know nothing, cultist, zombies.

It may be too late to save our democratic republic.
This impeachment process and its reaction from the public will tell where we stand.
November 2020 might be the nail in our coffin.