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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsGreg Sargent: Don't mince words. Trump is abetting an attack on our country.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/02/21/dont-mince-words-trump-is-abetting-an-attack-our-country/
By Greg Sargent
Opinion writer
Feb. 21, 2020 at 10:25 a.m. EST
When the Senate acquitted President Trump of the high crimes he committed against our country, Republicans and Democrats alike fell back on a convenient fiction: No, Trump has not really placed himself beyond the law and accountability entirely -- for he can always be held accountable in the next election.
Republicans adopted this fiction to obscure Trumps crimes -- that his Ukraine shakedown was all about corrupting that same election. Democrats adopted it to diffuse pressure to sustain the investigative war footing that protecting the country demands.
The news that intelligence officials warned House lawmakers that Russia is again trying to sabotage our election for Trump, and that this disclosure angered him, shatters that fiction entirely.
These revelations are already getting shrouded in euphemism. One CNN analysis insists America is blundering into another crisis of electoral legitimacy, and that the partisan divide is hampering the U.S. response to it.
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By Greg Sargent
Opinion writer
Feb. 21, 2020 at 10:25 a.m. EST
When the Senate acquitted President Trump of the high crimes he committed against our country, Republicans and Democrats alike fell back on a convenient fiction: No, Trump has not really placed himself beyond the law and accountability entirely -- for he can always be held accountable in the next election.
Republicans adopted this fiction to obscure Trumps crimes -- that his Ukraine shakedown was all about corrupting that same election. Democrats adopted it to diffuse pressure to sustain the investigative war footing that protecting the country demands.
The news that intelligence officials warned House lawmakers that Russia is again trying to sabotage our election for Trump, and that this disclosure angered him, shatters that fiction entirely.
These revelations are already getting shrouded in euphemism. One CNN analysis insists America is blundering into another crisis of electoral legitimacy, and that the partisan divide is hampering the U.S. response to it.
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Greg Sargent: Don't mince words. Trump is abetting an attack on our country. (Original Post)
Dennis Donovan
Feb 2020
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The "partisan divide" is treason versus patriotism. GOPers love Putin's gifts.
Hermit-The-Prog
Feb 2020
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lark
(23,166 posts)1. Fuck that CNN analyst, there is no both sides to this nation destroying BS.
The partisan divide is total sophistry and is sickening and a lie. There is no both sides partisanship in this, it's the repugs selling their souls to the Russians and their guy drumpf. That is ALL this is - treachery and grifting and constitutional law destroying by repugs.
Hermit-The-Prog
(33,484 posts)2. The "partisan divide" is treason versus patriotism. GOPers love Putin's gifts.
Duppers
(28,127 posts)5. Nailed it: treason versus patriotism❗
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Wounded Bear
(58,738 posts)3. The "partisan divide" is pretty simple, really...
Democrats engineered some legislation to at least slow down the Russian takeover of our elections and government.
Republicans stonewalled it.
That's the "divide."
Wounded Bear
(58,738 posts)7. Nice toon...nt
UTUSN
(70,762 posts)4. K&R