GOPs moral rot the problem, not Jr.
By Jennifer Rubin
July 14 at 12:55 PM
... Lets dispense with the Democrats are just as bad defense. First, I dont much care; we collectively face a party in charge of virtually the entire federal government and the vast majority of statehouses and governorships. Its that partys inner moral rot that must concern us for now. Second, its simply not true, and saying so reveals the origin of the problem a woe is me sense of victimhood that grossly exaggerates the oppositions ills and in turn justifies its own egregious political judgments and rhetoric. If the GOP had not become unhinged about the Clintons, would it have rationalized Trump as the lesser of two evils? ...
... for decades now, demonization of gays, immigrants, Democrats, the media, feminists, etc. has been the animating spirit behind much of the right. It has distorted its assessment of reality, giving us anti-immigrant hysteria, promulgating disrespect for the law (how many respectable conservatives suggested disregarding the Supreme Courts decision on gay marriage?), elevating Fox News hosts blatantly false propaganda as the counterweight to liberal media bias and preventing serious policy debate. For seven years, the party vilified Obamacare without an accurate assessment of its faults and feasible alternative plans. Obama bad or Clinton bad became the only credo leaving the party, as Brooks said of the Trump clan, with no attachment to any external moral truth or ethical code and no coherent policies for governing ...
... A party that has to deny climate change and insist illegal immigrants are creating a crime wave because that is what conservatives must believe, since liberals do not is a party that will deny Trumps complicity in gross misconduct. Its a party as unfit to govern as Trump is unfit to occupy the White House. Its not by accident that Trump chose to inhabit the party that has defined itself in opposition to reality and to any external moral truth or ethical code.
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