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In reply to the discussion: Sometimes I feel pragmatism here at DU is on short-supply. (Re: Comey) [View all]moriah
(8,311 posts)As I said, right now he's the enemy of our enemy. He sure as shit ain't our friend.
But, for example, I've seen people criticizing him for making decisions based on polls -- which is also what Trump is doing. But his decision was apparently more about transparency for the person everyone assumed would win. It could have looked damn bad for Clinton, made her election seem illegitimate, if the intelligence agencies suppressed information about the likely winner who was also of the incumbent administration's party.
You have to admit, had Hillary won, we'd probably still be mad at him but not enough to warrant him getting fired. Especially if that was his explanation to her for his actions. I think she'd rather have had a solid win under her belt rather than being vulnerable, as Trump has made himself, to allegations of a coverup after a questionable win.
I still would rather have her in office even if it meant "Buttery Mails" became even more prevalent on TV than it is now, but would she? The woman Trump wants people to think she is would actively engage in cover-ups (sooo much projection) and influence people, do anything to win, etc. The woman I think she is, the nominee I voted for? I believe she would rather have lost than have a win with any taint of illegitimacy to it.
And, take the referral of the Cohen issues to the SDNY. It doesn't really matter if Trump had an affair a decade ago. What matters is he wouldn't own it, and got it "fixed" just before the election. They're really trying to keep the Russia/foreign money transfers issues/obstruction separate from sexual allegations, and having the SDNY vs Mueller do it helps that. It's not the sex that makes this a concerning issue -- even if they didn't, he didn't have to pay her to silence her, others had already accused him of much worse than holding out a job possibility to get consensual sex one time --- but the blatant coverup. Yet I've see posts here suggesting Stormy faked her description of the person who she says threatened her, and sharing RW sources to do it.
I find so much schadenfreude in watching the Republicans destroy themselves I feel no need to hold long-term grudges against Comey right now. He doesn't have a job, which is what we wanted when we blamed him for the election being lost. He's getting to peddle a book, which I may read when I find it in a library, and the book is making Drumph lose his shit.
We're going to see anti-Trump conservatives who certainly aren't our friends. The strategic thing would be to promote the most critical articles that lack heavy tea party/evangelical content amongst people who recognize and trust those Conservative names. But not to buy into any idea that these people are our friends unless they actually decide to align with core Democratic values -- the big tent that knows if small groups who have similar interests in justice and equality work together, their voices can be heard in a way they can't alone.