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<blockquote data-quote="BrownArmy" data-source="post: 3391703" data-attributes="member: 18225"><p><a href="https://www.nytimes.com/2018/03/03/opinion/sunday/trumps-white-house.html?action=click&pgtype=Homepage&clickSource=story-heading&module=opinion-c-col-left-region&region=opinion-c-col-left-region&WT.nav=opinion-c-col-left-region" target="_blank"><span style="font-size: 22px"><strong>Trump’s White House Is a Black Hole</strong></span></a></p><p></p><p>..."<em>The president and his acolytes are championing conspiracy theories and a sweeping, uncalibrated, all-out assault on our institutions. There is reckless talk by Republicans about “secret societies,” “silent coups” and the “deep state.” Trump supporters have engaged in a desperate effort to discredit the Mueller investigation.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>The president dehumanizes and belittles his opponents and (at best half-jokingly) accuses Democrats of being “treasonous” for not applauding him during his State of the Union speech. Rather than nourishing a sense of gratitude, he stokes grievances. And he tells lie after lie after lie after lie.</em></p><p><em></em></p><p> <em></em></p><p><em>One White House aide, <a href="https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/white-house-reels-as-fbi-director-contradicts-official-claims-about-alleged-abuser/2018/02/13/f010f256-10d9-11e8-9570-29c9830535e5_story.html?utm_term=.6e9adfc5b18f" target="_blank">asked by The Washington Post</a> whether John Kelly, the president’s chief of staff, could have been more truthful or transparent about the dismissal of the staff secretary Rob Porter, answered honestly: “In this White House, it’s simply not in our DNA. Truthful and transparent is great, but we don’t even have a coherent strategy to obfuscate.” Could there be a more emblematic statement of the low point we have reached?</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>All of this is antithetical to conservatism. On balance, Republicans are seeking to conserve very little; instead they have become the courtiers and court pastors of a man who delights in tearing things down. It calls to mind the line spoken by Alfred in “The Dark Knight”: “<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=efHCdKb5UWc" target="_blank">Some men just want to watch the world burn</a>.”</em></p><p><em></em></p><p><em>Yet most Republicans are silent, their moral and civic reflexes seemingly dead...</em>"</p></blockquote><p></p>
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