NYT Charles Blow on Trump "Opera of Demons" great read.

[NRaleighLiberal]

https://www.nytimes.com/2018/08/26/opinion/trump-manafort-cohen.html

Donald Trump has warped reality.

He has turned porn star Stormy Daniels into Joan of Arc.

He has brought Robert Mueller’s protectors to the defense of the horrid Jeff Sessions, who may well be a racist and is definitely a monster for conducting the policy of family separations at our southern border.

He has made foul-mouthed, bullying Michael Cohen, Trump’s “fixer,” emerge as an antihero.

He has made Senators Bob Corker and the Tea Party darling Jeff Flake appear as valiant crusaders for integrity, unafraid to put principle above party.

In this dramatic opera of demons, the lesser evils are part of the phalanx standing between us and the greater evils: Trump’s corruption, possible criminality, and definite rage, racism and cruelty.

They are also what has helped to buy time for Mueller to complete his investigation before Trump can end it.


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Trump is a man who has lived a life evading justice, using the legal system and the threat of legal action against people. For him, the justice system is a tool at the disposal of the wealthy and the ruthless, one to be used against anyone of lesser means and lesser fortitude.

In his mind, the fact that he may be implicated by the justice system is a blasphemy, a distortion of the American power structure, in which the wealthy almost always win.

As he told Fox: “I’ve always had controversy in my life and I’ve always succeeded. I’ve always won. I’ve always won.”


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This wannabe-king’s court is filled with rats and weasels more interested in their own preservation than his. Trump demands loyalty, and loyalty freely given should be honored and revered. When the dishonorable attempt to purchase it, either with money or fear, it will always prove false in the end.

No one can outrun the truth forever. Eventually, the truth always catches up. It comes out. It shines. I predict that the whole truth of Trump will shock the world, even more than it is already shocked.

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[oberliner]

1. If Stormy Daniels is Joan of Arc does that mean Michael Avenatti is God?

[Glamrock]

3. Uhhhhh no.

Definitely not. Not that I don't appreciate what he's done, but definitely not God.....or presidential material either.

[oberliner]

5. Trump turned Stormy Daniels into a martyr and Michael Avenatti into a Dem presidential candidate

[highplainsdem]

2. K&R

[2naSalit]

4. K&R

[Cha]

6. Brag away, Fraud.. The Bigger they Are the Harder they FALL

Mahalo, NRaleightLiberal

[Pepsidog]

7. Amen. Shock the world it will. He will be exposed

[dawg day]

8. We end up cheering on the lesser demons

...who tear apart the devil. Go for it, demons.

Angels are kind of useless at this point.