It's too late to disavow Trump - By Richard Cohen
The useful idiots are falling by the wayside. First came a few corporate big shots, and then some more, and then many, many more. Princes of Wall Street, richer and more important than any chief executive, also left, and then Julius Krein, a conservative intellectual and digital pamphleteer, retracted his support of President Trump in a New York Times op-ed and inevitably was hailed as a political Rip Van Winkle who had just woken up. He and the others slept too long.
They have done their damage. Trump is in the White House, fulminating on Twitter, messing up foreign policy, mistaking critics for enemies, refusing to immediately and unequivocally condemn neo-Nazis, racists and other assorted goons — and, in general, failing to provide the nation with a scintilla of moral leadership. This will last until it can’t any longer. There is only so much chaos a nation can stand.
Meanwhile, the parts of the American corporate and political leadership who slummed with Trump and think that the quick shower of a repudiation statement will wipe them clean ought to think again. They are obliged to consider how they ever supported a person whose racism was apparent in his rabid conviction that Barack Obama had not been born in the United States and whose posse always contained so-called white nationalists. The surprise of Charlottesville is not that it happened, but that it took so long. Our president is neo-racist.
It was also apparent that Trump lies with almost every breath. And yet some of the powerful people who knew the dark truth about Trump — who would not do business with him, who would not lend him money and who, most importantly, would not raise a child to be like him — supported him for president. Some, such as Carl Icahn and Wilbur Ross (who is now commerce secretary), got in early, while others hung back until Trump won the GOP nomination. Having panicked at the prospect of Hillary Clinton winning the presidency, they embraced Trump.
Anti-Hillaryism diseased their minds. It enabled them to hold her responsible for the deaths of Americans in Benghazi, Libya, and to obsess over her missing emails. She was a lousy candidate, sure, but her most serious criminal act was to frequently flash an insincere smile.
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I know I'm casting a very wide net here, but I still believe it to be generally true. The hate for Hillary Clinton - and it still exists - has been going on for 30 years and it was started by Rush Limbaugh. All the hate-radio talk shows have been repeating it and it spread to Fox News. People have been brainwashed and they can't see it or understand it.
I'm not saying that Hillary never made any mistakes or missteps, because she certainly has. Bill Clinton was a good President for the most part and Hillary was an awesome First Lady. As Senator and Secretary of State she did an amazing job but we never heard about that. The crazy hateful conservatives in this country have never shut up with their Hillary-hate and it has infected the rest of this country.
Now that Trump is obviously yet another example of a weak, worthless Republican President - once again they have nobody to admire or champion. So their only solution is to destroy our heroes on the left. Namely Hillary Clinton and Barack Obama.
Who will the bullies pick on next?
