Sam Harris had a character-revealing moment. He's not the only one. When people do that, believe them. They are telling you exactly who they are, the living embodiment of the "principals over principles" mentality that will justify anything so long as their team wins. More recently, we've learned that the FBI lied to Zuckerberg's face about the laptop story, knowing full well that it was true but also knowing full well that Zuck and FB would be useful idiots in suppressing the story.
Whatever one thinks of Trump, is life today better or worse than it was under him? The numbers - which don't have party affiliations or care about feelings - could not be more clear in providing an answer. The most ironic thing re: Trump and the pearl-clutching he sometimes inspires is that he's always been this way. He has always been loud-mouthed New Yorker with relatively thin skin. He also showed the GOP that it was not necessary to prostrate itself at the feet of the media and be forever apologetic about its mere existence. Yes, he sometimes went overboard and again, that should have surprised no one.
While people were appalled at mean tweets, what did crime look like? How about the border and the recent profile in hypocrisy from the Martha's Vineyard crowd? Inflation maybe? And recall that no foreign leader was attacking a neighbor for any reason, least of all the leader who supposedly had Trump's number. For all the accusations of Trump being fascist, he never delivered a speech declaring hate toward half the country, he never had the DoJ treat parents like terrorists, he never colluded with Big Tech to silence speech, and he did not weaponize federal agencies against political opponents.
I have no idea if he'll run again. My preference would be DeSantis, though the same people who cannot get past their obsession with Trump will call the Florida governor the same names. They did it to people like Romney, McCain, Bush, and Dole, too, because it's who they are. The party of oligarchs and plutocrats that cannot handle it when someone plays by the left's rules. That is Trump's small sin; his bigger one is not being part of the DC grifter's club, though multiple members of Congress had no problem going to him hat in hand to beg for money.
Sam Harris had a character-revealing moment. He's not the only one. When people do that, believe them. They are telling you exactly who they are, the living embodiment of the "principals over principles" mentality that will justify anything so long as their team wins. More recently, we've learned that the FBI lied to Zuckerberg's face about the laptop story, knowing full well that it was true but also knowing full well that Zuck and FB would be useful idiots in suppressing the story.
Whatever one thinks of Trump, is life today better or worse than it was under him? The numbers - which don't have party affiliations or care about feelings - could not be more clear in providing an answer. The most ironic thing re: Trump and the pearl-clutching he sometimes inspires is that he's always been this way. He has always been loud-mouthed New Yorker with relatively thin skin. He also showed the GOP that it was not necessary to prostrate itself at the feet of the media and be forever apologetic about its mere existence. Yes, he sometimes went overboard and again, that should have surprised no one.
While people were appalled at mean tweets, what did crime look like? How about the border and the recent profile in hypocrisy from the Martha's Vineyard crowd? Inflation maybe? And recall that no foreign leader was attacking a neighbor for any reason, least of all the leader who supposedly had Trump's number. For all the accusations of Trump being fascist, he never delivered a speech declaring hate toward half the country, he never had the DoJ treat parents like terrorists, he never colluded with Big Tech to silence speech, and he did not weaponize federal agencies against political opponents.
I have no idea if he'll run again. My preference would be DeSantis, though the same people who cannot get past their obsession with Trump will call the Florida governor the same names. They did it to people like Romney, McCain, Bush, and Dole, too, because it's who they are. The party of oligarchs and plutocrats that cannot handle it when someone plays by the left's rules. That is Trump's small sin; his bigger one is not being part of the DC grifter's club, though multiple members of Congress had no problem going to him hat in hand to beg for money.