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The extraordinary juxtaposition on Tuesday night -- open lawbreaking combined with an invented narrative in which Biden and Dems are the corrupt party -- showed a GOP that has unshakable confidence in its ability to act with utter impunity.
New piece: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/08/26/gop-convention-just-ripped-mask-off-trumps-corruption-lies/
New piece: https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/08/26/gop-convention-just-ripped-mask-off-trumps-corruption-lies/
Dear media:
If your conclusion is that voters won't care about serial lawbreaking and corruption, then perhaps that's grounds for introspection, not for validating the idea that this is a savvy and realistic calculation on the perpetrators' part.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/08/26/gop-convention-just-ripped-mask-off-trumps-corruption-lies/
If your conclusion is that voters won't care about serial lawbreaking and corruption, then perhaps that's grounds for introspection, not for validating the idea that this is a savvy and realistic calculation on the perpetrators' part.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/08/26/gop-convention-just-ripped-mask-off-trumps-corruption-lies/
Trump is using levers of government to illicitly hold power:
* Lawbreaking at convention
* Senate Rs manufacturing fake Hunter/Ukraine probe
* Bill Barr downplaying 2016 Russian sabotage
* Intel officials muting truth about Russian meddling right now https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/08/26/gop-convention-just-ripped-mask-off-trumps-corruption-lies/
* Lawbreaking at convention
* Senate Rs manufacturing fake Hunter/Ukraine probe
* Bill Barr downplaying 2016 Russian sabotage
* Intel officials muting truth about Russian meddling right now https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/08/26/gop-convention-just-ripped-mask-off-trumps-corruption-lies/
In a sense Trump campaigned in 2016 on his own corruption: All politicians are crooked, so elect me; I'll break rules for *you.*
Media treats this as populist grandstanding.
But now we need to be clearer. Trump is trying to hold power via illicit means:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/08/26/gop-convention-just-ripped-mask-off-trumps-corruption-lies/
Media treats this as populist grandstanding.
But now we need to be clearer. Trump is trying to hold power via illicit means:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2020/08/26/gop-convention-just-ripped-mask-off-trumps-corruption-lies/
