“In an extraordinary stretch of just over two weeks,” Naftali Bendavid reports in The Washington Post, “three former presidents have taken to the public stage to sound the alarm against the current occupant of the White House, despite the tradition that former presidents generally refrain from publicly criticizing their successors.”
It turns out that “Obama, Biden and Clinton did not explicitly name Trump,” admits the Post’s senior national political correspondent, though he argues “their message was unmistakable.”
Wait. The three former opposition party presidents bravely took on President Donald Trump but not one has enough courage to mention him by name?
Bad communication skills — no wonder why Trump is president.
“The three Democrats said, as much by their presence as their words,” writes Bendavid, “that these are unusual times for American democracy, that norms are being disregarded and extraordinary measures are required.”
Today’s Washington journalist!
More a psychic diviner of the deep inner meaning of a former president’s mere presence than mere observer.
Bendavid failed, however, to detail any specifics from the former commanders in chief as to the “extraordinary measures” that are somehow now “required.”
“Think of [former presidents] as a sort of advisory council to the people of the United States,” he quotes a historian from Columbia University. “And when the advisory council sounds the alarm, the people should listen.”
Wake up, people! Your former leaders have spoken: Trump = bad.
Thus we witness the national press corps continuing to miss the point. The people are not moved by these ex-presidents — at least not in their direction.
From political heavy-weights to legacy media newsmen, the more the DC establishment attacks President Trump, the more a sizable group of voters like him.
Trump is validated as the outsider.
The more popular outsider.
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The idea of Trump as any kind of “outsider” is pretty bizarre. The only recent president who’s more of an establishment insider from birth than him — simply by virtue of being somewhat older money — is Bush.
You certainly can make the case that Trump was highly connected to the political establishment before running for President.
On the other hand, he’d held no elected office in government before 2017, sacrificed the connections that he had to run, chose to posture as a populist opponent of the establishment when running for his first term, and was consigned genuinely to outsider status thereafter.
Paul keeps censoring me. So much for him being against censorship!
Setting aside your use of skatologic insults, your comments aren’t censored here.
My comments often idle in the moderation queue for hours, because this ‘blog isn’t actively administrated around the clock. Likewise for your comments.
Sometimes WordPress.com (who provide hosting) loses one of my comments, and I presume that I’m not the only victim. But that’s glitchy software, not deliberate censorship.
The democrat party is dying, and these three has-beens think talking about Trump (indirectly) will help. HA HA HA
Why don’t you write about Trump and his breaking the law? Violating the Constitution is against the law. Ignoring 9 – 0 ruling by Supreme Court. Not following due process, etc.
You must be really afraid or you support the horrific things he is doing. I won’t hold my breath!
Pam, Paul does write about such things as Trump’s disregard of due process. Unlike you, he’s not a shameless partisan.
One itty bitty article with an audience of10! Fantastic.
Pam, I’m not going to cobble-together a list with links to all of Paul’s articles in which he has criticized Trump in particular, or Republicans more generally.
If you believe that Paul’s entries reach an audience of just ten people, then your fulminating about the content of those entries is absurd.
Trump has never gone a day in his life when he didn’t lie!