Does character really (or ever) count for the RW? All that Trump sucking up to Rupert Murdoch seems not be be helping 45*, as the Wall Street Journal returns to their Pecker-gate news-trove of “catch and kill” stories by the National Enquirer.
Justice is now coming ‘round midnight from Frumious Bandersnatch to Felonious Trump...
- President Donald Trump was involved in "nearly every step" of hush-money agreements with multiple women who claimed they had sexual affairs before he became president, according to The Wall Street Journal.
- The newspaper, citing dozens of interviews and documents, also reports that Trump may have violated federal campaign-finance laws through his participation in the deals.
- Trump has denied knowing about a $130,000 payment made to Stormy Daniels, an adult film star and director who alleges she had sex with Trump in 2006.
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Bridge and Tunnel Trump is now in a moment where we need to bet the number of his tricks.
A trump is a playing card which is elevated above its usual rank in trick-taking games
Jabberwocky is a card game of the trick-taking variety, played by 3 to 5 players with a standard deck of cards and pencil and paper for scoring. Its object is to bet the number of tricks one is estimating to make and to fulfill this bet (which scores a point).
Much like Ben Shapiro coming to the defense of Jim Acosta, there will be a reckoning for the RW, as Bret Stephens dithered a year ago upon his support for 45* because character counts?
But then there’s the rest of the Jewish right, this columnist among them. Last year we were given a choice between moral judgment and political opportunity.
Would we vote for a man we knew to be a casual bigot because his bigotries aligned, in some sense, with our political views? Or did we know enough about bigotry to understand that, just as the hatred that starts with Jews never ends with them, the hatred that starts with others lands all too frequently on us?
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Here was the argument of many of Trump’s Jewish supporters: He’d rip up the awful Iran deal. He wasn’t afraid to call out the Islamofascists by name. He “got” Israel and wasn’t going to abide the State Department’s failed pieties about the peace process or the location of the United States Embassy. He’d rebuild the military and restore the respect America had lost under Barack Obama. He’d surround himself with good advisers. And his unpredictability was an asset in the face of our adversaries.
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If conservatism is supposed to teach anything, it’s that, even in politics, character counts above everything. Trump’s Jewish supporters, like so many on the right, ignored the lesson. After Charlottesville, they’ve discovered too late that the price of that support will fall, as it so often has, disproportionately on them.
It’s not going to get better.
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That taste for underage females is one feature of frumious Trump:
'Twas brillig, and the slithy toves
Did gyre and gimble in the wabe:
All mimsy were the borogoves,
And the mome raths outgrabe.
'Beware the Jabberwock, my son!
The jaws that bite, the claws that catch!
Beware the Jubjub bird, and shun
The frumious Bandersnatch!'
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