This old logic professor couldn't help but smile when the DC Court of Appeals laid this jewel at the feet of the American people yesterday during its "benchslap" of Trump and his lawyer's "tortured" reading of the impeachment clause of the Constitution:
“It would be a striking paradox if the President, who alone is vested with the constitutional duty to take Care that the Laws be faithfully executed, were the sole officer capable of defying those laws with impunity.”
That reminded me of a truth of logic that says, "From a contradiction, anything follows." Which is to say, if you believe a contradiction - something that not only isn’t true but can’t possibly be true - then you'll believe anything because the truth doesn't matter to you anymore.
Also yesterday, Robert Harrington at the Palmer Report wrote, "The average person lives comfortably in their own echo chambers of confirmation bias, their own cozy little bubbles. It’s not because they can’t get at the truth, it’s because they don’t want to."
I can't think of a more apt description of #MAGA.
That's a whole lot of truth bombs launched at the American political psyche yesterday. May some of them land in the right "Fox holes".