“Mr. Trump has shown a character unworthy of the responsibilities of the presidency. He has demonstrated an utter lack of respect for the Constitution, the rule of law and the American people,” the Times wrote in the editorial.
“Instead of a cogent vision for the country’s future, Mr. Trump is animated by a thirst for political power: to use the levers of government to advance his interests, satisfy his impulses and exact retribution against those who he thinks have wronged him,” the editorial continued. “He is, quite simply, unfit to lead.”
The scathing rebuke of Trump comes less than a week before the GOP officially nominates him to lead the party’s presidential ticket at the Republican National Convention in Milwaukee.
“He has demonstrated an utter lack of respect for the Constitution, the rule of law and the American people”
I mean yeah, that’s why they like them. Why is the NYT board asking the GOP as if the GOP’s word means anything? Was this editorial written by time travelers from 2009?
I think they’re trying to follow the whims of Blue MAGA, who keep bringing up Donald Trump being unfit to lead as a whataboutism towards criticism of Biden. There’s been a lot of chatter about the news agencies being biased for not questioning Trump’s fitness but only focusing on Biden.
Even though yeah, no shit Trump’s unfit for office. We were shouting it throughout the entire 2016 election.
Even though yeah, no shit Trump’s unfit for office. We were shouting it throughout the entire 2016 election.
This is exactly what i’ve been saying every time someone asks “why aren’t we criticizing Trump tho?”
Well apparently that makes you “blue maga”
You’re looking for 1994, not 2009. This shitshow gained traction with Gingrich’s “Contract with America.” Up to that point, the GOP had been clandestine with their goals, and Reagan had only left office five years earlier.
Might have been better to start with that rather than the democrat candidate…
Interesting take by Timothy Snyder:
Fascism and Fear (here is the original Substack link, here the archived version)
One source of the negative energy is Trump’s fascism […] the threat and use of violence; and […] the big lie that must be accepted and used to reshape reality.
[…] it is the official big lie and the threats of violence that are dangerous to those whose job is to report truth. Trump is on the record as regarding reports as enemies of the people. What should I make — a journalist might ask — of Trump’s talk of arresting journalists? When not confronted, such questions become self-realizing fears.
[…] The Biden administration is being held to standards, while the previous Trump administration is not; and Biden personally is being held to standards, while Trump as a person is not. This helps to generate a fascist aura. There must be something special about Trump such that he is different from others: a Leader beyond criticism rather than just an indebted hack or a felon from Queens or a client of a Russian dictator.
It should seem odd that media calls to step down were not first directed to Trump. If we are calling for Biden to step aside because someone must stop Trump from bringing down the republic, then surely it would have made more sense to first call for Trump to step aside? (The Philadelphia Inquirer did). I know the counter-arguments: his people wouldn’t have cared, and he wouldn’t have listened. The first misses an important point. There are quite a few Americans who have not made up their minds. The second amounts to obeying in advance. If you accept that a fascist is beyond your reach, you have normalized your submission […]
