Political Theatre category archive
Imagine . . . 0
Bret Stephens plays “imagine.” A snippet:
Would conservative pundits and politicians:
(a) Praise President Clinton for abandoning her old habits of secrecy and standing strong on the side of transparency in government?
(b) Call for her impeachment on grounds that she had compromised national security for shamelessly self-serving political reasons?
Imagine, too, that after firing James Comey for insufficient loyalty, President Clinton had asked the deputy director of the FBI how he had voted in the election in an Oval Office meeting. Imagine, in this same connection, that the effort to oust the deputy director was only a warm-up to getting rid of the deputy attorney general, a well-regarded, straight-shooting Democrat who had appointed the special counsel looking into Clinton’s Russia ties.
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The Rule of Lawless 0
Josh Marshall reports on This Week in Lawless.
The Rule of Lawless 0
Elie Mystal comments of the Trumpling of the FBI. A snippet:
I think not. I think the “rule of law” stage of America is over, and we are entering a stage of “rule of man.”
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Path to Pariah 0
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No Immunity 0
Leonard Pitts, Jr., points out that it can happen here (an almost has). Here’s a bit:
Well, if Trump’s rise proves nothing else, it proves that it could happen here. It even shows how. Meaning that, more than any other single event, his presidency has forced us to see our vulnerability to new media manipulation and disinformation. Tweet by agonizing tweet, he has embodied the frightening possibilities of this new idea that truth can be whatever you need it to be.