Discussion for article #241714
Ted/Trump '16!
That’s right Donald, you delusional yutz. Cruz is widely known for his niceness, respectfulness, and lack of personal ambition. He’s just pretending that he wants to win himself. Really he wants you to win. So does Bill Clinton, he’s your friend and campaign adviser too. It’s a sign of your widely self-declared high intelligence that you see that.
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This is the worst “reading” of a person’s character since Bush v. Putin.
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Stalin’s trusting Hitler also comes to mind for sheer head-smacking bafflement.
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Stalin is a great metaphor for the G.O.P…
The 1941 German imminent invasion of the Soviet Union was known to all. Except Stalin. Millions of Soviet troops died (not to mention Russian civilians). Leningrad was needlessly put under siege. However, since the Communist Party under Stalin was, by dogma, blameless, no blame was vigourously assigned–at least until after Stalin’s death.
Similarly, in the Obama era, among two social structures, the Republican Party is also, by dogma, blameless.
To FOX
To the MSM
Didn’t trust him. He was buying time. Signed the pact only after the idiot Brits made it clear they wouldn’t side with Soviets over the threat to Poland.
Why he was so slow to react to the German build-up in the Spring of '41 is another matter.
I certainly thought it worked for Comrade Donald because out of sheer complacent arrogance he’s making an assumption that’s just insane.
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OK, to say Stalin literally trusted Hitler is to suggest we know his mind, which I personally don’t. But as far as anything I’ve ever read on the subject says, the Soviet Union was caught off guard when the pact was broken, so the effect is the same—a colossal failure to grasp or at least respond to a threat that should have been obvious. My only real point is to emphasize that Trump is assuming benevolent good will from someone any sane person would realize is not his buddy and pal.
Concur.
And my remark (which was really an attempt to use your point to pivot to the idea of ideological BLAMELESSNESS) was meant to be in support OF your original point…
However, blamelessness–the INSTITUTIONAL kind–is death to any republic which depends on a Fourth Estate to at least make an attempt to inform the public. I am so convinced of the institutional inability of the MSM to properly assign blame to the G.O,.P, that I relish any opportunity to point it out, even using Josef Stalin.
You may be interested in a piece by James Fallows that talks about that very subject; he’s been concerned about false equivalency for years now. And it references other pieces, including this remarkable one by David Brooks, that also address the ever-more-obvious difference between the parties. There’ve been Cassandras among the conservative punditry talking about how the Republicans have gone crazy—David Frum comes to mind—but Brooks is the most prominent and may, I think we could at least hope, be an indicator of a trend. It would not be too soon. : )