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Bad, but not impeachable. Is this the argument that Republicans will settle on to acquit the president if, as it seems increasingly likely, he is impeached by the Democratic House? Also, the bizarre effort on the part of the press to avoid offending… radical Islamist terrorists?
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I’m generally much more on Noah’s side than John’s side when it comes to assessing how serious Trump’s offense was, but he didn’t do the position any favors this episode. John was absolutely right when he said that it doesn’t matter how much legitimacy or correctness there is in the various bizarre arguments put forth by Trump’s defenders in Congress. It doesn’t matter how absurd the arguments are; the same people who believe Trump’s “millions of illegal immigrants voted” will believe everything else he says, even if it’s patently false.
On the al-Baghdadi headline, I think Abe is absolutely correct. If the only problem was the word “terrorist”, as John believes, they would have simply replaced it with “militant” the way they always do when talking about Palestinians attacking Israelis. This was a deliberate attempt to deny Trump a victory.
Finally, something in the description of how the media makes scandals go away by refusing to apologize or explain their mistakes reminded me of how Trump does the exact same thing whenever he does something wrong. כל הפוסל במומו פוסל: They hate him because he is their mirror image.
You’re saying that readers of Commentary have not learned reasons to strongly dislike President Trump?
I don’t think Tevye from Anatevka thought of Ukraine has his homeland. It was his home, but not his homeland.
My grandfather came from Galicia. Trust me, he had zero allegiance to Poland, Germany, Austria, or any of the other countries that murdered his entire family.