“Trump Is The Deep State”

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The whistleblower complaint is now public. It’s very serious stuff. It’s backed up by the notes released yesterday by the White House, too. ……………………

I wrote yesterday about why many of us on the Right might conclude that even though Trump might be a crook, it might yet be important to vote for him because the Democratic Party represents a more serious, more consequential form of moral disorder than the president’s crookedness.

But let me take the other side here, for the sake of argument. Doing what Trump appears to have done is far, far more serious than having sex with an intern in the Oval Office and lying under oath. If conservatives are willing to overlook this behavior in Trump, and, if it is substantiated, not deliver any serious consequences for it, then we really will have unleashed him in a second term to be as reckless as he wants to be. What will he do with that power? Should any president, left or right, have that kind of de facto power? Many of us on the Right have for years complained about the imbalance of power between Congress and the increasingly powerful executive branch. If the allegations against Trump are substantiated, and Congress — which is to say, ultimately, the Republicans in the Senate — will not hold the executive accountable for extorting domestic political favors from a foreign head of state using the power of the presidency, then they will be guilty of having created conditions in which tyranny can flourish.

And if we — yeah, me too — are so afraid of the Democratic Party in power that we support Trump even if these charges are proved, then I don’t see how we avoid this moral stain, and responsibility for whatever follows. […] – Rod Dreher, TAC writer, Sept. 26,2019

After years of being a faithful reader of Rod, I stopped reading his posts over 2 yrs ago because IMO he had given in to White-man’s Fear of everything and his posts had become too right-wing crazy for me. However, over the past week (thanks to the Whistle-blower) something seems to be pulling him back to a place where perhaps..perhaps…I’ll be able to read at least some of his posts(?) We shall see.

I will believe it when I see it too. But if this really happen it would be the biggest story in the century.

George Conway, husband to White House counselor Kellyanne Conway and a frequent critic of President Trump, on Wednesday predicted that Republicans in the Senate would break with the president and vote to remove Trump from office if the House votes to impeach.

Conway tweeted that Republican senators would hide their decision to vote against the president until the last possible minute on the issue.

“There may be Republican senators who won’t say a word until the moment they say ‘guilty’ when the roll is called at the end of an impeachment trial,” he tweeted, responding to a political commentator who argued that Republican senators would vote to impeach the president because many “privately hate” Trump. […]- The Hill, Sept. 25, 2019

I’ll believe it when I see it. No surprise that that many of them hate Trump but they’ve already betrayed their oath of office and their country by surrendering to Trump in the first place. They’re nothing but a party of cowards now.

Yep. Clearly this is an act of abuse of power. Trump truly believes he can do anything without fear of ever having to be held accountable. Pelosi had no choice but to do the right thing or we’d be no better than a Banana Republic with a Mussolini wannabe in the White House.

This is about love of Country and upholding the Constitution and the Rule of Law.