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Re: Mother, mother, mother - there's too many of you crying.
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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
No. The key to that piece is what Trump is actually doing, not that characterization of it. By reacting to the latter, you walk away from the former.
Thank you for acknowledging that what Trump is doing is new. I know it's hard for you to do that, and I appreciate the effort. But it's not just that he's lying. He said Democrats are guilty of treason and un-American for not supporting him. I don't see that as a natural expansion of the game, and you can pretend it is only by abstracting away from what he is actually doing.
The answer to your question is, we all do. It's a democracy, and we are all engaged in a constant process of agreeing on rules and norms. What Trump is doing to gratify his own ego and to advantage himself and his political party is deeply corrosive to our common challenge of trying to live in the same country together. The fact that most Republicans are going along with it should be deeply disturbing.
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Republicans are going along with the show because a significant number of their voters don’t want to live in a nation where they compromise with Democrats.
McConnell, not Trump, proved that you could beat Democrats by simply ignoring the norms (Garland).
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