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Originally Posted by Tyrone Slothrop
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I have friends, as I'm sure you do, among the crowd who have occupied conservative justice posts over the last several administrations. In talking with them these days, while they are all horrified in various ways by Trump, they are also all still very much Republicans. Most, but not all of them, have the customary stick up their ass, they are usually pretty open elitists, and they're hostile toward everything from health care reform to voting rights. So they look at Trump and say, yes, he's a wretched crook, but he's our wretched crook. They all think various fairly nasty Republican figures of the past, from Nixon to Bork, got a raw deal. Yet, most of them play by the rules and only a few question Brown v. Board.
I put Rosenstein in that crowd. Sure, he's got his own self-defined sense of honor and he has character in the sense that he is unlikely to lie about his conduct (but don't criticize his Yale bud who tells a few racist jokes in the locker room as having any kind of stain on his character). They are people who can be much worse, even if for the most part they're not particularly appealing, though sometimes quite amusing (and actually I can think of one of them who I think has actual good character - I still can't figure out why he's a Republican). And they're mostly people who are willing to accommodate Trump even if they do so with some disdain.
