"Lowry and others are intelligent people who know better, but their decision to bend the knee to Trump—even if only with a very small curtsy—requires them to take to the pages of America’s national newspapers and say that Trump might be terrible but Democrats are worse. ...

The anti-anti-Trumpers must now define Harris—and all Democrats—as evil beyond words. Otherwise, how would they explain the ghastly compromises they’ve made?"

#Trump #Republicans #NewYorkTimes #character #values
/2

"Principles are sometimes burdensome things; that’s part of what makes them principles. The behavior of the anti-anti-Trumpers continues to be an inexcusable betrayal of the values they once claimed to hold. Many of them spoke, even passionately, against Trump—and then they shuffled into line. And for what? One more federal judge? A few billion more dollars in the account of a donor?"

#Trump #Republicans #NewYorkTimes #character #values #morality #principles
/3

"It’s one thing to sell your soul cheaply. It’s another to keep taking out second and third mortgages on it until all that’s left is debt and shame."

#Trump #Republicans #NewYorkTimes #character #values #morality #principles
/4

"As of Monday, August 26, 2024, we can safely say that the NYTimes is an 'unserious newspaper.'

The NYT’s Monday edition included a guest essay by Rich Lowry entitled, Trump Can Win on Character. ...

When the Times opens its editorial pages to opinions that are objectively, demonstrably false and misleading, the Times should be viewed as approving of those opinions."

~ Robert B. Hubbell

#Trump #Republicans #NewYorkTimes #character #values #morality #principles
/5

https://roberthubbell.substack.com/p/harris-walz-campaign-goes-on-offense

"No responsible editorial board would platform such views unless it believed they were held in good faith and belonged within the realm of public discourse."

#Trump #Republicans #NewYorkTimes #character #values #morality #principles
/6

"Trump has done what no Democrat—not Bill or Hillary Clinton, not Mario Cuomo or John Kerry, not Joe Biden or Barack Obama, not any Democrat—could have done. He has, at the national level, made the Republican Party de facto pro-choice."

~ Peter Wehner

#Trump #abortion #Republicans #ProLife #ProChoice
/7

https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2024/08/trump-betrays-pro-life-movement/679622/

"Who in the pro-life movement—Al Mohler, Mike Huckabee, Franklin Graham, Eric Metaxas, Marjorie Dannenfelser, Ralph Reed, Tony Perkins, Robert Jeffress, and countless others—will speak out, publicly and forcefully and relentlessly, against Trump’s about-face?"

#Trump #abortion #Republicans #ProLife #ProChoice
/8

"Will they tell the full truth, which is that abortions increased during the Trump presidency, that the pro-life movement is weaker than at almost any time in its history, and that, when it comes to making the Republican Party the home of the pro-life cause, Trump is doing unprecedented damage?

Will they now say of Trump what they say of liberal Democrats, that he supports the murder of innocent unborn children?"

#Trump #abortion #Republicans #ProLife #ProChoice
/9

"Once the strategic, logistical, and ideological concerns are resolved, there’s only one thing left to explain the lack of anti-Trump Republican support for Kamala.

These people are chickenshit. ...

To all the GOP politicians who, deep in their heart, know that Trump is too grave a risk."

~ Tim Miller

#Trump #Republicans #character #values #morality #principles
/10

https://www.thebulwark.com/p/republicans-who-served-with-trump-and-saw-the-crazy-should-endorse-kamala-harris

"To the seventeen Republicans who voted to impeach and convict him. To the vice president he would’ve happily left for dead.

Say it loud and proud: Kamala Harris for president.

I promise you it will be a relief to get it off your chest. Because doing the right thing is never the wrong thing."

#Trump #Republicans #character #values #morality #principles
/11

"After over a year in this job, I cannot understand Putin’s hold on Trump.”

~ Retired Army Gen. H.R. McMaster

#Trump #Republicans #character #values #morality #principles #Putin
/12

https://www.msnbc.com/rachel-maddow-show/maddowblog/hr-mcmaster-struggled-understand-putins-hold-trump-rcna168176

"So the sun was out and shining as this third-generation draft dodger pretended to care about the soldiers who were suckers and losers enough to get killed during the United States' withdrawal from its Afghanistan adventure. How in the hell this was allowed to happen is beyond me."

~ Charles Pierce

#Trump #Republicans #character #values #morality #principles #veterans
/13

https://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/a61975583/trump-arlington-cemetery-visit/

"Arlington is the country's 'most hallowed ground.' (Just ask the tour guides.) Arlington is profaned by his presence on just an average day. But to allow itself to be used for the purpose propping up one of the Republican Party's most noxious half-truths—as promulgated by its most noxious elements personified by its most noxious candidate—is an insult to the over 400 Medal of Honor awardees buried there."

#Trump #Republicans #character #values #morality #principles #veterans
/14

"As a citizen of the United States, and therefore someone with a stake in places like Arlington, I choose to look upon his presence there as obscene."

#Trump #Republicans #character #values #morality #principles #veterans
/15

"Donald Trump has dominated in polling of people who pay little attention to political news. What do they have to say?"

In a "Letter from the South," Charles Bethea looks at "low-information" voters and hoooboy, if you can bring yourself to read his report, you can just about imagine the nonsense that fills their heads and causes them love them some Trump.

"Education rates are low, and mainstream news does not easily take root."

#Trump #LowInformationVoters
/16

https://www.newyorker.com/news/letter-from-the-south/among-americas-low-information-voters