"Today, Rich Lowry, the editor of National Review (the flagship conservative magazine founded by William F. Buckley Jr.), published an article claiming that Donald Trump could win the 2024 election 'on character.'”
No, really."
~Tom Nichols
#Trump #Republicans #NewYorkTimes #character #values #morality #principles
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"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?"
"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
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"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
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"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
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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
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"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
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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?"
"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?"
@wdlindsy I don't think most of the anti-abortion crowd want fewer abortions. If they did, they would pump money into programs that would support mothers and children, removing as many obstacles to having children as possible.
Since they don't, clearly they don't want less abortions. They want to *ban* abortions, regardless of whether it's successful. They just want religious laws on the books. That's it.
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