45* continues to punch down at every opportunity.
Elizabeth Bruenig, WaPo:
If mercy is not only meeting but exceeding the requirements of justice — giving others not just their due but more — then cruelty is its opposite, exceeding even the privations of injustice: not only failing to give others their due but taking from them even more.
President Trump’s comparison to Caesar in a brief 2017 run of Shakespeare’s famous play may thus have been too generous — merciful, even. Whatever virtues Trump and his administration are aiming for, mercy isn’t among them. Mercy, after all, is a quality of the strong; in his repeated attacks on those with the very least, Trump is most obviously weak.
The single ray of hope - although it's a strong one - is that I think I'm detecting more of a change in the behavior of the Press Poodles lately.
eg: John Harwood - not exactly the model of a Lefty Loonie - has been very critical of 45* the last coupla times I've seen him on MSNBC, which denotes a very different stance on his part. He's always been a down-the-line-just-the-facts-ma'am kinda reporter, but in the last week or so he's said a few things on air that seem to indicate he really understands the danger, and he's starting to throw off the Presumption Of Regularity bullshit and report to us just how fucked up 45* really is.
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