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Everything Is Exactly as It Should be

posted 4 days ago by KBiker (1237)
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Bret Stephens: Hi, Gail. You may or may not be happy to hear this, but once again I feel completely nauseated by Donald Trump. That took all of four weeks.

Gail Collins: Bret, what’s left for us to talk about? Except taxes and government spending and diversity programs and …

OK, tell me your Trump trauma, and I suspect we will find common ground.

Bret Stephens: Vladimir Putin being invited to the United States is the equivalent of Franklin Roosevelt receiving Adolf Hitler in Hyde Park sometime after Hitler marched into the Sudetenland. Trump’s style is to be brutal with our allies — Canada, Mexico, Panama, Denmark, Europe in general — but obsequious toward our enemies. The betrayal this represents for Ukraine, which apparently will now have to pay us in minerals for our tepid support for its right to live free, will be a mark of shame for the United States for decades to come.

Gail: We don’t argue foreign affairs, but I suspect if we did, I’d agree.

Excerpted from NYTimes op-ed writers Bret Stephens and Gail Collins, as if that isn't obvious. Link: https://www.nytimes.com/2025/02/17/opinion/trump-doge-republicans-democrats.html

[–] SamNoyoun (6012) 3 days ago

Trump is a distillation of our past presidents’ worst impulses and actions — without any of their redeeming qualities.

He’s Thomas Jefferson’s hypocrisy without the rhetorical brilliance, Andrew Jackson’s brutality minus the military prowess, Richard Nixon’s paranoia stripped of its diplomatic acumen.

[–] jriley555 (8541) 3 days ago

And yet, the clown couldn't bring himself to endorse the opponent. So, you know, who cares about Brett's ex-post-facto moaning - it only took him a few weeks to realize what he should have well known years ago. Where was he on Jan 6 2021 ?