Ого!

[yakov_a_jerkov]

И я даже не говорю о сегодняшней статье в WP -- "Trump dictated son’s misleading statement on meeting with Russian lawyer" -- хотя и это, конечно, "Hello!"

Я говорю о статье, которую сенатор-республиканец, Jeff Flake, опубликовал сегодня в Politico. Собственно, заголовок статьи говорит сам за себя.

My Party Is in Denial About Donald Trump:
We created him, and now we're rationalizing him. When will it stop?

Приведу несколько цитат из статьи:

It was we conservatives who were largely silent when the most egregious and sustained attacks on Obama’s legitimacy were leveled by marginal figures who would later be embraced and legitimized by far too many of us. [...]

To carry on in the spring of 2017 as if what was happening was anything approaching normalcy required a determined suspension of critical faculties. And tremendous powers of denial. [...]

Too often, we observe the unfolding drama along with the rest of the country, passively, all but saying, “Someone should do something!” without seeming to realize that that someone is us. And so, that unnerving silence in the face of an erratic executive branch is an abdication, and those in positions of leadership bear particular responsibility. [...]

If by 2017 the conservative bargain was to go along for the very bumpy ride because with congressional hegemony and the White House we had the numbers to achieve some long-held policy goals—even as we put at risk our institutions and our values—then it was a very real question whether any such policy victories wouldn’t be Pyrrhic ones. If this was our Faustian bargain, then it was not worth it. If ultimately our principles were so malleable as to no longer be principles, then what was the point of political victories in the first place?

Ничего себе! Я знаю, что Jeff Flake всегда очень критично относился к Трампу, но, по-моему, до сих пор настолько критичных и однозначных выступлений от действующих республиканских сенаторов или конгрессменов не было. Или были?

Comments

[scholar-vit.livejournal.com]

Он в статье говорит:

For a conservative, that’s an awfully bitter pill to swallow. So as I layered in my defense mechanisms, I even found myself saying things like, “If I took the time to respond to every presiden­tial tweet, there would be little time for anything else.” Given the volume and velocity of tweets from both the Trump campaign and then the White House, this was certainly true. But it was also a monumental dodge. It would be like Noah saying, “If I spent all my time obsessing about the coming flood, there would be little time for anything else.” At a certain point, if one is being honest, the flood becomes the thing that is most worthy of attention. At a certain point, it might be time to build an ark.

Тут скорее не ковчег, а корабль. Тонущий. С крысами. И т.д.

[yakov-a-jerkov.livejournal.com]

Даже если и так, все равно очень примечательно, что вот так открыто сенатор-республиканец выступил.