2. So you avert your gaze from Trump. You attack Clinton, the media, liberals of all sorts. You obsess about various side issues so as to..
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1. Re Trump rationalizers: If you're intelligent person, you can't quite make yourself defend Trump's behavior, statements and governance.
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3. ...avoid confronting the fact of the Trump presidency and its implications for American politics. It's a familiar psychological pattern:
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4. Those who do, at some level, know better are more infuriated at those who won't go along than are the simple-minded true believers.
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5. It's the collaborators who can't abide the resisters; it's the fellow travelers who most want to shut down dissenters.
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6. And so when we ask in our editorial -- http://www.weeklystandard.com/editorial-the-surrender/article/2010233 … -- whether conservatives and Republicans are willing to have it said...
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7. "that they stood on the sidelines and watched as the party of Lincoln and Teddy Roosevelt and Reagan was destroyed," we may not have...
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8. ...got it quite right. Because while some are standing quietly on the sidelines, many feel they have to take a side.
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9. And while they're too intelligent to do much cheering for Trump, the way they can show they are, really and truly, on his side...
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10. ...is by criticizing the critics. Decrying dissent is psychologically and intellectually easier than defending the indefensible. END
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