1. Conservative pundits often remind me of the Japanese soldiers who continued fighting 20 and 30 years after the Emperor surrendered.https://twitter.com/hughhewitt/status/863017043603464193 …
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2. In this case, Trump has abandoned idea that Rosenstein memo was anything more than a pretext for firing Comey.
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3. Trump has said he was going to fire Comey no matter what Rosenstein memo said. But nimrods like
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4. Key to understanding conservative media like Hewitt, much of National Review & Federalist is that they are anti-anti-Trump.
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5. Anti-anti-Trump is way for conservatives to still appeal to a right-wing audience while avoiding taint of Trump's more indefensible acts
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6. In practice anti-anti-Trump means persnickety media criticism (among the bushes not in the bushes!) & tu quoque (Robert Byrd lives!)
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7. Tangentially, the prototype for this stance was Sartre's anti-anti-communism, which was problematic but far more honest.
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8. Sartre's anti-anti-communism, although it shaded into fellow traveling, at least opened a political space for anti-imperialism.
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Some of that and occasional pulling of punches.
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