3. Trump has said he was going to fire Comey no matter what Rosenstein memo said. But nimrods like @hughhewitt still pretend memo matters.
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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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9. As against Sartre trying to move beyond constricting Cold War binaries, anti-anti-Trump is just thin partisan gruel.
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10. For more on the intellectual pathos of anti-anti-Trumpism, see this piece:https://newrepublic.com/article/142664/trump-making-fool-conservative-media …
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11. Sartre's anti-anti-communism was tragedy. National Review's anti-anti-Trumpism is farce.
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