Another way to think about the meltdown of the past week: Trump said the US bore a share of the blame for deteriorated relations with Russia. In doing so, he veered from the typical American Exceptionalism script. That’s unacceptable for much of the political class. Thus, treason
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Amusingly, the GOP’s dominant critique of Obama was that he embarked on an “Apology Tour” which belied America’s exceptional nature. But ironically, he never went nearly as far as Trump. Hypocrisy and stupidity abounds
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Generic establishment Republicans criticized Obama for this, not just the ideological neocons. Now, these same types are very tepid in their criticism of Trump, if they’ve criticized him at all. So yes, vast swathes of the GOP have been exposed as hypocrites
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