@blatham,
In your expressions here you frequently write or imply that those who disagree with your political views are either evil or stupid or both. That is certainly not the case, but your ill founded certainty on these matters indicates that you are every bit as fixed in your unquestioned assumptions as are the imaginary "movement conservatives" against whom you rail so frequently.
Our lives and the politics that surround us are a good deal more complex than the many opinion pieces you so tediously post here would suggest. The struggle to find effective economic and political solutions to the challenges that face republics involves many factors beyond the simplistic Left- Right dilemmas , though of late our political discourse has degenerated to little more than that.
Trump is hardily a doctrinaire Republican ( or even Conservative). Instead he is a pragmatic populist who offers (in my view) ideas and policies that have been too long ignored by both parties in my country. That he is also an egocentric vulgarian certainly offends the sensibilities of the self-appointed advocates of contemporary group values, adding to the distemper they exhibit towards him.
The human frailties that attend him are no worse than those exhibited by the defeated Hillary or most of his predecessors in office.
That Scooter Libby might have been wrongly accused and convicted is not a new idea. Certainly the crime of which he was accused (if it was a crime at all) and his conviction were matters of some controversy from the moment they were announced. President Obama willfully and purposefully directed the non enforcement of immigration laws and distorted education and criminal justice policies based on doctrines of group outcomes not recognized in our constitution, and famously, used his phone and his pen to usurp authority to alter laws in defiance of their clear intent. I assume you believ3e that was "just peachy". Others don't.
