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The Impeachment Trial of Donald Trump - Closing Arguments

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Targetpractice2/03/2020 9:33:59 am PST

re: #32 Citizen K

Again, at this point? There’s functionally no difference.

And as far as trying to expose GOP bad faith by showing good will and faith? Sorry, it simply doesn’t work that way. Playing a soft hand and appealing to the better angels of a group that has gotten its unfettered power through unlimited bad faith is kind of exactly how we got to where we are to begin with. Obama tried to reach across the aisle constantly and had those attempts hung around his neck like an albatross time and time again. The GOP has gotten away with so much false equivalence because of the assumption of good faith on their part while they poison the well over and over again. The continued assumption of good faith on their part is just going to send the message that they can still do whatever they want with impunity and get the benefit of the doubt, all while casting aspersions on Dems and having said aspersions taken as gospel truth.

The fact that he’s seeing this in real time with the Hunter/Burisma bullshit and still makes this appeal sends the message to me that he’s far too nostalgic to do what needs to be done against the GOP at this point.

The bolded is one of the most maddening things about the corporate media, namely the strive for “balance” by treating every GOP argument/gripe/moan/whine as being made in good faith, no matter how blindingly obvious it is exactly the opposite.

Case in point, the “procedure” BS that is being used as the entire basis for the impeachment “defense,” which relies upon one being dumb enough to believe that the WH would ever cooperate with Congressional investigations if only those investigations were conducted in a manner that the WH approves of.