re: #14 piratedan

I’m going to take a more compassionate pass on her….

Most of us here have seen what the last 50 years of Fox News and Rupert Murdoch have wrought. AM Radio and Rush Limbaugh and the framing in the MSM and their relentless ads of casting Dems as evil and all of their policies of being unamerican if not illegal. Think of the MILLIONS of low information or have-always-been Republican families that have been marinating in this stew, growing up in this “culture” and I can see where you can end up with someone like Ms. Hutchinson, who at her core may be a nice person who has made allowances for the people she’s politically aligned with forever because that’s what they’ve always done.

Then having to be confronted with the very real evidence that Donald Trump is not a good guy and wants to use him as the emotional dumpster for everything wrong with the GOP. That’s fine, every journey starts with a first step.

She may not be a hero, but when you look at the number of staff who worked in and around the WH and she’s one of the few who had that combination of a set of morals and ethics and was on the fringe of personal awareness that they would underbus her the moment that it was expedient to do so.

It’s a coping mechanism, a bit like how you couldn’t find a German who’d ever supported the Nazis or Hitler within six months of the end of the war. You avoid responsibility (and thus the consequences) of your actions by externalizing them, by giving them a face that others can hate, and stylizing yourself as being every bit a victim as the people who you terrorized and oppressed in his name.

The most recent modern example would be how you’d struggle to find anyone who still supports the Iraq War, how all the cheerleaders and warmongers of yesteryear have long since restyled themselves as skeptics and critics who were sure the war would be a disaster and place the blame either entirely on Dubya or spread it around to his inner circle. But never themselves, they were just as much “victims” as the soldiers who came back eating through a straw.