Friday, March 23, 2018

Joe Scarborough doesn't like Donald Trump


It isn't news that former congressman, current political talk show host and pundit Joe Scarborough doesn't think very highly of Donald Trump, and he has plenty of motivation for that.  So in a recent op-ed, Scarborough provided a very good impression of his feelings.


John Bolton’s appointment is a fitting coda to conservatism’s failures

For context:
"Russell Kirk’s “The Conservative Mind,” published in 1953, laid the foundations of a modern conservative movement that dominated the second half of the American Century. But 65 years later, Kirk’s classic work reads instead as a damning indictment against the very movement he helped launch."
That serves to put the Kirk reference in the following in context.
"Yes, the Soviet Union is in the dustbin of history, Osama bin Laden is dead and ISIS is — at least temporarily — on its heels. But the inner chaos Kirk warned of so many years ago runs rampant in a country dominated by the bloated presence of a man who embraces dictators, vilifies the free press, corrupts religious leaders, absolves white supremacists, degrades women and continues a life’s work defined by little more than the amoral pursuit of material wealth."
Like I said, Joe doesn't like Donald Trump very much.


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