Trump..... (The Sophistry Thread)

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moorey said:
Is pulling out of Syria a bridge too far even for the warmongering/sycophant Republicans?
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https://theintercept.com/2019/10/07/kurds-syria-turkey-trump-betrayal/

Roughly, this is the 8th time this has happened - the Kurds are surely prepared. For all the pearl-clutching, it appears that if the yokel base isn't up in arms about it, Trump doesn't give a shit if the experts or reasonable observers think he's making a huge mistake. Disdain for expertise is a defining characteristic of Trump, after all, as is impulsive decision-making.
 
He earned public criticism from some of his most ardent supporters. It’s only a matter of time before he lashed out at them and says they’ve always ‘done a terrible job’.
Plenty of senators appear to be getting cold feet, if only to save their own political arses.
 
moorey said:
Plenty of senators appear to be getting cold feet, if only to save their own political arses.
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This is what people don't understand about the American system - basically, the political fortunes of congresspeople are highly dependent on those of the president. The general public makes little distinction between the constitutional roles of senators or representatives, but the president gets most of the press. Attacking the president is effectively attacking themselves, not to mention drastically raising the risk of getting a primary challenger. For many GOP senators in extraordinarily safe states, being primaried from the right is the main political risk they have to fear, they are not really responsible to the general public. There's some strong evidence that the policy priorities of most voters are basically irrelevant to elected American officials (depressing summary here).
 
There’s plenty of republicans from purple states. If they see Trump as toxic, they will dump him...in a few months...so that they aren’t primaried.
 
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