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Re: Trump [and Republiscums/QAnon generally] Is Going After One of the Most Conservative Institutions in the U.S. Government
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Bud Frawley
Aug 18, 2022, 5:53:26 PM8/18/22
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On 18 Aug 2022, Klaus Schadenfreude
<klaus.schadenfreude.entfärben.@gmail.com> posted some
news:bUuLK.793855$J0r9....@fx11.iad:
> Of all the weird and historically discordant moments and news stories
> of the Donald Trump era, few seem stranger than watching the former
> president and his allies demonize the F.B.I. as some sort of rogue
> “woke” Democratic deep state mob. This has been happening for
> several years now, but in the days since the F.B.I. searched Mr.
> Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago, the bureau has attracted particularly
> withering criticism for its supposedly leftist persecution of Mr.
> Trump, and Republicans have even begun to call to “defund the
> corrupt F.B.I.”
>
> Historically, though, the F.B.I. has been arguably the most culturally
> conservative and traditionally white Christian institution in the
> entire U.S. government. It’s an institution so culturally
> conservative, even by the standards of law enforcement, that
> Democratic presidents have never felt comfortable — or politically
> emboldened — enough to nominate a Democrat to head the bureau.
>
> That’s right: Far from being a bastion of progressive thinking,
> every single director of the F.B.I. has been a Republican-aligned
> official, going all the way back to its creation. Such history
> suggests that the issue here is Mr. Trump and not institutional bias.
>
> https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/18/opinion/trump-fbi-conservative.html
>
> The issue is *always* Trump. He is a cancer.
Only to Democrats!
<klaus.schadenfreude.entfärben.@gmail.com> posted some
news:bUuLK.793855$J0r9....@fx11.iad:
> Of all the weird and historically discordant moments and news stories
> of the Donald Trump era, few seem stranger than watching the former
> president and his allies demonize the F.B.I. as some sort of rogue
> “woke” Democratic deep state mob. This has been happening for
> several years now, but in the days since the F.B.I. searched Mr.
> Trump’s home at Mar-a-Lago, the bureau has attracted particularly
> withering criticism for its supposedly leftist persecution of Mr.
> Trump, and Republicans have even begun to call to “defund the
> corrupt F.B.I.”
>
> Historically, though, the F.B.I. has been arguably the most culturally
> conservative and traditionally white Christian institution in the
> entire U.S. government. It’s an institution so culturally
> conservative, even by the standards of law enforcement, that
> Democratic presidents have never felt comfortable — or politically
> emboldened — enough to nominate a Democrat to head the bureau.
>
> That’s right: Far from being a bastion of progressive thinking,
> every single director of the F.B.I. has been a Republican-aligned
> official, going all the way back to its creation. Such history
> suggests that the issue here is Mr. Trump and not institutional bias.
>
> https://www.nytimes.com/2022/08/18/opinion/trump-fbi-conservative.html
>
> The issue is *always* Trump. He is a cancer.
Only to Democrats!
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