This is a “more professional White House”? Only if you have been so desensitized by Trump’s first year in office that you no longer recognize when your country is in danger.
Those words are from the middle of a column for tomorrow’s Washington Post by MS-NBC host and former Florida Republican Congressman Joe Scarborough.
Scarborough discusses the conflict between those supporting Trump and those accepting the words of Michael Wolff. He discusses the recent column by David Brooks over which so many have fawned, in which Brooks somehow described the televised conference as demonstrating a more professional White House, to which his immediate reaction was
I find myself at a rare loss for words. Let’s simply review Trump’s actions over the three days since Brooks’s column was published.
It is after reviewing those actions, including the “shithole nations” remark of today that the first block quote is offered.
I will not analyze the entire column.
I am aware that many here do not like Scarborough, and feel that the access he and Mika gave to their show helped propel that conman’s candidacy.
Still, he has been firmly anti-Trump for quite some time, and his occasional pieces for the Post have often hit home hard on key points.
So let me offer the final two paragraphs of the column, as a means of suggesting you might want to read the whole thing.
Winston Churchill wrote of the lead-up to World War II: “The malice of the wicked is reinforced by the weakness of the virtuous. . . . The counsels of prudence and restraint may become the prime agents of mortal danger; how the middle course adopted from desires for safety and a quiet life may be found to lead direct to the bulls-eye of disaster.”
In our day, there can be no compromise or middle ground between those who defend the Constitution and a president who understands so little of what has made our nation great. The fight for America’s future has begun, and the time for rationalizing Trump’s aberrant behavior is long past.