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    Default Conservative ‘Legal Legend’ Rails Against Trump: ‘This Man Terrifies Me’

    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/charl...KE2-jXZy_RSmlo

    A longtime leading conservative voice slammed President Donald Trump on Thursday as “ignorant and foul-mouthed,” and warned the nation is in a constitutional crisis.

    Charles Fried, a constitutional law professor at Harvard University who was solicitor general to President Ronald Reagan, told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes how he fled Czechoslovakia when the Nazis took over and eventually settled in the United States.

    “I’ve had a wonderful life here. I love it, as do my children and my grandchildren,” he said. “And this man terrifies me.”

    Fried added:

    [Trump] says that the Constitution said ― and he said this to a bunch of high school students ― ‘I can do whatever I want, that’s what Article II says.’ Well it doesn’t, any lawyer knows that, any lawyer except maybe [Attorney General] Bill Barr and Mr. Cipollone [White House counsel Pat Cipollone].
    “Our fidelity is to the law, and to the office,” Fried said. “Not to a man.”

    Fried warned that Trump’s refusal to cooperate with Congress by blocking officials from testifying has placed the nation in a constitutional crisis.

    “They are in contempt,” he said of officials who won’t testify. “Of course, [Trump] is in contempt.”

    Hayes called Fried a “conservative legal legend” and asked what his fellow scholars on the right think of Trump.

    “They are horrified,” Fried answered. “It is the very opposite of the great Republicans, like Ronald Reagan, like Dwight Eisenhower. Can you imagine Dwight Eisenhower speaking the way this man speaks? Or Lincoln? Or Teddy Roosevelt? This man is ignorant and foul-mouthed.”
    Republican Congressman Ken Buck:
    “We’re at a time in American politics, that I am not going to lie on behalf of my presidential candidate, on behalf of my party. And I’m very sad that others in my party have taken the position that, as long as we get the White House, it doesn’t really matter what we say,”



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    Quote Originally Posted by DonaldvoTrumpovich View Post
    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/charl...KE2-jXZy_RSmlo

    A longtime leading conservative voice slammed President Donald Trump on Thursday as “ignorant and foul-mouthed,” and warned the nation is in a constitutional crisis.

    Charles Fried, a constitutional law professor at Harvard University who was solicitor general to President Ronald Reagan, told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes how he fled Czechoslovakia when the Nazis took over and eventually settled in the United States.

    “I’ve had a wonderful life here. I love it, as do my children and my grandchildren,” he said. “And this man terrifies me.”

    Fried added:

    [Trump] says that the Constitution said ― and he said this to a bunch of high school students ― ‘I can do whatever I want, that’s what Article II says.’ Well it doesn’t, any lawyer knows that, any lawyer except maybe [Attorney General] Bill Barr and Mr. Cipollone [White House counsel Pat Cipollone].
    “Our fidelity is to the law, and to the office,” Fried said. “Not to a man.”

    Fried warned that Trump’s refusal to cooperate with Congress by blocking officials from testifying has placed the nation in a constitutional crisis.

    “They are in contempt,” he said of officials who won’t testify. “Of course, [Trump] is in contempt.”

    Hayes called Fried a “conservative legal legend” and asked what his fellow scholars on the right think of Trump.

    “They are horrified,” Fried answered. “It is the very opposite of the great Republicans, like Ronald Reagan, like Dwight Eisenhower. Can you imagine Dwight Eisenhower speaking the way this man speaks? Or Lincoln? Or Teddy Roosevelt? This man is ignorant and foul-mouthed.”

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    Quote Originally Posted by reagansghost View Post
    I really don't care if they don't go public against Trump as long as they vote for conviction during impeachment.

    Republican Congressman Ken Buck:
    “We’re at a time in American politics, that I am not going to lie on behalf of my presidential candidate, on behalf of my party. And I’m very sad that others in my party have taken the position that, as long as we get the White House, it doesn’t really matter what we say,”



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    Awesome. Not all Conservatives are totally cucked.

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    Quote Originally Posted by StoneByStone View Post
    Awesome. Not all Conservatives are totally cucked.
    Yep, I know many conservatives who are anti-Trump, who haven't fallen for his flam-flam shell game like the "poorly-educated" on the right.
    See below:

    Trump Rally:



    Republican Congressman Ken Buck:
    “We’re at a time in American politics, that I am not going to lie on behalf of my presidential candidate, on behalf of my party. And I’m very sad that others in my party have taken the position that, as long as we get the White House, it doesn’t really matter what we say,”



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    Lol, another "Conservative legend" nobody ever heard of. Everyone knows Havard Law is chock full of Conservatives.
    Every life matters

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    Quote Originally Posted by DonaldvoTrumpovich View Post
    Yep, I know many conservatives who are anti-Trump, who haven't fallen for his flam-flam shell game like the "poorly-educated" on the right.
    See below:

    Trump Rally:



    I think stuff like this is kind of bad for the country too. Rednecks aren't all stupid, but when mainstream media makes fun of them like this, it drives them further to the Right. They become susceptible to people like Trump who claim that the establishment hates them.

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    can't wait to see those Trump-sucking GOP'ers at town halls next year, IF they have the balls to host one

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    Quote Originally Posted by StoneByStone View Post
    I think stuff like this is kind of bad for the country too. Rednecks aren't all stupid, but when mainstream media makes fun of them like this, it drives them further to the Right. They become susceptible to people like Trump who claim that the establishment hates them.
    Mainstream Media makes fun of rednecks? Where the hell do you get this, Gomer? Show me just one example of the Mainstream Media making fun of Rednecks. Nobody needs to make fun of rednecks. They do a great job of doing that themselves. And they become susceptible to people like Trump because of their stupidity, not because people make fun of them. You're really reaching here SBS. Too bad you don't have a better argument. This one is just plain silly. Or maybe YOU are a redneck and just don't realize it, Gomer.



    Republican Congressman Ken Buck:
    “We’re at a time in American politics, that I am not going to lie on behalf of my presidential candidate, on behalf of my party. And I’m very sad that others in my party have taken the position that, as long as we get the White House, it doesn’t really matter what we say,”



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    Quote Originally Posted by DonaldvoTrumpovich View Post
    Yep, I know many conservatives who are anti-Trump, who haven't fallen for his flam-flam shell game like the "poorly-educated" on the right.
    See below:

    Trump Rally:



    I wish I knew some

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    Quote Originally Posted by DonaldvoTrumpovich View Post
    Mainstream Media makes fun of rednecks? Where the hell do you get this, Gomer? Show me just one example of the Mainstream Media making fun of Rednecks. Nobody needs to make fun of rednecks. They do a great job of doing that themselves. And they become susceptible to people like Trump because of their stupidity, not because people make fun of them. You're really reaching here SBS. Too bad you don't have a better argument. This one is just plain silly. Or maybe YOU are a redneck and just don't realize it, Gomer.
    https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Deepsouth

    Imagine you come from a region and a culture where mainstream society ignores your concerns because the establishment thinks you and your family are all fat stupid racist alcoholics. Wouldn't you be more willing to trust someone who seemed to be the opposite of the establishment?

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    Quote Originally Posted by DonaldvoTrumpovich View Post
    https://www.huffpost.com/entry/charl...KE2-jXZy_RSmlo

    A longtime leading conservative voice slammed President Donald Trump on Thursday as “ignorant and foul-mouthed,” and warned the nation is in a constitutional crisis.

    Charles Fried, a constitutional law professor at Harvard University who was solicitor general to President Ronald Reagan, told MSNBC’s Chris Hayes how he fled Czechoslovakia when the Nazis took over and eventually settled in the United States.

    “I’ve had a wonderful life here. I love it, as do my children and my grandchildren,” he said. “And this man terrifies me.”

    Fried added:

    [Trump] says that the Constitution said ― and he said this to a bunch of high school students ― ‘I can do whatever I want, that’s what Article II says.’ Well it doesn’t, any lawyer knows that, any lawyer except maybe [Attorney General] Bill Barr and Mr. Cipollone [White House counsel Pat Cipollone].
    “Our fidelity is to the law, and to the office,” Fried said. “Not to a man.”

    Fried warned that Trump’s refusal to cooperate with Congress by blocking officials from testifying has placed the nation in a constitutional crisis.

    “They are in contempt,” he said of officials who won’t testify. “Of course, [Trump] is in contempt.”

    Hayes called Fried a “conservative legal legend” and asked what his fellow scholars on the right think of Trump.

    “They are horrified,” Fried answered. “It is the very opposite of the great Republicans, like Ronald Reagan, like Dwight Eisenhower. Can you imagine Dwight Eisenhower speaking the way this man speaks? Or Lincoln? Or Teddy Roosevelt? This man is ignorant and foul-mouthed.”
    Huffington Post dismissed. It is not the Constitution. The Constitution is the Constitution.

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    Quote Originally Posted by StoneByStone View Post
    https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/Deepsouth

    Imagine you come from a region and a culture where mainstream society ignores your concerns because the establishment thinks you and your family are all fat stupid racist alcoholics. Wouldn't you be more willing to trust someone who seemed to be the opposite of the establishment?
    There are options for people who dislike "sophisticated Democrats". This is on Trumptards for being exceptionally dumb.
    Their choice is not likely to disabuse many of their prejudices against rural folk.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Micawber View Post
    There are options for people who dislike "sophisticated Democrats". This is on Trumptards for being exceptionally dumb.
    Their choice is not likely to disabuse many of their prejudices against rural folk.
    Sure, but if we want to show these people that Trump is lying to them, we first have to be nice enough that they want to even listen to us. You don't try to talk Muslims into leaving radical Islam but making fun of Muslim stereotypes.

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