It seemed, during the 2016 presidential campaign, that people couldn’t get enough of Trump’s simplistic, scurrilous outrages. They sucked it up– though a majority, actually, did not– and it looked like they accepted his bluster as the hallmark of a leader who would shake things up and “drain the swamp”.
As “Deep Throat” observed during Watergate, these people are really not very smart. There has been a steady stream of chaos and befuddlement from the White House, as well as outright lies. The most recent is that the Democrats are responsible for the children being separated from their parents and held in cages at the border crossings with Mexico. In some cases, they are sent away, to relatives living in the U.S., or foster homes, or, at least in some cases, to group homes where they are required to work.
This is not a small lie. It’s not a white lie. It’s not spin. It is an outright fabrication. Sarah Huckabee Sanders even doubled-down on it at the daily press-briefing: the Democrats, who, need I remind you, do not run the executive branch or the legislative branch of the government at the moment, are causing children to be seized, separated from their parents, and locked in cages. But then, they are the ones acting biblically, because she also defends the practice as biblical because the bible tells people to respect the authorities.
And here you have classic internal proof of lying: it’s fine, it’s biblical, it’s right, but it’s the Democrats fault.
Finally, brothers and sisters, whatever is true, whatever is noble, whatever is right, whatever is pure, whatever is lovely, whatever is admirable — if anything is excellent or praiseworthy — think about such things and the God of peace will be with you” (Philippians 4:8).
You can get through an election campaign with lies, but I don’t believe you can survive as a government for very long with them.
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