Comments on: L’état, c’est Trump? https://lettersblogatory.com/2020/02/03/letat-cest-trump/ The Blog of International Judicial Assistance Thu, 06 Feb 2020 11:00:43 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.4 By: A Profile In Courage | Letters Blogatory https://lettersblogatory.com/2020/02/03/letat-cest-trump/#comment-3369 Thu, 06 Feb 2020 11:00:43 +0000 https://lettersblogatory.com/?p=29007#comment-3369 […] And who would have thought that Mitt Romney would be the one to teach that lesson. A few days ago I wrote that apparently every Republican senator was going to endorse the abyss and excuse what just a few […]

]]> By: Ted Folkman https://lettersblogatory.com/2020/02/03/letat-cest-trump/#comment-3368 Wed, 05 Feb 2020 11:48:15 +0000 https://lettersblogatory.com/?p=29007#comment-3368 In reply to Mike.

Welcome to 2020, Mike!

]]> By: Mike https://lettersblogatory.com/2020/02/03/letat-cest-trump/#comment-3367 Tue, 04 Feb 2020 17:30:45 +0000 https://lettersblogatory.com/?p=29007#comment-3367 Among all the other troubling impeachment arguments, this one jumped out at me too as breathtakingly cynical and dangerous.

]]> By: Ted Folkman https://lettersblogatory.com/2020/02/03/letat-cest-trump/#comment-3366 Tue, 04 Feb 2020 03:27:12 +0000 https://lettersblogatory.com/?p=29007#comment-3366 In reply to Conor.

Thanks Conor!

]]> By: Ted Folkman https://lettersblogatory.com/2020/02/03/letat-cest-trump/#comment-3365 Tue, 04 Feb 2020 03:26:59 +0000 https://lettersblogatory.com/?p=29007#comment-3365 In reply to Antonio Fiorentino Di Stefano.

Thanks, Antonio! The Protestant work ethic is alive and well in Boston, I am happy to say. I agree with much of your diagnosis of the national character. I would put it like this: we are short on civic virtue today.

]]> By: Ted Folkman https://lettersblogatory.com/2020/02/03/letat-cest-trump/#comment-3364 Tue, 04 Feb 2020 03:24:02 +0000 https://lettersblogatory.com/?p=29007#comment-3364 In reply to Melissa Madrigal.

Thanks Melissa!

]]> By: Conor https://lettersblogatory.com/2020/02/03/letat-cest-trump/#comment-3363 Mon, 03 Feb 2020 22:35:44 +0000 https://lettersblogatory.com/?p=29007#comment-3363 Likewise. This sordid example of appalling behavior, coupled with imprimatur of the GOP in the Senate, makes me wonder where the bottom is.

]]> By: Antonio Fiorentino Di Stefano https://lettersblogatory.com/2020/02/03/letat-cest-trump/#comment-3362 Mon, 03 Feb 2020 21:17:16 +0000 https://lettersblogatory.com/?p=29007#comment-3362 I came to this country with the illusion of the “Protestant ethic.” That such Protestants lived by an ethical-religious code that compelled them to do the right thing. As opposed to the Catholic culture from which I came, that among the laity seemed to have lost that moral imperative long ago. Now I know it is gone. Christianity simply another modality serving a fundamental private and institutional self-interest above all else. I envy the cultures of the East that still instill in the individual duty to their community and their people, It is paradoxical that the last manifestation and passion for that morality in the West was the philosophy of Communism, in spite of the fact that its flaws only promised political and economic failures. We are now a culture of no convictions other than private interest. It seems that those that founded this country have managed to form us all in their image. Alas life is short, and it is doubtful we shall see the dramatic changes in consciousness that are needed to ensure a secure future for the American people.

]]> By: Melissa Madrigal https://lettersblogatory.com/2020/02/03/letat-cest-trump/#comment-3361 Mon, 03 Feb 2020 11:20:42 +0000 https://lettersblogatory.com/?p=29007#comment-3361 Bravo.

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