tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7739601669247573025.post8290058071469243122..comments2024-01-03T19:52:13.246-08:00Comments on Casey Pops: Spygate : The Mother of All American Political ScandalsCasey-Popshttp://www.blogger.com/profile/01003863792380524378noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7739601669247573025.post-39049047720470628232018-06-03T03:38:16.454-07:002018-06-03T03:38:16.454-07:00Whether or not you call informants on criminal inv...Whether or not you call informants on criminal investigations spies, there is no doubt that you refer to secret government operatives in counterintelligence investigations as spies. Regardless, arguments over whether use of the word “informant” is for some reason preferable to the word “spy” are entirely semantic and don’t speak to whether government agents sending someone undercover to extract information from the Trump campaign was an abuse of power.Bonnie Ideenoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7739601669247573025.post-30498473901147636022018-06-02T18:38:20.034-07:002018-06-02T18:38:20.034-07:00Republican politicians know that the Republican ba...Republican politicians know that the Republican base is tuned in to conservative media and hearing these messages that the Mueller investigation is a sham, that this is a project of the ‘deep state’ to bring down the president. If a Republican politician breaks with that, then all of a sudden, it looks like he’s siding with the enemy. In that environment, politicians have to choose sides. And if you’re a Republican, do you choose to side with the media that all your base listen to, or do you choose to side with the one they all oppose?<br /><br />Though it’s too early to know how the Mueller investigation will conclude, I doubt Trump will face the same fate Nixon did.<br /><br />It’s just very hard to imagine a future in which … all of a sudden, Republicans are going to say, ‘Oh, wait, we now need to listen to this independent counsel who most of the conservative media have been undermining and delegitimizing for months now. I just I don’t know what incentive there would be for them to do that. And I don’t think that we’ve seen any behavior from Republicans in the past 14 months that suggests that they’re willing to do that.<br /><br />If we lived in the same kind of fractured media world during Watergate, where there is a Fox News and there is Rush Limbaugh, Breitbart, and the Daily Caller, I think Nixon would have lasted in the presidency for several more months, if not for his entire term.<br /><br />And fir the same logic Trump is safe if he doesn’t make tactical errors.<br />Jakehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/10775328073721361297noreply@blogger.com