He enjoys it
Here’s a striking detail from a piece by Gabriel Sherman on rifts in Team Trump over the whole kidnapping babies thing:
Trump’s decision to double down on the family-separation policy is sowing chaos in the West Wing, two sources close to the White House told me. For the second day in a row, Press Secretary Sarah Huckabee Sanders—already eyeing an exit, though not for months—did not hold an on-camera briefing with reporters. “She’s tired of taking on water for something she doesn’t believe in,” a friend of Sanders told me. “She continues to have a frustration that the policies are all over the map,” another person close to her said. “It’s not a good look for Sarah.” According to sources, if Sanders were to leave earlier than expected, Trump is high on former Fox & Friends anchor Heather Nauert, who’s currently the State Department spokesperson, to be his next press secretary. “Trump loves her,” one former administration official said. (The White House did not respond to a request for comment.)
Meanwhile, as the border crisis spirals, the absence of a coordinated policy process has allowed the most extreme administration voices to fill the vacuum. White House senior policy adviser Stephen Miller has all but become the face of the issue, a development that even supporters of Trump’s “zero-tolerance” position say is damaging the White House. “Stephen actually enjoys seeing those pictures at the border,” an outside White House adviser said. “He’s a twisted guy, the way he was raised and picked on. There’s always been a way he’s gone about this. He’s Waffen-SS.”
He enjoys seeing the pictures.
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” “She’s tired of taking on water for something she doesn’t believe in,” …“It’s not a good look for Sarah.” ”
But she’s fine lying about everything else she’s spoken of up to now. I don’t think that’s a good look for Sarah either.
It’s good she’s capable of drawing a line somewhere. Baby steps.
I suppose so, if she’s going to remain in a position of any power or influence over anyone whatsoever. It’s still hard for me to wrap my head around people who draw the line that far out, when they’ve supported and advocated policies so loathsome that you just figure they aren’t capable of drawing any line for something being unacceptable.
Apparently there exist consciences smaller in diameter than Planck units without being quite zero dimensional.
Not exactly on topic, but an excerpt of this article is highly applicable to a conversation I see frequently, which goes something like “are you sure you want Trump impeached? That will mean President Pence, and he’s way worse!” The quote:
I’ve no doubt Pence has some awful conservative christian policies he’s dying to unleash, but the problem caused by Trump is his utter lack of interest in anything outside himself. This leaves a yawning void in terms of policy, which can then be filled by whichever flatterer manages to catch his attention. And so he manages to be awful on every front at once, foreign and domestic.
“Apparently there exist consciences smaller in diameter than Planck units without being quite zero dimensional.”
Yes, about the same size as those baby steps I was talking about…
Holms, I think for women, the best that can be said is that Pence won’t be any better. I don’t think it’s any better to have someone who is deliberately trying to take us toward theocratic patriarchy than to have someone who can’t be bothered to learn enough to prevent his policies from leading us into fascist dictatorship. The main possibility I can see for Pence is that he might be better equipped to avoid all out nuclear annihilation.
Pence is competently evil; Trump is incompetent and evil. We’ll be jumping out of the fire into the frying pan…that’s small comfort. And it might give Pence the momentum to win a second term simply by being more presentable than Trump.