The anti-Trump “Resistance” has devastated core American institutions and broken longstanding political norms in seeking to defeat and now oust from office President Donald Trump, said Kimberley Strassel, a columnist for the Wall Street Journal and member of the Journal’s editorial board.
“And this, to me, is the irony, right? We’ve been told for three years that Donald Trump is wrecking institutions,” Strassel said in an interview with The Epoch Times for the “American Thought Leaders” program.
“But in terms of real wreckage to institutions, it’s not on Donald Trump that public faith in the FBI and the Department of Justice has precipitously fallen. That’s because of Jim Comey and Andy McCabe. It’s not on Donald Trump that the Senate confirmation process for the Supreme Court is in ashes after what happened to Brett Kavanaugh. It’s not on Donald Trump that we are turning impeachment into a partisan political tool.”
The damage inflicted by the anti-Trump Resistance is the subject of Strassel’s new book, “Resistance (At All Costs): How Trump Haters Are Breaking America.”
Strassel uses the term “haters” deliberately, to differentiate this demographic from Trump’s “critics.”
In Strassel’s view, all thoughtful critics of Trump—and she counts herself among them—would look at Trump the same way that they have examined past presidents—namely, to call him out when he does something wrong, but also laud him when he does something right.
“The ‘haters’ can’t abide nuance. To the Resistance, any praise—no matter how qualified—of Trump is tantamount to American betrayal,” Strassel writes in “Resistance (At All Costs).”
She told The Epoch Times: “Up until the point at which Donald Trump was elected, what happened when political parties lost is that they would retreat, regroup, lick their wounds, talk about what they did wrong.
“That’s not what happened this time around. Instead, you had people who essentially said we should have won.”
From the moment Trump was elected, this group believed Trump to be an illegitimate president and therefore felt they could use whatever means necessary to remove him from office, Strassel said.
By Jan Jekielek
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