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Campbell's Split Pea was very bad soup. Very, very bad, let me tell you.

 

I'm picturing the end of A Face In The Crowd, where suddenly all the big shots ghost on Lonesome Rhoades and his Fighters For Fuller banquet.

 

He was both the author and chief justice of the worst decision in the history of the court, one that helped set the stage for civil war. I think it is fair to heap blame at his feet.

 

Exactly. And, for better or worse, in politics, presentation is, if not everything, well, then, it counts for an awful lot. I didn't agree with all of Obama's policies, but I liked him. I never thought he was arrogant, just well-spoken, and he presented himself, and his office, well.

And that alone gets you an awful lot of goodwill, and, when needed, sometimes, even forgiveness -- even from the media.

I'm convinced that this factor alone is a significant part of Trump's continual difficulties.

 

"Business leaders lining up to serve" is one more lie among so many that it barely makes a blip.

 

Analysis | The Daily 202: False moral equivalency is not a bug of Trumpism. It’s a feature.

 

I assume there are some Russian underworld figures who can find a seat at the table.

 

Oh please. Did you take a look at that crowd? Did you see anyone that looked like scholarly southern history professors? Did you hear the things they were chanting (hint: it sure as hell wasn't "Preserve History!")?

Sorry, but the notion that any of those who travelled to Charlottesville for this event were motivated only by love of southern heritage and concern for "preservation of history" is laughable bunk. The event was dreamed up and organized by white supremacists, marketed directly to white supremacists, the chants were all the usual white supremacist sort of nonsense. The whole thing was nothing but a racism convention from the beginning.

 

Maybe his angered showed who he really is.