{"id":15311,"date":"2018-04-14T09:40:47","date_gmt":"2018-04-14T14:40:47","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/?p=15311"},"modified":"2018-04-14T09:40:47","modified_gmt":"2018-04-14T14:40:47","slug":"separating-institutions-from-slime","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/2018\/04\/14\/separating-institutions-from-slime\/","title":{"rendered":"Separating Institutions From Slime"},"content":{"rendered":"

On WaPo’s The Plum Line<\/strong><\/em> Gary Sargent believes he sees the public repudiating<\/a> Trump for his belittling of certain governmental institutions in a recent poll<\/a>:<\/p>\n

\"\"<\/a>It\u2019s tempting to see this polling as little more than a reflection of Trump\u2019s deep unpopularity. But numbers this stark suggest something else may be going on: that the depth of Trump\u2019s contempt for our institutions and the rule of law is becoming clear to the public, and Americans are recoiling at it.<\/p>\n

This contempt is everywhere. You see it in Trump\u2019s double standard toward due process,\u00a0documented by Adam Serwer<\/a>, in which he rages at the raiding of his lawyer\u2019s office while cheering on law enforcement abuses directed at Muslims, immigrants and African Americans. You see it in his instinct toward firing Rosenstein for the express reason\u00a0that he is conducting himself by the book, rather than politicizing law enforcement to Trump\u2019s benefit<\/a>. Trump views law enforcement as primarily\u00a0an instrument for carrying out his political will. He has told us this in his own words\u00a0again<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0again<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0again<\/a>.<\/p>\n

Trump\u2019s rage-tweets about Comey confirm all of this. And the public repudiation of Trump comes after he and his allies have waged an extraordinary public campaign in the right-wing media and in Congress, both of which have been weaponized to create a fictional narrative designed to shield Trump from accountability, by casting the Russia investigation and the institutional processes undergirding it as hopelessly corrupted to their core. Yet the public is siding with the rule of law and our institutions, and against Trump. As the Trump-Comey feud comes to the fore, this is the larger narrative unfolding in the background.<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

Personally, I’m not all that impressed with a mere 65% of the surveyed agreeing with the investigation, but it’s better than it might be. I’m also not sure I see how Gary connects that poll, which is mainly concerned with Mueller’s investigation, with the greater question of the public’s general understanding of the importance of these institutions, and how we structure government at the highest levels.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

On WaPo’s The Plum Line Gary Sargent believes he sees the public repudiating Trump for his belittling of certain governmental institutions in a recent poll: It\u2019s tempting to see this polling as little more than a reflection of Trump\u2019s deep unpopularity. But numbers this stark suggest something else may be \u2026 Continue reading → <\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-15311","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15311","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=15311"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15311\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":15313,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/15311\/revisions\/15313"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=15311"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=15311"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/huewhite.com\/umb\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=15311"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}