It never ceases to amaze me that President Trump can tweet his foolishness, but then reads one well written speech off a teleprompter and conservatives compare him to President Reagan.
One after one, writers for NRO were falling all over themselves in gushing praise of Trump's speech - Deroy Murdock, Rich Lowry, Matthew Continetti, David French, Michael Brendan Dougherty, John O'Sullivan, Jonah Goldberg and their entire editorial board.
These conservatives are easily fooled. I am not.
It's hard for me to take Trump seriously as a defender of Western civilization when he consistently denigrates the United States while praising dictators as he did when he excused Vladimir Putin's killing of journalists when he said America does a lot of killing too. Let us also remember that after Turkish President Erdogan crushed a coup a year ago it was Trump who said, "When the world looks at how bad the United States is, and then we go and talk about civil liberties, I don’t think we’re a very good messenger." So how is Trump a very good messenger when it comes to defending Western Civilization? He is just as steeped in moral equivalence as President Obama.
It is only a matter of time when without the safety of a teleprompter that Trump will once again denigrate America while praising the virtues of authoritarianism and totalitarianism. And conservatives won't bat an eyelash.
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