President Trump’s arch-enemy
appears to be more popular with viewers interested in lifestyles of the rich
and famous than news. As their ratings
continue to collapse, the only good day the cable news nitwits had during the second
quarter of 2018 was the day of the Royal Wedding. When it comes to fluff and pageantry CNN is your
go-to source. When it comes to actual
news, an audience seeking to be well-informed ditch the network faster than a toupee in a hurricane.
In a twisted version of
the TV game show Jeopardy CNN asked, “What happened the last time a President
chose America’s enemies over its friends?”
The lowly cable outfit published
a repulsive piece authored by Manisha Sinha. The Indian-born American historian
at the University of Connecticut suggested, “Donald Trump likes to compare
himself to Andrew Jackson, but the Andrew he really resembles is Andrew
Johnson. What they have in common are delusions of personal grandeur and a
tainted ascent to the presidency. Trump was elected by a minority of the
American electorate, with help from the vagaries of the Electoral College
system and from considerable Russian interference.”
Sinha continues, “Johnson
became President thanks to an assassin's bullet. While Johnson immodestly
compared himself to Jesus and Moses, Trump claims he is the best at everything,
even boasting recently on Twitter that his popularity among Republicans exceeds
that of Abraham Lincoln.”
“Indeed, pundits have
likened today's partisan divisions to those of the Civil War era. But they more
closely resemble the politics of Reconstruction, the period after the war when
for the first time in history, an American president, Johnson, was impeached by
the House of Representatives.”
“But the resemblance
between the two men goes deeper. Johnson's white-supremacist views were blatant
and his policies precipitated a constitutional crisis that put the President at
loggerheads with Congress and his own party, the Republicans.”
This “expert” takes
great care to emphasize the following:
The Republican Party then was the liberal party of
anti-slavery, big government and Lincoln. The Democrats were the party of white
supremacy, Southern slaveholders and states' rights.
Sinha rather
conveniently misses a critical point that is easily substantiated from a host
of reputable sources which document Johnson
was a Democrat. In 1862, Lincoln appointed him Military Governor of
Tennessee. In 1864 Republicans nominated
Johnson for Vice President. Lincoln was
elected to a second term but was assassinated five months later in 1865.
CNN’s biased propaganda
included a video accompanying Sinha’s screed featuring Richard Clarke, former
National Coordinator for Security, Infrastructure Protection and
Counterterrorism for Presidents Reagan and George H. W. Bush.
Clarke, an alleged
liar and obvious Never
Trumper opined, “The U.S role in the world is diminishing and the
overriding thing that connects all of this is diplomatic malpractice by the President
of the United States. He is trying to do
diplomacy, high-stakes diplomacy, in multiple arenas by himself; shooting from
the hip. This is a man who has no
experience in national security, no experience in international diplomacy, who’s
ignoring his advisers and we see the results.”
“Our influence, our
respect around the world is diminishing.
The prospects of war are inching up because of his tweets, because of
his impulse, because of his inexperience and the insistence on doing it
himself.”
