The disgusting, divisive depths of DUHnocchio's depravity

James Mattis Denounces [UNpresident Thug-in-Chief], Describes him as a Threat to the Constitution: In an extraordinary condemnation, the former defense secretary backs protesters and says the UNpresident is trying to turn Americans against one another.

"“I have watched this week’s unfolding events, angry and appalled,” Mattis writes. “The words ‘Equal Justice Under Law’ are carved in the pediment of the United States Supreme Court. This is precisely what protesters are rightly demanding. It is a wholesome and unifying demand—one that all of us should be able to get behind. We must not be distracted by a small number of lawbreakers. The protests are defined by tens of thousands of people of conscience who are insisting that we live up to our values—our values as people and our values as a nation.” [Unfortunately, many police officers enact the prejudices of insidious far-wrong RepuGNicans who have infiltrated politics, law, and business in the US.] He goes on, “We must reject and hold accountable those in office who would make a mockery of our Constitution.”

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Divider-in-Chief "is the first president in my lifetime who does not try to unite the American people—does not even pretend to try. Instead, he tries to divide us,” Mattis writes. “We are witnessing the consequences of three years of this deliberate [malign] effort. We are witnessing the consequences of three years without mature leadership. We can unite without him, drawing on the strengths inherent in our civil society. This will not be easy, as the past few days have shown, but we owe it to our fellow citizens; to past generations that bled to defend our promise; and to our children.”

He goes on to contrast the American ethos of unity with Nazi ideology. “Instructions given by the military departments to our troops before the Normandy invasion reminded soldiers that ‘The Nazi slogan for destroying us … was “Divide and Conquer.” Our American answer is “In Union there is Strength.”’ We must summon that unity to surmount this crisis—confident that we are better than our politics.”

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“When I joined the military, some 50 years ago,” he writes, “I swore an oath to support and defend the Constitution. Never did I dream that troops taking that same oath would be ordered under any circumstance to violate the Constitutional rights of their fellow citizens—much less to provide a bizarre photo op for the elected commander-in-chief, with military leadership standing alongside.”
https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/06/james-mattis-denounces-trump-protests-militarization/612640/ .

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[Unsurprisingly, Mattis understates the disgusting depths of DUHnocchio's depravity.]
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History Will Judge the Complicit: Why have Republican RepuGNican leaders abandoned their principles in support of an immoral and dangerous UNpresident?
https://www.theatlantic.com/magazine/archive/2020/07/trumps-collaborators/612250/ .

[My bet? A combination of short-and-curlies fear, greed, power-hunger, and plain old malevolent attitudes.]