Michael Flynn, national security adviser, resigns over Russia contacts

[John V]

Interesting that you chose to quote and respond to only half of HM's post.

Why? People do it here all the time. It's so common I don't see that it's interesting. In fact, he did the same to me.

Oh, I get it, you're just casting shade...  

As regards Trump's base, what percentage of those people do you suppose could pass a basic civics/current events/general knowledge exam? That's meant to be a serious question, not snark.

What does my or your supposition on that have to do with anything? I'd likely guess higher than you, and we'd both probably be wrong. As a serious question, that was pretty bad. It would have been OK as snark.

Concerning the point to which HM was responding, your advice to those who oppose Trump's policies is to just roll over and let it happen, even if they think his policy proposals are wrong-headed and possibly disastrous? Seriously?

No. I said business as usual. That means normal opposition, not rolling over.

Would you have counselled Republicans to adopt this strategy eight years ago?

To my recollection that's what they did.

I'm not talking primarily about politicians. Consider the MSM analyzing Trump's every tweet, hate crime hoaxes, violent protests because a smart gay guy dares to be a conservative...I don't recall that from 8 years ago.