Analysis: Conservatives criticize Trump, but softly, in code (AP)

[corbe]

Analysis: Conservatives criticize Trump, but softly, in code

By CALVIN WOODWARD, Associated Press
 
46 mins ago
 
WASHINGTON (AP) — Like whisperers in a tempest, conservative-minded officials across the breadth of Donald Trump's government are letting it be known what they think of him, and some of it isn't pretty.

But they are speaking oh so softly, in a kind of code, to a country that may only hear shouting.

Jim Mattis is just the latest in a string of leading lights from the conservative establishment to throw shade at Trump. As with others — the chief justice, a special counsel, various Republican lawmakers who hope to have a political future — the ex-Pentagon chief's words are subtle, filtered through notions of duty, decorum, deference to history, the greater good.

Crack the code and you can sometimes see deep discomfort with Trump, the contours of a searing repudiation. In the view of many institutionalists of the right as well as the left, he is bulldozing values that America holds dear.

Yet the negativity is couched in words of moderation and caution. What effect does that have in Trump's America?

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http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/analysis-conservatives-criticize-trump-but-softly-in-code/ar-AAGL0dn?ocid=ientp

[TomSea]

Yep, it's so. I wonder, without naming names if some "allies", allies that some of us probably like, think things like "Whooaaa there".

You know, there was and is a soccer player Wayne Rooney who in his youth, looked like he'd be one of the great ones and probably is to an extent but they said that the reason he was so good was because of his "feral" or "wild" type nature.  Maybe that's the way it is with Trump, a lot of things, I thoroughly agree with and I wasn't sure if we'd ever see a president do those kinds of things so for that, good!

I like Trump but I'm no "boiler plate" Trumper but I certainly love a good deal of his presidency.

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           Conservatives would rather not go there.

[TomSea]

Calvin Woodward has written for Newsbusters:

https://www.newsbusters.org/journalists/calvin-woodward

https://muckrack.com/calvin-woodward

Seems like he has "conservative credentials" even if I did not know the name.....