On 8/20/2022 9:34 AM, Technobarbarian wrote:
"Every FBI director has been a white Republican male — complicating Trump’s grudge match
Bob Brigham
August 19, 2022
Every FBI director has been a white Republican male — complicating Trump’s grudge match
Donald Trump is attacking one of the most traditionally conservative institutions in America by lashing out at the Federal Bureau of
Investigation following the search of Mar-a-Lago.
"Of all the weird and historically discordant moments and news stories
of the Donald Trump era, few seem stranger than watching the former
president and his allies demonize the F.B.I. as some sort of rogue
“woke” Democratic deep state mob," historian Garrett Graff wrote in The New York Times.
Some Republicans have even called to "defund the FBI."
"Historically, though, the F.B.I. has been arguably the most culturally conservative and traditionally white Christian institution in the entire
U.S. government. It’s an institution so culturally conservative, even by the standards of law enforcement, that Democratic presidents have never
felt comfortable — or politically emboldened — enough to nominate a Democrat to head the bureau," Graff explained. "That’s right: Far from being a bastion of progressive thinking, every single director of the
F.B.I. has been a Republican-aligned official, going all the way back to
its creation. Such history suggests that the issue here is Mr. Trump and
not institutional bias."
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TB
For a long time now republican has very little connection to do with conservatism. That's what RINO is all about.
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Liberals fear Donald Trump more than they fear climate change.
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