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What Happened to Alan Dershowitz?

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Deshowitz basically is a legal nerd who fails to let political ideology cloud his legal judgement. People are upset he isn’t toeing an imagined party line.

Sometimes I think republicans tolerate dissent a little more gracefully amongst themselves than many dems, ironically, given dems present themselves as the party of tolerance.

Republicans are currently playing the role of "ideological big tent" party with a mix of libertarians, religious conservatives, and blue-collar workers. There's a lot of disagreement within the party and between its newcomers, but they are banding together because they are led by an unapologetic fighter who is completely unlike their previous leadership.

FDR once played that role forming a "big tent" for the Democrats under similar political circumstances.

The law is the law - and what is right under the eyes of the law does not change because of the politics of the hour.

Every change Obama did under the guise of executive power will come back to haunt the Democrats, and every change Trump does under the guise of executive power will haunt the Republicans in 2-6 years - there is an old adage in politics - "Never give yourself more power than you want your political opponents to have.", which I feel is very germane here.

From reddit, which is a very left leaning site, the amount of hatred and distortion of logic is insane. On one thread, a redditor proudly proclaimed that he distanced himself from relative who are "nice people overall" because they support Trump. Media articles & podcasts have so exaggerated Trump's perceived threat that some people literally think he's an American hitler. I feel the truth is more that he has a brash and selfish personality and he does not care about the opinion of the 1/2 of the country that didn't elect him.

My left leaning friends are pretty sure Trump is the devil, my right leaning friends think he's the best President ever.

I'm sitting in the middle going "What the hell are these people smoking?" From my perspective he's largely a do-nothing President so far - and mostly, what changes he's tried to wrought have been so ham-handed as to be virtually useless.

What happened to all the people Dershowitz is criticizing? Why does Dershowitz need to agree with the mainstream Left?

He got red-pilled after having been blue pilled for a while. I guess he's purple now.

> But is Dershowitz really a turncoat?

The question of what 'happened' to Dershowitz answers itself: the left considers him a traitor if he dares agree with Trump on anything, no matter whether Trump has legal standing or not.

He's simply expressing views contrary to his peers, which seems unbelievable to liberals because liberals don't seem to allow that anymore.

No one seems to allow that anymore and that's a big problem.

I wish we'd stop calling Democrats liberal and Republicans conservative. They're not, they haven't been for a while. Neither party represents either of those things anymore. You might even argue that they never did.

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