Loyal to country, or loyal to Trump?

It shouldn’t be a tough question, even for Republicans. Yet many of them still fail to come up with the right answer.

Unless you’ve been living under a rock at the bottom of the Grand Canyon, you know what popular vote loser Donald Trump did a few days ago. No, not that. Or that. Or even that. This is about how he gave the Russians “code word” level intelligence developed by Israel about ISIS. The term “code word” signifies intelligence that’s even more secret than Top Secret. Double Top Secret, perhaps? And Trump did it as part of a brag—“I get great intel”—that sounded eerily like the kind a 5-year-old boy would make. You can almost picture him bouncing in his chair, asking the two Sergeis if they wanna see it.

It’s not necessary to add to the chorus of righteous outrage and sincere concern for the fate of our country that has arisen in response to Trump’s incompetence, not to mention his disregard for the basic principles of checks and balances. Others have done that quite well. Let’s focus here on how Trump’s defenders have reacted. The quotation above from Bill O’Reilly protege Jesse Watters about what a “loyal person” would do encapsulates this perfectly.