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Kudos to you Sarge, one of the few (the only?) conservatives on the board willing to call a spade a spade, regardless how unpopular it may be around here.
The bar you've set for what you consider treason is clearly higher than mine, and I respect that. The key to that question lies in what caused Trump to go against all of his foreign policy advisors and cabinet members to unilaterally come out in support of Putin against the very agencies he himself is the head of? How can he side with a foreign adversary over the US criminal justice system? The FBI/DOJ run by individuals he himself appointed? What went down in that two-hour closed door meeting, which caused Trump to walk out for the presser looking like a wet, wounded dog? What does Putin have in the fold that may have utterly compromised a sitting US President?
The situation is dire and deeply troubling, and in my view, unprecedented in history.
See, words mean things. During the Obama administration, you had people running around yelling treason all the time. Now it is the same with Trump. Much like the word racist, when it gets used incorrectly over and over, it loses its power. It loses its meaning. I don't think he did anything treasonous. I think what he did was cowardly. Maybe I would feel different if I knew why, but since I don't, all I have is his words and actions in this case. It's my judgement.
See, much like Trump, I didn't (and don't) view Obama as a boogey-man either. I wasn't going around looking for anything that even had the mere look of impropriety and then running to the center square yelling "See? See?" There is no point in it. What does it prove? Nothing.
Everyone knows that the left hates Trump. They hated him when it looked like he would win the Republican nomination, and it has ratcheted up since. Everyone also knows that there is an element of Trump's base that will defend him no matter what he does. You can see both ends of the spectrum here, and you don't have to look real hard. When Obama was President, the left and right were polar opposites. You could see both here, and didn't have to look real hard.
When you determine that our nation has fallen into a game of gotcha politics over everything, where those in favor think the subject is the greatest thing ever, and those opposed speak in apocalyptic terms about the same subject, you can actually sit back and look at things objectively, form your own opinion and actually not get breathlessly outraged over everything you disagree with. When you let your political party determine how you must think and act, you have no objectivity.