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It is only in your partisan imagination that there is a "Trumpian ideological purity test."
Conservative naivete

Every Trump biographer has stated Mr Trump demands loyalty. It is not me who made that up. It is based on their perceptions of the man. That I am able to see the same from a public perspective ... well ... I am not naive.

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My defense of him against the attempt to impeach him is because it is a political attack on him.
How is breaking the law a political attack????

Here is the problem with your comment. If you believe the Democrats are trying to impeach purely for political reasons then why didn't they do it in the first 3 months he was in office? Why wait until a whistleblower alerts the world to a criminal offense? if it is political.

The House could have overlooked all of his non-presidential behavior, because it is not impeachable, but it can not overlook a blatant criminal offense which has a ton of supporting and corroborating evidence including not only Trump's own staff admitting it, but Mr Trump admitting he did the deed. The House will draw up articles of impeachment. If the trial was held inside any courtroom in America, he would be convicted. In the Senate as of now ... probably not. Maybe it's true what some former GOP congressmen have said, that if the vote was in secret, they would get rid of him.

So you claim you are not support Mr trump but you give him a pass on all he has done ... I mean that sounds like you support him in what ever he does and says .... but if you should see the light for what he is, what the hell is wrong with supporting VP Pence????? Doesn't VP Pence have the same agenda as real conservatives? wouldn't he have a more rational approach to trade, foreign affairs, domestic issues??? So I don;t buy your, I do not support Mr trump bit.

ignorance is the enemy
without equality there is no liberty
America can survive bad policy, but not destruction of our Democratic institutions