What should be and what is are (and always have been) two completely different things.
While I don't condone or agree with the hostile, public incivility that some have recently displayed towards Sarah Huckabee Sanders and Kirstjen Nielsen, I have to say: What the hell do they expect?
Their behavior is completely offensive and egregious to many people.They must know that. They'd have to be stupid not to. But they aren't stupid. Sanders and Nielsen are both intelligent people. They should be able to do the math and expect push-back from those that disagree with them. So what's the problem?
I don't know. But the response from those that disagree with their public statements and actions are totally predictable. The fact that Sanders, Nielsen and their ilk didn't anticipate these totally foreseeable reactions betrays any number of cognitive faults in their thinking processes, not the least of which is a sense of entitlement that is both wholly undeserved in their cases and completely anti-American.
Many of the actions of members of the Trump administration are completely tone-deaf, "let them eat cake moments" that are just beyond belief for their gross insensitivity.
Seriously. Kirstjen Nielsen chooses to go to a Mexican restaurant right after defending a highly controversial policy concerning immigrants at the Mexican border! That's just stupid. Why didn't she go out for Italian or Chinese? Rookie move all the way. Seriously.
Hello! "What were you thinking, Kirstjen? Oh, I guess you weren't."
And Melania Trump's decision to wear the "I don't care ..." jacket was also completely tone-deaf and insensitive. So dumb.
I know she didn't have it on when she was actually at the detainment facilities, but we all know she had it on both before and immediately after. Undoubtedly in a failed attempt at damage control, her "spokesperson" says (because she apparently can't speak for herself) that it wasn't a message, but not too long later her hubby immediately contradicts her by saying it was a message. They can't even get on the same page for chrissakes!
I'm sure Marie Antoinette is rolling over in her grave right now telling Team-Trump to "dial it back a bit!"
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And please don't troll me about the Marie Antoinette story being apocryphal. I know. I was there. Just get the point and move on.