Donald Trump could walk into the press room fully naked and reporters would carry on as if nothing were amiss. Any who questioned his sartorial choice or, worse, referenced Barack Obama’s Fox-condemned tan suit, would draw withering ridicule from his official spokesliar. The Trump administration has dialed its up-is-downism to 11 and still the Beltway carries on as if this is politics as usual, even with troops and armored vehicles in the streets.

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In a Twitter back-and-forth with a Red State author, former Republican and author of “It Was All a Lie: How the Republican Party Became Donald Trump” Stuart Stevens tweeted:

Trump is a cartoon of what we on R side often falsely accused the left of being.

He is pro-Putin, believes in a police state, constantly putting the heavy hand of government on private sector, supports tariff and is against free trade. He’s a billionaire upper East side trust fund brat who believes church is where you go every so often to marry a model. His best friend was a child rapist. His idea of family values is talking about how hot his daughters are and how he’d like to date them. He’s a draft dodger who called avoiding STDs his own Vietnam. He constantly mocks the military and picked the town drunk to run the military. He’s a pathological liar.

He’s the most anti-conservative president in American history.

It’s hard to argue with that. Everyone in Trump’s orbit carries on as if troops in the streets, massive corruption, and fawning over Russian dictators is perfectly normal.