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    How the Firing of the FBI Director Tests Conservatives

    James Comey’s dismissal asks the right which they value more: defending a president whose policy agenda they generally support or defending the norms that preserve liberal democracy.
    by Peter Beinart May 10, 2017 3 minutes
    Source: Kevin Lamarque / Reuters

    Since Donald Trump won the Republican nomination close to a year ago, conservative responses to him have fallen into three broad categories: pro-Trump, anti-Trump and anti-anti-Trump. The firing of James Comey is no exception.

    The pro-Trumpers, right-wing populists like , and the writers at , said Comey deserved to be fired for going soft on Hillary Clinton.  This, despite the fact that the Trump cited to justify the firing, by Deputy Attorney General Rod Rosenstein, actually criticized Comey for being too tough on Clinton, in particular, by “releas[ing]

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