Opinion writerPresident Trump has an extraordinary ability to persuade his supporters to upend their prior beliefs about a whole range of questions. Today, the president is testing the limits of his supporters’ moral flexibility yet again. And I’ve seen it many times, I’ve had many friends involved in this stuff, it’s called “flipping” and it almost ought to be illegal. All the outrageous and appalling things you’ve heard Trump say shouldn’t keep you from being shocked at this. But Obama never asked them to suddenly offer a full-throated defense of something morally abhorrent simply because the president thought it might be good for him.

Source: Washington Post August 23, 2018 16:41 UTC