The Romney Stage of Grief
24th September 2019
Scott Adams has come up with a taxonomy of the various stages of a Trump Impeachable Offense, by analogy to the well-known Stages of Grief:
- Bombshell report in either the New York Times or the Washington Post. ‘We can’t name any of our sources , but it’s A BOMBSHELL!’
- The softening — turns out that the situation isn’t exactly the way it was originally reported.
- The inversion — turns out that whatever took place is perfectly legal and in line with what Presidents are supposed to be doing.
- Carl Bernstein is trotted out to squawk that it’s Worse Than Watergate.
- Mitt Romney is trotted out to show that there’s at least one (nominal) Republican who is Deeply Disturbed by the situation.
- The media try to flog life back in the story by shouting ‘It really happened! It did! You’re talking about it wrong!’
He goes through this about halfway through the linked podcast.