Actions have consequences, even for celebrity professors used to being treated like aristocracy. Friend and reader P.E.C. pointed us to a story about Harvard Law professor Alan Dershowitz being shunned by friends on Martha's Vineyard recently after many months of his defense of neo-fascist scofflaw Donald "Rump" Trump. Dershowitz, a frequent guest on the Fux Channel, complained about the shunning in a petulant "editorial" last week in The Hill, where he attacked Rep. Maxine Waters and other Rump resisters for their in-your-face approach to Rump appointees.
What irks Dershowitz is people who once thought of him as a somewhat eccentric, left-of-center professor are now seeing him increasingly as a Trumpist apologist. He's argued against a Special Prosecutor for Rump, even in the face of mounting evidence of his consciousness of guilt and obstruction of a lawful investigation into Russian meddling in the elections. In one trip to Washington, Dershowitz even had a private dinner with Rump at the White (Supremacist) House.
We don't have the slightest sympathy for Dershowitz, who wants to curry favor with the vile Rump cult while expecting that his progressive friends at home would give him a pass. That's the attitude of an entitled, arrogant jerk, which will make him fit right in with his new friends in Washington.
BONUS:
Nobody knows what's like— Ragnarok Lobster (@eclecticbrotha) July 3, 2018
to be the Dersh Man
to be the worst, man
denying Trump's lies https://t.co/TNGH4cCIn9
Dershowitz waited until the Trump administration is caging children to whine about the effect on his social life?— Schooley (@Rschooley) July 3, 2018
when Alan Dershowitz arrives at the Vineyard all the little whales on people’s shorts pointedly turn in the other direction— Alexandra Petri (@petridishes) July 3, 2018
Please say a prayer for Alan Dershowitz. His friends on Martha's Vineyard are being mean to him. https://t.co/CZaJta3CiG— Tommy Vietor (@TVietor08) July 2, 2018
What kind of world do we live in when Alan Dershowitz gets side eyes at Martha's Vineyard and Sarah Sanders is politely asked to leave a Red Hen restaurant? The end of civility. The end of decency. The end of righteous outrage. Oh, look another baby ripped from his parents...— Wajahat Ali (@WajahatAli) July 2, 2018
Alan Dershowitz needs our thoughts and prayers right now. Due to his support for Trump, his friends are shunning him from their fancy soirées at Martha’s Vineyard. So...— Eugene Gu, MD (@eugenegu) July 2, 2018
Womp womp.
Amen.
