Quote:
Originally Posted by devo22
sure, we can blindly demonize these people for being Republicans and counter their positive actions re Trump with "yeah, but ...", but in my book, every Republican who chooses to snap out of it is a positive. It would have been easy for people like Cheney, Kinzinger etc. to just tow the party line, yet they didn't. Hutchinson could have just not testified, yet she did. I'm not cynical enough to just disregard those things, especially since they did them despite the overwhelming backlash they'd face from their own ranks.
|
Cheney and Kirzinger were already strong candidates to be primaried before they voiced their opposition to Trump. These are all political opportunists who have found a path to save their reputations so that they can still get gigs on K street or in the media circles enjoyed by naive liberals.