We can be the party of Eisenhower, or the party of the conspiracist Alex Jones. We can applaud Officer Goodman or side with the mob he outwitted. We cannot do both.
The only truth is that Trump didn't fit in with the Republican party because he didn't want to become just another corrupt, establishment career politician. He actually wanted to do things, not just say one thing to voters and then do whatever the corrupt establishment told him to.
He and his fellow RINOs want to take back their party and purge it of MAGA people. At a time when Republicans should be uniting against Biden, he is trying to weaken the resistance from the right.
If and when the House sends its article of impeachment against Trump to the Senate, I will be a juror in his trial, and thus what I can say in advance is limited. But no matter what happens in that trial, the Republican Party faces a separate reckoning. Until last week, many party leaders and consultants thought they could preach the Constitution while winking at QAnon. They can’t. The GOP must reject conspiracy theories or be consumed by them. Now is the time to decide what this party is about.
The newly elected Representative Marjorie Taylor Greene is cuckoo for Cocoa Puffs. She once ranted that “there’s a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity to take this global cabal of Satan-worshiping pedophiles out, and I think we have the president to do it.” During her campaign, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy had a choice: disavow her campaign and potentially lose a Republican seat, or welcome her into his caucus and try to keep a lid on her ludicrous ideas. McCarthy failed the leadership test and sat on the sidelines. Now in Congress, Greene isn’t going to just back McCarthy as leader and stay quiet. She’s already announced plans to try to impeach Joe Biden on his first full day as president. She’ll keep making fools out of herself, her constituents, and the Republican Party.
Republicans must repudiate the nonsense that has set our party on fire. Putting it out will take courage—and I don’t mean merely political courage. This week, after realizing that some Capitol insurrectionists wanted to capture the vice president, several Republican House members said privately that they believed a vote to impeach the president would put their lives, or the lives of their families, at risk. That is not the “constituent engagement” that elected officials are duty-bound to deal with on a daily basis. That is simply tyranny, just from the bottom up, instead of the top down. When arsonists are inside our house, can we just stand by and hope that they’ll depart quietly?
Trump’s “Stop the steal” lie lit the fuse for the January 6 riot. For nine weeks, the president consistently lied that he had “won in a landslide.”
Did Nebraska re-elect him last November so that he could go around opposing Trump and the MAGA agenda?
More like a rotten seed in your effort to enrich yourself via corruption, mr ben sissy. Fuck right off.
Sasse took a shot at Alex Jones.
Whats this comparison with Eisenhower..
Eisenhower invaded Normandy which was full of socialist Nazi terrorists
Trump invaded GOP and US politics which was and is full of socialist liberal terrorists.
The only truth is that Trump didn't fit in with the Republican party because he didn't want to become just another corrupt, establishment career politician. He actually wanted to do things, not just say one thing to voters and then do whatever the corrupt establishment told him to.
It’s been well established that Sasse’s head is firmly rooted up his ass.
He also claims that he has never heard any mention of election fraud.
I wonder what's in Sasse's history?
Wow. Such lack of awareness.
So like why aren't Nebraska pedes flooding his office with calls?
He is an idiot.
He and his fellow RINOs want to take back their party and purge it of MAGA people. At a time when Republicans should be uniting against Biden, he is trying to weaken the resistance from the right.
Did Nebraska re-elect him last November so that he could go around opposing Trump and the MAGA agenda?