In an opinion piece today on the enemies of liberal democracy, David Brooks quoted Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn. In a commencement address at Harvard, Solzhenitsyn said “A decline in courage may be the most striking feature that an outside observer notices in the West today.”
Most Republican Senators in Washington know that Trump is unfit to be president. Certainly McConnell knows that. Lindsey Graham knows that. Marco Rubio knows that. Ted Cruz or J.D. Vance might not know, but there must be others. Yet of all those Republican Senators, I only know of two who have publicly announced they will not vote for Trump–Murkowski and Romney.
It doesn’t even take courage. Nobody is going to poison a Senator or put a Senator in the gulag. The worst that can happen might be a lost election.
Is it really a lack of courage, or is it a desire to remain in power. They are incredibly lazy. Supporting Trump is easier than actually working to do something positive. But it's also like playing with feces. It's disgusting.
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ReplyDeleteI agree—with David
ReplyDeleteI'd say the desire to remain in power shows a fear of being out of power, so in that respect it represents a lack of courage.
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