Rachel Maddow and Liz Cheney agree! Charlie Sykes and AOC agree! We have to get rid of Trump and vanquish the MAGA Republican Party on every level. We are fighting against a brilliantly manipulative sociopath and the billionaires backing the Heritage Society. The only way we have to do this is to back the reelection of President Biden. H…
Rachel Maddow and Liz Cheney agree! Charlie Sykes and AOC agree! We have to get rid of Trump and vanquish the MAGA Republican Party on every level. We are fighting against a brilliantly manipulative sociopath and the billionaires backing the Heritage Society. The only way we have to do this is to back the reelection of President Biden. He is pretty much the centrist that the country wants. Trump will help us. He is getting crazier and more dangerous by the day. His apologists are really bending into pretzels or else they are already as crazy and dangerous as the new House Speaker. Keep the pressure on. Jack Smith will help. Send money. Talk to your Fox News friends. they don't get to hear the worse of him.
Hearing Rachel Maddow interview Liz Cheney -- after the lead-in recounting how she had formed her own political identity around an "anti-Cheney" axis -- was truly heartwarming. That people who disagree on just about everything else agree on the menace of Trump should do something to shake the Trump apologists out of their subservience. Judge Luttig teaming up with Lawrence Tribe is another sign that maybe, just maybe the anti-Trumpers (of all political persuasions) have a point.
Instead, the Trump apologists try to identify some nefarious reason for Cheney, Luttig, Kinzinger, George Conway, Charlie Sykes et al. to be taking the stance they have.
I think the reason I've been anti-Trump since 2015 is this: I'm not confident that I know what the best policy choices are -- i.e., which good things should be traded off for other good things when you can't have them all, or what is the most effective way to achieve what everyone agrees is good. But I am more confident that I can recognize abysmal character when I see it. And at some point, bad character really is more damaging than suboptimal policy.
Rachel Maddow and Liz Cheney agree! Charlie Sykes and AOC agree! We have to get rid of Trump and vanquish the MAGA Republican Party on every level. We are fighting against a brilliantly manipulative sociopath and the billionaires backing the Heritage Society. The only way we have to do this is to back the reelection of President Biden. He is pretty much the centrist that the country wants. Trump will help us. He is getting crazier and more dangerous by the day. His apologists are really bending into pretzels or else they are already as crazy and dangerous as the new House Speaker. Keep the pressure on. Jack Smith will help. Send money. Talk to your Fox News friends. they don't get to hear the worse of him.
Hearing Rachel Maddow interview Liz Cheney -- after the lead-in recounting how she had formed her own political identity around an "anti-Cheney" axis -- was truly heartwarming. That people who disagree on just about everything else agree on the menace of Trump should do something to shake the Trump apologists out of their subservience. Judge Luttig teaming up with Lawrence Tribe is another sign that maybe, just maybe the anti-Trumpers (of all political persuasions) have a point.
Instead, the Trump apologists try to identify some nefarious reason for Cheney, Luttig, Kinzinger, George Conway, Charlie Sykes et al. to be taking the stance they have.
I think the reason I've been anti-Trump since 2015 is this: I'm not confident that I know what the best policy choices are -- i.e., which good things should be traded off for other good things when you can't have them all, or what is the most effective way to achieve what everyone agrees is good. But I am more confident that I can recognize abysmal character when I see it. And at some point, bad character really is more damaging than suboptimal policy.