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Hical's avatar

Wondering aloud where any of us would be right now without the insistent and persistent voice of Liz Cheney.

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Cipollone should testify, if for no other reason than to atone for the grievous damage he did to the country in serving as a defense lawyer for Trump during his first Impeachment trial. The guy is kind of a dirtbag, but when it was no longer fun and games, he seemed to realize it was time to stop playing. As JVL said in yesterday's Next Level, Cassidy Hutchinson wasn't John Dean, but Cipollone could be.

It's tough for Republicans, though I don't have any real sympathy for them. They realize internally, if they won't admit it publicly, that Democrats and Never-Trumpers had this guy pegged from the beginning, and were right all along. What makes it more obnoxious, though, is that most Republicans had this guy pegged from the beginning, too. What changed was that he beat Hillary Clinton in November of 2016. Rubio, Cruz, McConnell, Paul Ryan, JD Vance, Kellyanne Conway all of these guys knew Trump was an unfit bastard, and said it publicly and on the record, at least through the primaries, and for some even up to the election. I don't think any critics of Trump were more scathing and accurate than Vance. But then Trump became President, and the descent into the abyss, halting at first, became a full-on, enthusiastic embrace of the darkness, the acceptance of every lie, the defense of every outrage. Because the Republican voters demand fighters against the elites and the un-American libs, and a party that at least had some sort of vision became a party of amoral trolls, alternative facts, and nihilism.

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