Thanks SO much for doing this. We desperately need the reminder. We also need to ask ourselves what can cause a moment of honesty and risk to evaporate into thin air? Why did these people so thoroughly and immediately recant? I for one would be interested in your take on that question.
Thanks SO much for doing this. We desperately need the reminder. We also need to ask ourselves what can cause a moment of honesty and risk to evaporate into thin air? Why did these people so thoroughly and immediately recant? I for one would be interested in your take on that question.
Money. All Ronna Romney McDaniel had to do was tell them you will not receive a donation for your campaign from the GOP national committee. Interesting note, a reporter for the Washington Post, announced on Twitter that GOP National Committee "has made a $1.5 million to Trump's legal defense fund." Wonder how the donors feel?
My conspiracy minded SyFy answer - Trump/Putin has some really, really bad dirt/threats against them. Then again, I'm beginning to think that is the answer. I hate to use the Hitler card, but I will - one reason Hitler (and Stalin and Mao and any mob boss) got away with it was to go after not merely the dissenters but their families as well. How else to explain how people that supposedly had some semblance of decency are staying quiet? I'm not just talking about McCarthy, et al, but also the ones who did resign or got fired. Their silence is deafening.
As much as I'd like to blame Putin for things like the Insurrection, that craziness is entirely home grown. Yes, Putin did a lot of disinformation and interference during the 2016 election cycle, but by 2020 he didn't need to do anything. The craziness is coming from inside our American house.
Thanks SO much for doing this. We desperately need the reminder. We also need to ask ourselves what can cause a moment of honesty and risk to evaporate into thin air? Why did these people so thoroughly and immediately recant? I for one would be interested in your take on that question.
Money. All Ronna Romney McDaniel had to do was tell them you will not receive a donation for your campaign from the GOP national committee. Interesting note, a reporter for the Washington Post, announced on Twitter that GOP National Committee "has made a $1.5 million to Trump's legal defense fund." Wonder how the donors feel?
My conspiracy minded SyFy answer - Trump/Putin has some really, really bad dirt/threats against them. Then again, I'm beginning to think that is the answer. I hate to use the Hitler card, but I will - one reason Hitler (and Stalin and Mao and any mob boss) got away with it was to go after not merely the dissenters but their families as well. How else to explain how people that supposedly had some semblance of decency are staying quiet? I'm not just talking about McCarthy, et al, but also the ones who did resign or got fired. Their silence is deafening.
As much as I'd like to blame Putin for things like the Insurrection, that craziness is entirely home grown. Yes, Putin did a lot of disinformation and interference during the 2016 election cycle, but by 2020 he didn't need to do anything. The craziness is coming from inside our American house.
The pollsters got to work and discovered the rightwing base was loyal to Trump and not the Constitution. Game Over.