Where do we put him in the GOP’s daisy chain of weakness?
the Utah senator—who voted twice to impeach Donald Trump—is cast as the very last sane Republican, a man who is leaving politics behind because his own party, the GOP, has left him behind.
“In less than a decade,” writes Coppins, “he’d gone from Republican standard-bearer and presidential nominee to party pariah thanks to a series of public clashes with Trump.” What follows is a horror movie of GOP cowardice and hypocrisy, delivered with astonishing specificity: We learn of Sen. Mitch McConnell describing Trump as “an idiot. He doesn’t think when he says things.
Except, as the piece meticulously catalogs, it stopped being a joke in early January of 2021. Sen. Angus King had warned Romney that he’d been briefed by someone in the Pentagon about threats of extreme violence—including some specifically targeting Romney—that might occur during the certification of the Electoral College votes. Romney, forwarding King’s information: “There are calls to burn down your home, Mitch; to smuggle guns into DC, and to storm the Capitol.
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