My guess is that whatever they do this week @SenCoryGardner and @SenatorCollins will lose their seats. So their choice is about how they’ll be remembered by their children, grandchildren, and history.
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Replying to @JamesFallows @frankrichny and
In most circumstances, getting people to speak out when they see wrong being done is difficult. We celebrate moral courage partly because it’s rare. It’s rarer still when a whole party apparatus is designed to squelch that courage.
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Replying to @andrelambelet @JamesFallows and
The GOP is seemingly purpose-built to elect mediocrities. Those mediocrities are particularly vulnerable to the pressure to conform, even if that conformity comes at the cost of principle.
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Replying to @andrelambelet @JamesFallows and
Their election to high office is one that they both think they are owed — and one they know they don’t deserve. Compare a Nunes to a Schiff. Nunes plainly loathes Schiff — but part of that loathing comes from the certainty that Schiff is a better person.
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Replying to @andrelambelet @JamesFallows and
Eloquence, courage and decency don’t win arguments in this febrile atmosphere because those traits are the antithesis of the modern GOP. The GOP in its know-nothing phase responds to the expression of principle with the blow of a clenched fist.
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Replying to @andrelambelet @JamesFallows and
There is little steel in the establishment GOP. They have never been asked to be courageous before. What courage does it take to rave against big government? What courage does it take to chastise the poor? None. So they have never really been tested before.
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Replying to @andrelambelet @JamesFallows and
Now, facing a real test for the first time, they scurry about, looking to escape all this unpleasantness. They *know* what the right thing is; they lack the steel to do it.
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"Mankind is therefore like an army at war; now, every army needs discipline, and it is not sufficient that it submit to it on the day of combat. It must adapt to it during times of peace; without this, its defeat is certain, no amount of bravery can save it." J. Henri Poincaré
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