I'm inclined to take Senator Thom Tillis's repeated knee-bending to Trump as just the inevitable byproduct of political parties, even one as generally inept as the Democratic Party. We all of us get furious with "traitors." We discipline the wavering, the doubtful, the fearful. We cuss 'em, we primary them and use rhetoric as hurtful and threatening as anything MAGA uses on its trump-lite. Lite like Senator Thom Tillis. The hard right in North Carolina hates his guts (to coin a novel phrase). So I don't blame him for playing bluff-and-hide. I'm just doubtful his squishiness is gonna work on unaffiliated voters (which he admitted in a recent interview was his only path to reelection).
Sen. Tillis has been a Russia hawk and very recently called Vlad Putin "a cancer." So the Tillis two-step since the Zelenskyy meeting in the White House looks like another failure of character, and in my estimation the worst of the lot. Rob Schofield this morning:
It’s one thing to disagree with your party’s leader about taxes, or the size of government, or even interpretations of the Constitution, and still remain allied. It’s quite another when that leader abandons two-and-a-half centuries of history as a global champion of democratic government and freedom and affirmatively aligns the United States with a committed opponent of both — the murderous Russian dictator Vladimir Putin.
Yeah. That's hard to forgive.
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