02-01-2021, 12:18 AM
(01-31-2021, 10:52 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:(01-31-2021, 10:23 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:The only Republican senators running the risk of being discredited and removed from contention are the five who are directly associated with another Democratic run shit show.(01-31-2021, 06:54 PM)mamabug Wrote: Which, again, is all moot because SCOTUS won't hear either case since HE. WON'T. BE. CONVICTED.
If he isn't convicted, a bunch of Republican senators will have discredited themselves in the general election. If he is convicted, we will be rid of Trump. It is worth putting up with a little theater.
No, integrity usually pays better in the longer term. Trump has too much damage associated with him to be worth defending... fools think that spin works, but in the end it invariably fails. One lie demands another lie until the unsteady hillock collapses.
Republicans who can ditch Trump will at the least have clean consciences. Republicans in states anywhere near being swing states who did defend Trump take the risk of having his disgrace attached to them in the next election.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.