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26 Oct, 4 tweets, 2 min read
Today, @SenAlexander will vote to confirm a new Supreme Court Justice. Over 60M Americans & 1.6M Tennesseans have already voted.

But he no longer thinks "it is reasonable to give the American people a voice."

Because now it's a Republican nomination.
That statement was Feb 2016, 9 mos before Election Day. Now he'll vote to confirm a new Justice 1 WEEK before Election Day.

In Feb 2020, he voted not to remove a president he believes undermined the rule of law because he thought the people should decide.
But it was only ever about party. Because the only principle the Republican party has atm is that anything they do to hold onto majority power as a minority is good & anything that reduces their majority power in favor of the people's majority is bad.
The Republican party used to warn against such.

Now they, and good Republicans like @SenAlexander, embrace it.

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Can we talk about the cognitive dissonance required of a party politician?

A thread about @SenAlexander and his thoughts on the impeachment of President Trump v the confirmation of Amy Coney Barrett:
1/19
Here's @SenAlexander, Senator from my state, Tennessee. He's a Republican. A good Republican.

Once, running for President, he warned, “The worst thing we could do is to replace the arrogant empire we defeated with an arrogant empire of our own.”
2/19
congress.gov/member/lamar-a…
You may remember that the current president, Donald Trump, was impeached for withholding Congressionally-appropriated funds from Ukraine in order to coerce that country into investigating American citizens (& political rivals).

We start there.
3/19
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