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8 Jun, 8 tweets, 3 min read
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First: Yes, Republican politicians say in private. Trump is dangerous to our democracy and unstable. But it would be limiting to our careers for us to do anything but enthusiastically support him. And he is rapidly losing his grip—very soon he will... 1/
...be gone, so why should we do anything other than enthusiastically support him? And, in any event, the Democrats will block him from doing anything really bad.

That is what they all think, and do. All but Liz Cheney:

Steve Schmidt: ‘Most significantly, [Liz Cheney]... 2/
...talks about her colleagues being intimidated by the Trump Mob. When the people’s representatives make votes on the basis of their fear of violence, democracy is in great crisis… <https://twitter. com/SteveSchmidtSES/status/1402082262632615941>... 3/
...Caroline Kelly: Cheney: Trump Inciting Jan. 6 Riot ‘The Most Dangerous Thing’ a President Has Done: ‘Wyoming Republican Rep. Liz Cheney accused former President Donald Trump of having committed the worst violation of a president’s oath of office by inciting the January... 4/
...6 Capitol insurrection–and taking a jab at House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy over his subsequent visit to Trump at Mar-a-Lago. “I was stunned. I could not imagine any justification for doing that,” Cheney said of McCarthy’s visit to Trump during an episode of David... 5/
...Axelrod’s “The Axe Files” podcast, which was taped Saturday afternoon as part of a University of Chicago alumni weekend event. “And I asked him why he had done it, and he said, well, he had just been in the neighborhood, essentially”…

LINK: <cnn.com/2021/06/06/pol…>... 6/
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