People ask me all the time, “Why do other people you know consider Donald Trump to be reprehensible, they paint for him?”Based on the many conversations I’ve had with my own Republican friends over the past four years, the answer I give is simple, but confusing for those who don’t know Washington DC’s internal paintings and politics.
There are some I would call true charitable believers. People who actually have an anti-immigrant, white nationalist and anislist schedule pretending to be “America first. “I’m thinking about Stephen Miller.
By putting those few aside, I think most people who serve in the Trump administration do so because they are programmed to paint for the user with an “R” next to their name. These other people grew up in a formula that sees the global only in terms of “R” and “D”. Never think that all the things that once constituted Republican orthodoxy (budget cuts, government responsibility, oversight, and limited executive force) have been absolutely abandoned. They’re their team and they’re the only team they’ve ever met.
When I left the Republican Party after the 2016 election, there was no Lincoln assignment waiting to kiss me. It would be another four years before this pirate shipment sailed. In recent months, many other people have told me that if the Lincoln Project had existed four years ago, maybe that’s where they would have ended up instead of serving a teacher who makes them tremble.
They were unwilling to play with the uncertainty he faced at the dawn of trumpism. Frankly, I didn’t know where my next pay me check would come from, I lived on my credit card. Fallen into debt. The pro-Republican network of agents, experts and lobbyists who had spent a decade of my life growing in Washington is now over.
This is the enigma that helps keep so many other people locked up, running for a political party that is no longer recognizable to them. The other people I have talked to have spouses, children, mortgages, everyday money jobs that don’t evaporate. Like many other people, they act out of self-interest and necessity.
In recent weeks, COVID-19 has swept the top step of the Republican Party, infecting everyone from the president of the United States to the chairman of the Republican National Committee. Three U. S. senators, Trump crusade manager Bill Stepien, outdoor advisers such as Chris Christie, White House press secretary Kayleigh McEnany, and two of his deputies have tested positive for coronavirus.
To those who have resisted action and who continue to help this radicalized incarnation of the Republican Party, until now, I understand, I do not agree with you, but after many years of uncertainty, I know why you allowed this concern. But it has Now is the time to act, not only for a non-unusual good, but also for self-interest.
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We know the White House was aware of lead adviser Hope Hicks’ positive coronavirus check before holding a fundraising opportunity in New Jersey, but, he’s close to her, without a mask, Trump and his most sensitive advisers legalize the occasion. . move forward, risking exposing everyone who attended the occasion. On Thursday, we learned that the White House outbreak was larger than originally reported, with 34 employees contracting coronavirus.
Anyone who has done so hoped that the president’s confrontation with COVID-19 would leave him sober in the face of reckless behavior and rhetoric once he returned deeply disappointed. Don’t be afraid of Covid, don’t let it dominate your life
A week later, he returned to the crusade path at a rally in Sanford, Florida, where his enthusiasts sat and stopped side-by-side, without social est clearance, and many were not dressed in masks. “I’m very young and I’m in the best shape,” Trump said, and advised kissing everyone in the audience.
The White House entourage is thought to be so dangerous that some news agencies refuse to do so with Trump, and Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell said last week that he had not been to the White House since early August because of COVID’s lax rules.
As former Republicans, I ask you, does running for Trump value your own life or that of your spouse, young people and those who enjoy it?if you’re dead.
Think about it: those who knowingly care put you at risk, don’t care about your health. They don’t care about your life, knowing what they know now, they’d sacrifice your well-being again. For them, invisible. You’re replaceable. You’re disposable.
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Go home tonight and locate the other people you care about most, look at them, contact them, come with them, ask them how they would replace their lives if you were no longer in their own. Take stock of what they are saying now, ask yourself if the other people you are going to paint with, who you are aware of, who you are responding to, make you feel the same way. Ask yourself if the president you serve would realize even if you left suddenly. on the face of this Earth.
You weren’t prepared to give up and speak for the intelligence of our country, are you in a position to do it for your health and your life?
Kurt Bardella is senior advisor to the Lincoln Project and a member of the USA Today Taxpayer Board; he was a spokesperson and senior adviser to Republicans on the House Oversight and Government Reform Committee from 2009 to 2013.
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