Burn It All Down?

[LiberalArkie]

The Senate Republicans who protected and enabled Trump have to be held accountable.

JULY 27, 2020 5:30 AM

Senate Republicans “have enabled Trump’s despicable behavior,” Matt K. Lewis writes over at the Daily Beast, “while doing nothing to mitigate his worst instincts. Rather than rising to the occasion, they instead buckled under pressure. They lacked both the courage and the character we should expect from our leaders. If Trump were a more competent authoritarian, their cowardice might have been lethal.”

But, writes Lewis: We should vote for them anyway. Six more years!

Let’s leave aside the question of whether the deaths of nearly 150,000 Americans can be considered a “lethal” consequence. Lewis is among the anti-Trump critics now warning against punishing the GOP too severely for its cowardice, lack of character, and submission to Trumpism. He is joined by David French, who is also “squarely in the camp that seeks to dump Trump but not to seek vengeance on the rest of the GOP”:

A rage, fury, and a “burn it all down” mentality is one of the maladies that brought us to the present moment. Repeating that same impulse, but with an entire party in the crosshairs, will only compound our political dysfunction.

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As for the rest of them: Burn it all down.

https://thebulwark.com/burn-it-all-down/

[OnDoutside]

1. Abortion. That's why the likes of French don't want to go nuclear on the GOP.

[chowder66]

2. If you can find a republican worth keeping then you don't have to burn it all down.

I guess we will have to burn it all down.

[Ponietz]

3. There may be one or two Von Braun's among them