Sen. Ben Sasse: GOP Must Persuade Voters It Has A Vision Beyond Donald Trump

[DonViejo]

February 16, 202110:40 AM ET
Heard on Morning Edition

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Sen. Ben Sasse is one of seven Republicans who crossed party lines to vote to convict former President Donald Trump during his historic second impeachment trial.

The effort fell 10 votes short of the 67 needed to convict but served to fortify the junior senator from Nebraska's bona fides as a conservative with an independent streak and put him further at odds with party leaders back home.

In a wide-ranging interview with NPR's Morning Edition on Tuesday, Sasse said the Republican Party is in a battle between what he calls "conservatism and short-term-ism."

He added that the GOP must plan for the future and how, in his view, impeachments are not about the individual office holder, but about the behavior the nation wants presidents to exhibit while occupying the White House.

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[CentralMass]

1. It doesn't seem to matter.

[Rustyeye77]

2. Good luck Ben

You are in the minority in your own party.

[BlueTsunami2018]

3. Good luck. They're all in for that asshole.

It’s not about policy because there is no policy. It’s about having a figure in place to worship who hurts people they don’t like and destroys the norms. It was never about policy. Few of them even know what conservatism is.

[DBoon]

4. "destroys the norms" that try to keep them from lashing out in violence

They resent having to act decent to people who aren't like themselves.

[BootinUp]

5. Doesn't look promising, Ben. Nt

[BlueNProud]

6. Giving voice to resentment and bigotry is all they need.

[roamer65]

7. He will have to go (I) or help form a new center right party.

[tishaLA]

8. kinda weird how Mr Conservatism chose to be

Mr Short-Term until after he won his primary and didn't have to worry that he'd lose his job. In many ways, Sasse is among the worst of them because he's such a GD duplicitous asshole who speaks in phony high-minded rhetoric only when it doesn't matter anymore.

I'll never forget the speech he gave after the domestic terrorism on 1/6--he went on the floor of the senate and offered the useless suggestion that we shovel our neighbors' driveways.

[Dread Pirate Roberts]

9. What, are they going to hire a magician?

Sorry Ben, black is white and down is up just isn't a winning strategy-particularly when there are all of those incriminating lip prints planted squarely on Trump's ample butt.