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In reply to the discussion: Steve Schmidt: "This is an urgent matter. This is not ok in America. We do not have secret police" [View all]calimary
(81,675 posts)He's doing his best to make amends by now. By NOW. But where was he a few years ago when he was lacerating Dems and using that sharp tongue and that shrewd language and those powerful phrasings - AGAINST our side? When he was so smug and uttered such juicy and cocky and pointed smackdowns?
ALL OF 'EM.
The Steve Schmidts and the Rick Wilsons and the David Jollys and the other "recovering republi-CONS" who can't stomach being part of that fucked up group of "true believers" anymore. They may not like it now, but they helped build it. They laid the groundwork.
You just wait - after trump is gone, I suspect many of them will go right straight back to the "old ways" and be proud full-on GOP again. In a way, they're a lot like donald, who cares only about how whatever-it-is makes him look. They realize that having anything to do with the "party of trump" makes them look bad, and maybe it's made them give some thought to all this.
MAYBE it's made them start to think, and change their minds, and adjust their views, and be a little more objective than agenda-driven.
Maybe.
And I went to Catholic school where they taught forgiveness for sin, from God to us sinners, from Jesus on the Cross to all of us, and from all of us to each other. And I'm trying. I'm trying to "think forgiveness." I'm trying to think that maybe there really might have been a sincere change-of-heart among these self-described "former Republicans."
That said, though, hopefully you'll excuse me for not wanting to hold my breath...
Meantime, I'd rather stand with those who can't breathe.