[Mitt Romney op-ed] The president shapes the public character of the nation.
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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/mitt-romney-the-president-shapes-the-public-character-of-the-nation-trumps-character-falls-short/2019/01/01/37a3c8c2-0d1a-11e9-8938-5898adc28fa2_story.html
Title truncated because it doesn't fit. Romney will be sworn in as one of Utah's senators on Thursday.
The Trump presidency made a deep descent in December. The departures of Defense Secretary Jim Mattis and White House Chief of Staff John F. Kelly, the appointment of senior persons of lesser experience, the abandonment of allies who fight beside us, and the president’s thoughtless claim that America has long been a “sucker” in world affairs all defined his presidency down.
It is well known that Donald Trump was not my choice for the Republican presidential nomination. After he became the nominee, I hoped his campaign would refrain from resentment and name-calling. It did not. When he won the election, I hoped he would rise to the occasion. His early appointments of Rex Tillerson, Jeff Sessions, Nikki Haley, Gary Cohn, H.R. McMaster, Kelly and Mattis were encouraging. But, on balance, his conduct over the past two years, particularly his actions this month, is evidence that the president has not risen to the mantle of the office.
It is not that all of the president’s policies have been misguided. He was right to align U.S. corporate taxes with those of global competitors, to strip out excessive regulations, to crack down on China’s unfair trade practices, to reform criminal justice and to appoint conservative judges. These are policies mainstream Republicans have promoted for years. But policies and appointments are only a part of a presidency.
To a great degree, a presidency shapes the public character of the nation. A president should unite us and inspire us to follow “our better angels.”
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In a 2016 Pew Research Center poll, 84 percent of people in Germany, Britain, France, Canada and Sweden believed the American president would “do the right thing in world affairs.” One year later, that number had fallen to 16 percent.
great but you're going to support "his agenda" and vote for mitch mcconnell for senate majority leader as well just like Hatch did. Ya you'll get your verbal jabs in but you will never back your words up with a vote.
He literally can't, going against the Party is impossible, not even Murkowski could vote full no on Kavanaugh. They serve the Party or Russia will air their dirty laundry.
Mitt Romney is such a smug snake. Reminder that when it looked like he was being considered for Sec. of State he had nothing but fawning praise for Trump. Now that he's safely in the Senate for the next 6 years he's gonna lecture us about the importance of being polite while you push a draconian right-wing agenda.
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Fuck this guy.
Fuck you Romney, you coward.
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jesus christ...
mitt romney being relevant makes me wonder whatever happened to rick perry
Running the Department of Energy and gaining a lot less attention than other cabinet heads because he's not being so obvious about dismantling the agency and running it into the ground. He's pushing oil and coal energy, instead of nuclear, though, which is not normally part of the job so he's hardly doing "good".
"he was right on all those things that republicans did but I still think he needs to be a nicer man"
we're facing a massive revanue crisis in this country thanks to his tax plan, people are dying because states are kicking them off of programs that have nothing to even do with the ACA, the republican agenda is totally immoral
why does rick perry exist, remind me again why this hasnt been one of the largest problems people have with trumps cabinet
Morality does not factor in to the equation. Republicans do not consider morals to be the government's job except in stopping abortions.
vulture capitalist and nothing else.
rick perry was dumb enough to accept a job at an agency that doesn't actually do anything for coal and oil. His proposals all have to go through other places. The DoE is really a fake name, they almost exclusively are research and managing the nuclear arsenal
Yeah, fuck off, Mitt.
If you really cared, do something about it. You won't, though.
It's kind of absurd that everyone feels the need to criticize him because he attempted to join the cabinet. Just like in jobs: to gain influence, you play the game.
We'd still have ToysRUs too if you hadn't founded Bain Capital, asshole.
the issue is that literally every republican that 'stands for what is right' just is paying lip service to us while fully supporting trump tearing down our democracy. Its not enough to say 'I don't think this is right.' they have to actually act on it. Romney isn't even saying he thinks trump's policies are wrong, and yet he's being hoisted up as being this republican maverick centrist that will stand up to trump and bring a countering force to the GOP just in their hour of need.
He was anointed, not elected, the senator from Utah. He is going to go into congress paying lip service to us and doing whatever it takes to further Trump and his agenda, and he's for damn sure going to be joining his colleagues in obstructing and covering for the worst most immoral man to hold the office of the presidency since Nixon. He will not vote against the wall, he will not try to stop ICE from raiding courthouses and churches. He won't give a damn about the children dying in US custody. He's another completely fake evangelical that stands for nothing
Because Trump is closer to what he wants then any Democrat except like Jim Hood. Lesser or two evils for the party of evil.
its not even about lesser of two evils, like there is no choice, its Trump, the gop is run like a monarchy and the legislators are his court of nobles. they did the same thing with Bush and Reagan and Nixon.
Say what you want about the democrats but they've never been like that.
That's why they're always attacked as leaderless and messageless.
Herman Cain will always be my favorite 2012 Republican.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lwawPMSJins
ironically its been the level headed and statesmanlike republicans such as eisenhower, ford, and bush HW that the republicans have felt the same way about because they didn't make their entire presidency about dominating the party.
Republicans have no leg to stand on when arguing morals or public character
Here, let me translate.
”With this shit again, Mitt? You think you got the balls to pull a Flake? Didn’t think so. I’d rather you get your ass in gear keeping out the browns or whatever. I’m a winner, you suck. Our party is god. Fall in line or die for all I care.”
Maybe we can encourage Mitt to run in 2020 and split the GOP ticket
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