Some did this because they are fools who do not understand why Trump is dangerous.
Some
did it because they were naive enough to believe he could be controlled
and manipulated into implementing a normal Republican agenda.
Of
course, there were the minority of Republicans who did what was
right and withheld their support from Trump: people like Ohio Gov. John
Kasich,
Nebraska Sen. Ben Sasse, and Hewlett-Packard CEO and megadonor Meg
Whitman, the latter of whom called Trump "a threat to the survival of
the republic."
I
want to focus on a fourth group: Republican politicians who understand
exactly how dangerous Donald Trump is, but who have chosen to support
him anyway for reasons of strategy, careerism, or cowardice.
Cowards and scoundrels
I
am talking, for example, about Sen. Marco Rubio, who in the primary
called Trump an "erratic individual" who must not be trusted with
nuclear weapons — and then endorsed him for president.
I
am talking about Sen. Ted Cruz, who called Trump a "pathological liar"
and "utterly amoral" — and then endorsed him for president,
even though Trump never apologized for threatening to "spill the beans"
on Cruz's wife and suggesting Cruz's father was involved in the
assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
Most of all, I'm talking about House Speaker Paul Ryan,
a man whose pained, blue eyes suggest he desperately wants to cry for
help. He's a man who runs around the country pathetically trying to
pretend that Trump does not exist and that the key issue is his
congressional caucus' "Better Way" agenda. And he's a man who, of his
own free will, seeks to help Donald Trump become president.
These men are not fools like Ben Carson.
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