How many well-respected retired Republican government officials and military generals will it take to convince the American populace that the Republican Party is no longer a highly-esteemed or respected group of intelligent, small-government, party of businessmen?
Life-long and hard core Republicans who have disavowed their relationship with the Party. People like:
Former Chairman of the Republican Party Michael Steele,
Former Speaker of the House John Boehner, who says: “There is no Republican party. There’s a Trump party.”
Universally recognized ultra-conservative writer and outspoken commentator George Will,
Another conservative writer Nicholas Kristoff,
Former GW Bush communications director Nicolle Wallace,
Former Florida Congressman David Jolly,
Republican strategist Steve Schmidt, (campaign manager for Mitt Romney’s Presidential bid in 2016)
Hard hitting journalist (think: Watergate) Bob Woodward,
Retired Generals McCaffrey, and Honore (in charge of the Katrina cleanup, for two)
Long time Republican Broadcaster and commentator Charlie Sykes,
Republican pundit Rick Wilson,
Charleston Mayor Danny Jones, who has been a Republican for 45 years and has been elected mayor four times as a Republican, has left the party.
Former Arizona attorney general Grant Woods,
Former head of the FBI James Comey (not surprising, I suppose)
Finally, former Republican columnist at the Atlantic Peter Wehner, who writes,
Donald Trump did not cause the Corona Virus. Neither did the Democrats blow it out of proportion for political gain. But Trump has absolutely shirked any responsibility for containing the virus and is STILL withholding life-saving medical supplies sitting in reserve somewhere because Jared Kushner has deemed them unavailable for the states, because “these are OURS”. Because the strategy for this White House is to avoid responsibility for the deaths accruing daily by “allowing” the Governors of each state to decide what they want to do, and withholding those life-saving supplies to those Governors who are “appropriately grateful” to him when asking for help.
“Today I see the Republican Party through the clarifying prism of Donald Trump, who consistently appealed to the ugliest instincts and attitudes of the GOP base—in 2011, when he entered the political stage by promoting a racist conspiracy theory, and in 2016, when he won the GOP nomination.”
If this recent upending of the lives of every person around the world does not make every single one of us pause and take a closer look at what is developing before our eyes, and the tragic mishandling of every possible opportunity to become a real leader of all US citizens, not just those who have managed to curry favor from him, then I feel we are lost-and not just those who have died because of it.
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