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MURDER, POLITICS, AND THE END OF THE JAZZ AGE
by Michael Wolraich
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Jeff Flake Plants a Flag, op-ed by David Brooks @ NYTimes.com, July 28
[....] He came to Congress in 2001 and earned a reputation as a scourge against federal spending and earmarks and as a champion of tax cuts. But he walked into a Republican Party that was descending from Goldwater and Reagan, his heroes, to Newt Gingrich and Tom DeLay. When I had coffee with Flake this week, he spoke about the philosophical and political corruption of the DeLay era with uncharacteristic contempt.
Things got worse. In 2016 the Republican Party, Flake argues in the book, lost its manners. “It seems it is not enough to be conservative anymore. You have to be vicious.” And it lost its philosophy. “We become so estranged from our principles that we no longer recognize what principle is.”
Flake told me he doesn’t want his book to be seen simply as a broadside against Trump. The rot set in long before, but Trump takes the decay to a new level.
On the day in 2015 when Trump endorsed a Muslim ban, Flake tweeted “Just when you think @realDonaldTrump can stoop no lower, he does.” Flake attended prayers at an Arizona mosque that afternoon. At the core of this book is a bill of indictment listing the ways Trump has betrayed the Goldwater Creed [....]
Comments
My Party Is in Denial About Donald Trump
We created him, and now we're rationalizing him. When will it stop?
Of course this op-ed is to help sell the book. But who cares when it's this message?
by artappraiser on Mon, 07/31/2017 - 10:16pm
Ezra Klein @ Vox.com:
GOP Sen. Jeff Flake: Donald Trump is like the biblical flood, and we need to build an ark
“We lost our way and began to rationalize away our principles in the process.”
by artappraiser on Tue, 08/01/2017 - 4:31am