Some Repubs give a damn!
Today's Post has a terriflc op-ed by a senior Repub former oficial, Mitch Daniels. He is now President of Purdue University. Obviously he wrote in the wake of last week's midterm elections. And he deliberately attacks the Trumpies -- without calling them by name. (In short he still wants to be in politics -- who knows? Run for President?)
He takes as his leitmotiv Cormac McCarthy's decade-old novel, "No Country for Old Men" (which was made into an excellent movie a few years ago -- and which I saw).
Daniels writes: "the protagonist is a longtime county sheriff in south Texas who watches what has always been a rough-and-tumble environment descend rather suddenly into levels of violence and brutality that even that weathered veteran cannot cope with, or even comprehend.
"Even though bein’ sheriff was one of the best jobs you could have and bein’ a ex-sheriff was one of the worst,' by the book’s end, Sheriff Ed Tom Bell is ready to quit...
"Just a decade ago, but in what now seems a parallel universe, one could run for public office without vilifying one’s adversary. In fact, you could even make a virtue of it."
Read the whole damned thing -- and despair at how we are failing as a nation (and, sadly, I'm not exaggerating):
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/as-a-politician-i-vowed-not-to-attack-my-opponents-wheres-that-ethos-now/2018/11/09/fde28168-e399-11e8-8f5f-a55347f48762_story.html
He takes as his leitmotiv Cormac McCarthy's decade-old novel, "No Country for Old Men" (which was made into an excellent movie a few years ago -- and which I saw).
Daniels writes: "the protagonist is a longtime county sheriff in south Texas who watches what has always been a rough-and-tumble environment descend rather suddenly into levels of violence and brutality that even that weathered veteran cannot cope with, or even comprehend.
"Even though bein’ sheriff was one of the best jobs you could have and bein’ a ex-sheriff was one of the worst,' by the book’s end, Sheriff Ed Tom Bell is ready to quit...
"Just a decade ago, but in what now seems a parallel universe, one could run for public office without vilifying one’s adversary. In fact, you could even make a virtue of it."
Read the whole damned thing -- and despair at how we are failing as a nation (and, sadly, I'm not exaggerating):
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/as-a-politician-i-vowed-not-to-attack-my-opponents-wheres-that-ethos-now/2018/11/09/fde28168-e399-11e8-8f5f-a55347f48762_story.html