2/ It’s true that if you look at the vote tallies, almost all GOP Senators have supported Trump.
1/ I’d like to pushback a little bit on the idea that McCain et. al are not really opposing Trump.
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3/ People are using this as evidence that “anti-Trump” GOP types like McCain aren’t really doing anything, just talking.
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4/ This is a pretty myopic view of how party elected officials influence, constrain, or oppose a POTUS of their party.
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5/ Yes, McCain could publicly announce he no longer supports the President, and vote against all his nominees.
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6/ But party Senators have a LOT more fine-grained tools than that with which to influence the President or public opinion.
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7/ First, it is radically unusual that party Senators are opposing the President AT ALL. It’s basically unprecedented.
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8/ That’s big. But bigger is the lack of surrogate support POTUS is getting from party Senators.
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9/ In a normal Presidency, party Senators would be on TV constantly, pushing the President’s message and defending his policies.
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@MattGlassman312 Good points and I had not looked at it that way. Thank you for a new perspective. -
@MattGlassman312 It's still hard to look at the Republican Senate and House opposition to Trump as heroic/sufficient/adequate in any way.
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@MattGlassman312 No evidence they oppose him on moral, ethical, or legal grounds. - さらに表示
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@MattGlassman312 Or, they're just dog-paddling at a slight distance, waiting to see if the ship's going down before they get back on board - さらに表示
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@MattGlassman312. I may disagree, he surely has Ryan and McConnell in his corner defending him and pushing his cabinet in dubious circumstan -
@MattGlassman312 Trump will pass Repubs' long term wish list (like gutting SocSecurity) & when he blows up, they alibi "He's not one of us."
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