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After working out this morning, I pedalled over to the club for breakfast, and there I bumped into and dined with a GOP old friend of 35+ years. Briefly, our chat turned to politics, and I asked him if he could see himself voting for Republican candidates for Congress.
"Not anyone like the cowards we currently have. They'd have to the fortitude to openly form a caucus, however small, to rebuke Trump and follow through with decisive actions against his bêtise. The clowns there now care more about their re-electability than the country, and I can't abide that...Mark 8:36 and all, ya know..." My friend sees Trump as a cancer, a pox, a gangrenous affliction besetting not only the GOP but also the nation and world.
I was taken aback for my friend has been a Republican since our days in college when he was active with the College Republican club. He and I generally concurred on economic policy and ethics, but not on social policy; however, he never was a zealot -- he and I never'd have become friends were he. Still, his abject abjurance of the GOP until Trump's gone from it was surprising.
If you're among the non-conservatives here:
"Not anyone like the cowards we currently have. They'd have to the fortitude to openly form a caucus, however small, to rebuke Trump and follow through with decisive actions against his bêtise. The clowns there now care more about their re-electability than the country, and I can't abide that...Mark 8:36 and all, ya know..." My friend sees Trump as a cancer, a pox, a gangrenous affliction besetting not only the GOP but also the nation and world.
I was taken aback for my friend has been a Republican since our days in college when he was active with the College Republican club. He and I generally concurred on economic policy and ethics, but not on social policy; however, he never was a zealot -- he and I never'd have become friends were he. Still, his abject abjurance of the GOP until Trump's gone from it was surprising.
If you're among the non-conservatives here:
- Had similar conversations with your GOP friends? If so, what were their thoughts?