This author, blogger and scholar was not thrilled by Mitt Romney during and after his 2012 Presidential campaign, but there has always been respect for his dignity, principles, and basic virtues.
Romney, like John McCain before him, were Republicans this author would not support, but always felt that they presented basic Republican principles in a respectable manner.
Such is not the case with Donald Trump, but it is now clear that the Republican party of history is dying rapidly.
The bitter attacks on John McCain in his last years in the Senate, and the nasty attacks on Mitt Romney for repudiating Trump and voting to convict him on impeachment charges demonstrated that the Republican Party is much like a Fascist Party, controlled and dominated by a lunatic and maniac who has no regard for American democracy.
For Mitt Romney to be booed at a Utah Republican state party event demonstrates how loony the GOP has become!
By all rights, Donald Trump should be in prison for inciting the January 6, 2021 Capital Insurrection, and yet we have crazy Trump followers in the Congress and the state legislatures who bow to him as if he was Benito Mussolini or Adolf Hitler.
One does not have to agree with Mitt Romney on issues to feel sad that he is being mistreated for having basic decency and admirable principles, so we are witnessing the destruction of the party of Abraham Lincoln, Theodore Roosevelt, Dwight D. Eisenhower, Ronald Reagan, and George H. W. Bush, as well as John McCain and Mitt Romney!
Progressive Professor,
I am also a Professor at a local University. I wholeheartedly Agree with this Post about Mitt Romney and the Current GOP.
However, what I am not seeing from you or other Democrat and Independent thought leaders is a Call for the Many like Us in and out of Government calling for the Creation of Multi Level/Multi State Strategic Group to develop a Nationwide Voting Plan for the upcoming Midterms in 2022 to successfully overcome the Criminal and Anti-Democratic National Republican Voter Suppression Legislation. This will be like Planning for a Center/Liberal D-Day to Combat the Current Voter Suppression that would mean nothing more would be accomplished for the People for 2 Long Years until the 2024 Election and in someways that may be TOO LATE!
We have to Plan and Implement NOW!!
Another PROGRESSIVE PROFESSOR