He flips (changes) and you roll over?
“He flips (changes) and you roll over?”
Ben Franklin wrote, “...for having lived long, I have experienced many instances of being obliged by better information or fuller consideration to change opinions even on important subjects which I once thought right but found to be otherwise...”
I’m no Ben Franklin, but I have shared with him the experience of being wrong. When I was in college, I was the smartest person who ever lived and knew everything. Since then, I discovered that everything I knew was wrong.
And neither am I a billionaire, but it seems to me that Trump should also be subject to the vicissitudes that Franklin described.
What you call “flipping” is a cynical change in public position for political reasons. It is an entirely different thing from realizing that you are and have been full of crap, and I think that is what is happening to Trump.
What you call “rolling over” is a cynical or cowardly change in public position for political reasons. A guarded willingness to extend a conditional benefit of the doubt hardly qualifies as “rolling over.”