Excellent insight and worth repeating again and again.
What few people realize, mainly because they’re not elected representatives, is that sometimes politics is the art of the lesser evil.
If spending is coming down the pipeline and you cannot stop it, you can at least head it in the right direction.
That happens more often than not and you have to get ahead of the herd to do that.
Instantly you’re called a RINO.
No one says, “Wow, we could have fallen off the cliff.” They say, “You, traitor! Why did you turn the wheel at the last minute!”
I despise the overuse and misuse of the term RINO. It has become a pejorative used to stifle debate. The left doesn’t wholly own political correctness. Also, it is my suspicion that many of those accusing someone of being a “Republican in name only” are not even members of the Republican party.