Sarah Longwell is the founder, president and CEO of Longwell Partners, executive director of Republicans for the Rule of Law and publisher of The Bulwark.
Posted on 01/27/2021 6:09:32 AM PST by Oldeconomybuyer
What were Senate Republicans voting on Tuesday when they opposed the impeachment trial of Donald Trump? Not whether Trump stays in office — he's already left. Not how he's remembered by history — 400,000 dead from the coronavirus have already decided that question. Instead, the fate they were deciding was their own.
Sadly, most showed they still aren't ready to begin reclaiming the party from the conspiracists. Just five GOP senators joined Democrats to vote down Republican Sen. Rand Paul's motion that the impeachment proceedings were unconstitutional because Trump's term has finished. At least 17 Republicans will have to join Democrats to reach the two-thirds threshold to convict Trump, a necessary step before a follow-up vote can be held to permanently bar him from federal office.
45 Republican senators voted against taking up the impeachment trial Tuesday. Some want to spend as little time thinking and talking about Trump as possible, but many are still in thrall to his base. Twenty Republican-held Senate seats will be contested in two years, and the current occupants no doubt fear primary challengers from the MAGA right if they show any sign of breaking with Trump. What's less clear is why, given their rhetoric and behavior over the last four years, they think the country would be any worse off with Trump sycophants in their seats.
Thanks to the impeachment process they've been gifted by the Democrats, Senate Republicans have one last chance to break with Trump and the conspiracist authoritarianism he represents. Their opening move Tuesday was a weak one, but they still have time for a course correction when the vote on conviction takes place next month. If they won't do it for the country, they should at least do it to save their place in the party.
(Excerpt) Read more at nbcnews.com ...
Sarah Longwell is the founder, president and CEO of Longwell Partners, executive director of Republicans for the Rule of Law and publisher of The Bulwark.
Ask her where she stands on the impeachment of Joe Biden?
NBC’s DESPERATION is showing.
Founder president CEO
That’s where the money is
Have another doughnut honey, maybe it will help you think more clearly.
GFUNBC!
We have no advocate of note. SCOTUS, Kongress, the Attorney General and the FBI are all in the pocket of the Deep State.
And now our POTUS is gone, and we have no advocate of note.
I want new party so I don’t have to associate with this sweat hog.
Just the lead-in sentence in her article shows her blinding hatred of President Trump.......
These are the “Republicans” that must be purged from the party.......
Her views aren’t just different, they are lies wrapped in propaganda......
There’s a hell of a lot to impeach Byedone for.
Quite the opposite.
Sarah Longwell is a glaring example of why the 19th should be repealed.
They need to hear the evidence and determine the appropriate response.
Not voting republican ever again. They have betrayed me for the last time
More gaslighting from the gaslight media.
We all know NBC has the best interest of the Republican when giving this advice. /s
They want Trump’s power over the Republican party destroyed, so the GOPe can go back to just-pretending to oppose socialism.
Trump’s not going away. The next offensive is against the corruption and fraud.
Per Wikipedia...
“Sarah Longwell is a Republican political strategist and publisher. She is the founder of Republican Voters Against Trump.”
So, naturally, she’s completely unbiased. (The only question is who is funding her.)
What the heck is wrong with this woman? She says Trump was a proponent of “conspiracist authoritarianism” which is utter hogwash. He did more to restore the rule of law, individual liberty, and freedom than any president in my lifetime. I witnessed zero authoritarianism from him unlike the single-party communists running the show now with their record-breaking number of czarist edicts in the first week of the regime.
And she says she is with “Republicans for the Rule of Law.” What a joke.
This is Charting a Course Forward for Principled Conservatives? Yeah, OK.
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