A Whitman Sampler

Yesterday, the following tweet was posted by Christine Todd Whitman, the Republican former governor of New Jersey.

It was a good note - not the kind of thing we've seen from notable Republican.  No, she's no longer in office, which tends the be the dividing line of Republicans willing the criticize the fascism of the party, but she held high office and is a person of good reputation.  And what very little criticism of the GOP we've seen from even former officials  of the party, even fewer have used the word "complicit."

But to be very clear, they are already complicit. If they "Speak up publicly" today, that would be wonderful.  But they're still complicit.  They have enabled Trump for four years. They don't get off from being complicit because after 200,00 deaths, taking children from their parents, giving comfort to white supremacists, getting impeached for trying to bribe a foreign leader, putting children in cages, being the only nation to withdraw from the Paris Accord, accepting the word of the Russian leader over all U.S. intelligence services, trying to discredit the free press by calling them the "enemy, destroying the economy, having 20,000+ documented lies, approving federal judges rated "Not Qualified" by the American Bar Association, using tear gas against peaceful American citizens, trying to discredit judges and the court system, using the Attorney General as a personal lawyer to go after opponents, firing the CDC infectious disease expert based in China, cutting $8 billion from the CDC budget, attacking Gold Star families, ratcheting up division rather than uniting people, profiting from the office of the presidency, using the U.S. military to supposedly "protect" United States soil against a non-existent threat of a caravan of immigrants seeking asylum, protecting a Saudi Prince who oversaw the brutal murder of a American resident journalist, ending the nuclear deal with Iran, cozying up to the ostracized brutal dictator of North Korea while agreeing to stop U.S. war games for a "promise"  to end their nuclear program that was never kept, saying there were "many fine people" among the neo-Nazis, gave away secrets to the Russian Foreign Minister in the Oval Office that forced the U.S. to pull a vital source out of the Kremlin, and shredding the fabric of the country they say the obvious.

No, they don't get off being "complicit" because of all that.  What's left, though, is that if they do finally "Speak up publicly" after almost four years is not being at risk of criminal charges.  Or losing their next election.  Or being damned in hall for eternity.

P.S.  Sorry for keeping the list above so short and leaving a lot of important things out, but it had gone on for a long while, and I figured most people got the point.