Well said, Chris. The respect I once had for Sununu has gone away. Anyone unable to see the clear and present danger presented by Trump should not be the governor of a state...and not anywhere near the levers of power, anywhere!
In his book "On Tyranny, Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century," Timothy Snyder agrees that our institutions are crucial for protecting democracy. But he also warns that they are not impregnable.
"It is institutions that help us to preserve decency. They need our help as well. Do not speak of “our institutions” unless you make them yours by acting on their behalf.
Institutions do not protect themselves. They fall one after the other unless each is defended from the beginning."
Mr. Sununu demonstrates a particularly irresponsible laziness as a "leader" by failing to defend our institutions. It's his duty to protect the institutions, not the other way around.
Spot on. And the Republicans seem to be full of folks that are being lazy, weak, and abdicating any responsibility as a leader. I am no Liz Cheney fan, but wow is she showing strength and leadership and morality. How can there be only 1?!
This is a debate I have all the time with other academics. Institutions are extremely important but they don't exist independently of political actors. They are inanimate tools that rely on all of us to be effective. The idea that politicians and citizens can engage in horrible and dangerous behavior and it's okay because the institutions are there is illogical at best and moronic at worst. It's not just one person, it's the President being endorsed and mimicked but a bunch of Republicans just like him. This is the kind of complacency that leads to collapse.
Sununu will be like Leslie Nielsen's Frank Drebin in Naked Gun trying to direct the crowd in front of the exploding fireworks store. "Nothing to see here!"
Indeed, it seems with Sununu to be massive cognitive dissonance. I think he really believes what you are saying, that our institutions are indestructible. He's a USA fanboy. Exactly like some members of German government, 85 years ago. Party before country, and he's made that clear.
In short, we need to move along and leave Sununu on the shoulder of the road. He is no leader; of that I am sure.
Chris Sununu is an example of why Republicans do not grasp the danger our democracy is facing. He stated that he would vote for Trump, simply because he is a Republican. Well Chris - you have a choice - either choose the guy who is attempting to overthrow our Constitution and Democracy, or go with a man who spent about 40 years as a Senator, 8 years as a Vice President, and 4 years as the President.
I spent the majority of my career living and working in dictator-led countries and working for USG. I know what it means to daily live without any legal or civil rights where you could be incarcerated or murdered at any time for any drummed up reason. You might also be interested in reading From Democracy to Democrazy by E. Graham. (www.democrazy2020.org.) It is a stark warning to all Americans - especially Republicans - regarding Putin's desire to destroy the United States from within - and he is succeeding.
Microsoft proved that 58% (or more) of all cyber attacks into the U.S. come from Russia. They have hacked into our bank and finance systems, our food chains, our gas and oil distribution, our elections and polls, our military bases, and a host of other vital supply sources of products or information.
Trump was in KGB records as far back as 1977 when he married Ivana; he traveled to Russia often, and every time he stayed in a Moscow hotel - the room was filled with spy equipment (cameras and microphones). This is common practice in Russia. He was most likely compromised in this way with Russian KGB professional woman, or he was caught laundering money for Russians via real estate deals. In either case, his loyalty was not and has not been dedicated to our democracy. His speeches filled with lies are a proven means of "mass mind manipulation" - aka brainwashing. It is defined as repeating lies over and over until it is perceived as the truth. Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, and Putin all use repetitive lying. It works. Jim Jones developed a cult of 900 people. He told them all to drink KoolAid laced with poison. They all perished. Hitler converted an entire peaceful nation into mass murderers and over 7 million humans died. Stalin, the worst of all dictators, merciless killed at least 20 million people. Putin, who is often compared to Stalin, is amassing a large number of deaths including pregnant women in Ukrainian hospitals, children in kindergarten, and thousands upon thousands of innocents.
While the American media spotlight, ever enthralled by the sensationalism of the moment, remains fixated on the whirlwind of legal woes orbiting Trump, a crucial and overlooked danger continues to unfold in our country. The influence of Putin's strategies quietly attempts to reshape the trajectory of American politics - especially by his influence and control over Trump and Trump supporters such as MAGA and others in our Congress.
For example, the House of Representatives is recommending a new federal budget without money to support the Ukrainian war. Putin, via Iran, play a major role in the implementation of the Hamas attack on Israel. As a result, the U.S. media has focused 99% of their time on Israel and has forgotten about the inhumane annihilation of Ukrainian citizens and the obliteration of a sovereign nation.
If this proposed budget is not approved, the Republicans can shut down our government for an indefinite period of time. Trump closed the USG for 36 days during his presidency. This was the longest period in the history of our country. In either case - Putin wins. If our government closes - we are more vulnerable. If the budget is approved without support for Ukraine, it increases Russia's chances of eradicating the country of Ukraine and absorbing this land into Russia.
I live in a small mountainous town in Northern Arizona. We have a Nazi group here who drive around in pickup trucks with swastika stickers on the rear bumpers and Trump flags waving. They meet weekly in a building on Main Street and think Trump was the best President to ever to hold that office. This is frightening beyond words.
that Chris Sununu could be the key to stopping Trump in New Hampshire. He is the most popular politician in the state, he is a 2nd generation politician, and the Sununu grassroots network in the state is vast and deep. The Sununu endorsement could really move the needle in a state where Trump is vulnerable. In my “stop Trump at all costs” brain, he seemed like a potential hero (though I disagree with him on most policy). To read now he would still vote for Trump in a general election is mind boggling, sad, and enraging.
Abridged article by Tom Nichols of the "Atlantic" magazine:
"The Republicans Who Won’t Quit Trump. The GOP establishment is coming home to the former president—again."
Career Over Country
Breaking up, Neil Sedaka told us many years ago, is hard to do. But it shouldn’t be impossible. When a Republican governor describes Donald Trump as a “three-time loser,” warns that the party will lose “up and down the ballot” if Trump is the 2024 Republican presidential nominee, and calls the former president “fucking crazy,” it’s easy to imagine a responsible politician who has packed his bags and is waiting on the steps of the GOP’s Delta House for his taxi back to the world of sensible adults.
Governor Chris Sununu of New Hampshire, however, is not such a politician.
Sununu gained a lot of media attention and applause from the Never Trump Republicans for being one of the former president’s most brutal critics. But now that Trump is all but inevitable as the GOP nominee, Sununu is bashing Joe Biden and embracing Trump as the lesser of two evils.
“Did you see [Trump’s] last visit to New Hampshire?” Sununu said to reporters earlier this month. “He was comparing himself to Nelson Mandela and talking about Jesus Christ being speaker of the House—it was kooky talk … He sounds almost as bad as Joe Biden.”
Almost as bad as Joe Biden?
I will be the first to note, as I did here, that Biden’s reputation as a walking gaffe hazard is well deserved. He gets carried away, embellishes, and remembers things that didn’t happen (a sign, I think, more of his penchant for self-important Irish blarneying than of his age). He spent his life as a senator; senators talk a lot, and sometimes they say dumb stuff.
But to compare Biden’s blunders to Trump’s derangement is inane. Trump’s mind often slips the surly bonds of Earth: He has claimed that he won all 50 states in the 2020 election, invented people who invariably call him “sir,” lied endlessly about an astonishing number of things, embraced the QAnon conspiracy theories, and, as Sununu himself admits, compared himself to Jesus Christ.
Biden is a competent politician who sometimes stumbles or goes off the rails in his public statements. Trump is a disturbed, emotionally disordered person who, in Liz Cheney’s words, is “the most dangerous man ever to inhabit the Oval Office.”
So why is Sununu going to vote for Trump? Because Republicans have to win. That’s it. “I just want Republicans to win,” Sununu told Puck’s Tara Palmeri in a podcast released yesterday. “That’s all I care about.”
Perhaps if Sununu had been forced from office or personally threatened by Trump supporters, he might feel differently—or at least be less inclined to stand for such mindless hyper-partisanship.
Numbed by opportunism, many Republicans will simply hunker down and try to survive the next five years. They’re all sure that, after that, it’ll be their time, and they will triumphantly cobble together a new GOP coalition out of independents, moderate Republicans, and what’s left of the MAGA vote, gaining that last group by assuring Trump’s base that no matter what they may have said about their idol, at least they never went over the fence and voted for a Democrat.
But these ambitious Republicans are also under a self-serving delusion that the next Trump term will be something like the first Trump term. They assume that adults will somehow restrain Trump and that the nation will function more or less normally while Trump goes off to his beloved rallies.
They are committed to the fantasy that four more years of a mad king will be akin to weathering one more passing storm. (They have also likely convinced themselves, as Nikki Haley did while working for Trump, that they can best limit the damage by being in the mix of GOP politics, rather than by being excommunicated.)
This dream narrative ends with the normal Republicans emerging from their tornado shelters, surveying some limited and reparable damage, and restoring the center-right, conservative kingdom. President Haley or Senator Meijer will get the GOP back to cutting taxes and erasing government regulations, all while mending fences with millions of people who were horrified by the violence and madness of Trumpism.
None of that is going to happen.
Trump has made it clear that he has no regrets about any ghastly thing he did as president, that as president again he will bring a legion of goons and cronies with him into the White House (including seditionists and rioters whom he will pardon and release from jail), and that he fully intends to finish the job of burning down American democracy.
Politicians such as Sununu know all of this, but they apparently think they will remain untouched by it. They have put their party and their personal fortunes over their allegiance to the Constitution, perhaps hoping that they will at least have a chance to rule over whatever is left in the ashes of the republic.
Tom Nichols
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Sununu is the classic political hack. He comes from a familiar-line of pols in New Hampshire, thus as safe as any elected official (BTW - he says he will not run for governor again), and he now has changed his tune from "Trump will never get the nomination" to "At least Trump isn't as bad as Biden."
When Trump acts in the ways he is constantly claiming, thus turning America into being "Russia-Adjacent," Sununu will clutch his pearls and bemoan that America is turning into an Autocracy.
This ties in with a very grim opinion piece in the WaPo by Robert Kagen https://wapo.st/47QyFY1 Why are so many Republicans blindly following the Franz von Papen model?
I'm just stunned. This piece is clearly the worst case scenario, but it's frighteningly accurate in its observations about people and their actions and how we slide quietly into situations such as the one we are in. I was most impressed (horrified?) by the description of the barriers and sacrifices folks would have had to make all along the way, and how action continues to be shunted off to an imaginary "someone else" to make the sacrifice and take a stand. I was actually very worried about this when Mueller opted to not make any judgments or accusations against Trump and let the Attorney General and Justice Department make the call. I understood he assumed the "institution" would be the savior here, but it was obvious to anyone with brain he was wrong. That was back when the bar was low. So so many missed opportunities. Thanks for the link.
How is it that we all keep acting surprised by the actions of these Republicans?!?!
We've watched this cowardice unfold over nearly 9 years now.
This isn't new. This isn't a surprise.
This doesn't even move the needle emotionally for me anymore.
Long ago, I decided I'd use actions like these as fuel to engage any fence-riders. But beyond that, I can't get mad at this anymore bc I'm numb to it. Similar to how inaction on gun violence has become. Hard to be mad anymore bc this is US. We've decided these things are OK.....en masse....when we repeatedly vote in legislators....governors....Presidents who value campaign contributions, amassing/retainimg power than actually solving problems.
For far too long we've believed in American Exceptionalism that frankly isn't very well....exceptional.
Truly F@#@ing crazy. I just don't get them. Putting party ahead of country. I miss the days of Bluedog Democrats and moderate Republicans and agree we are more vulnerable than ever. Scary times ahead!
Agree with this Chris. Silly me thought Sununu would be one of the good guys at one point. Nope, another spineless GOP member who would rather have an insurrectionist, authoritarian, liar, cheater, etc., etc., in the Oval Office. Sickening.
Sununu doesn’t realize it yet, but his criticism of Donald J Trump has him squarely on the Trump “enemies” list. His vote for Trump will be meaningless in the eyes of Trump…..and retribution has been promised.
Thank you Chris for laying bare so clearly the four step logic by GOP NH Gov. John Sununu that any Democratic opponent is unacceptable compared to Trump who he has personally excoriated in great detail as insane, crazy and unfit to be President, As a respected authority figure, Gov. Sununu creates a very dangerous permission structure recommendation to every American voter to willingly approve Trump's promise to become a dictator by systematically challenging, if not destroying, all of the institutional checks and balances in our Constitution that allow democratic self-governance replacing them with crony capitalism and mob intimidation/violence against people who oppose him. It's tantamount to Sununu saying that he prefers Big Brother's lie that 2 + 2 = 5 and so should we and our progeny.
Well said, Chris. The respect I once had for Sununu has gone away. Anyone unable to see the clear and present danger presented by Trump should not be the governor of a state...and not anywhere near the levers of power, anywhere!
In his book "On Tyranny, Twenty Lessons from the Twentieth Century," Timothy Snyder agrees that our institutions are crucial for protecting democracy. But he also warns that they are not impregnable.
"It is institutions that help us to preserve decency. They need our help as well. Do not speak of “our institutions” unless you make them yours by acting on their behalf.
Institutions do not protect themselves. They fall one after the other unless each is defended from the beginning."
Mr. Sununu demonstrates a particularly irresponsible laziness as a "leader" by failing to defend our institutions. It's his duty to protect the institutions, not the other way around.
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Spot on. And the Republicans seem to be full of folks that are being lazy, weak, and abdicating any responsibility as a leader. I am no Liz Cheney fan, but wow is she showing strength and leadership and morality. How can there be only 1?!
This is a debate I have all the time with other academics. Institutions are extremely important but they don't exist independently of political actors. They are inanimate tools that rely on all of us to be effective. The idea that politicians and citizens can engage in horrible and dangerous behavior and it's okay because the institutions are there is illogical at best and moronic at worst. It's not just one person, it's the President being endorsed and mimicked but a bunch of Republicans just like him. This is the kind of complacency that leads to collapse.
Exactly.
Sununu will be like Leslie Nielsen's Frank Drebin in Naked Gun trying to direct the crowd in front of the exploding fireworks store. "Nothing to see here!"
Indeed, it seems with Sununu to be massive cognitive dissonance. I think he really believes what you are saying, that our institutions are indestructible. He's a USA fanboy. Exactly like some members of German government, 85 years ago. Party before country, and he's made that clear.
In short, we need to move along and leave Sununu on the shoulder of the road. He is no leader; of that I am sure.
Chris Sununu is an example of why Republicans do not grasp the danger our democracy is facing. He stated that he would vote for Trump, simply because he is a Republican. Well Chris - you have a choice - either choose the guy who is attempting to overthrow our Constitution and Democracy, or go with a man who spent about 40 years as a Senator, 8 years as a Vice President, and 4 years as the President.
I spent the majority of my career living and working in dictator-led countries and working for USG. I know what it means to daily live without any legal or civil rights where you could be incarcerated or murdered at any time for any drummed up reason. You might also be interested in reading From Democracy to Democrazy by E. Graham. (www.democrazy2020.org.) It is a stark warning to all Americans - especially Republicans - regarding Putin's desire to destroy the United States from within - and he is succeeding.
Microsoft proved that 58% (or more) of all cyber attacks into the U.S. come from Russia. They have hacked into our bank and finance systems, our food chains, our gas and oil distribution, our elections and polls, our military bases, and a host of other vital supply sources of products or information.
Trump was in KGB records as far back as 1977 when he married Ivana; he traveled to Russia often, and every time he stayed in a Moscow hotel - the room was filled with spy equipment (cameras and microphones). This is common practice in Russia. He was most likely compromised in this way with Russian KGB professional woman, or he was caught laundering money for Russians via real estate deals. In either case, his loyalty was not and has not been dedicated to our democracy. His speeches filled with lies are a proven means of "mass mind manipulation" - aka brainwashing. It is defined as repeating lies over and over until it is perceived as the truth. Mussolini, Hitler, Stalin, and Putin all use repetitive lying. It works. Jim Jones developed a cult of 900 people. He told them all to drink KoolAid laced with poison. They all perished. Hitler converted an entire peaceful nation into mass murderers and over 7 million humans died. Stalin, the worst of all dictators, merciless killed at least 20 million people. Putin, who is often compared to Stalin, is amassing a large number of deaths including pregnant women in Ukrainian hospitals, children in kindergarten, and thousands upon thousands of innocents.
While the American media spotlight, ever enthralled by the sensationalism of the moment, remains fixated on the whirlwind of legal woes orbiting Trump, a crucial and overlooked danger continues to unfold in our country. The influence of Putin's strategies quietly attempts to reshape the trajectory of American politics - especially by his influence and control over Trump and Trump supporters such as MAGA and others in our Congress.
For example, the House of Representatives is recommending a new federal budget without money to support the Ukrainian war. Putin, via Iran, play a major role in the implementation of the Hamas attack on Israel. As a result, the U.S. media has focused 99% of their time on Israel and has forgotten about the inhumane annihilation of Ukrainian citizens and the obliteration of a sovereign nation.
If this proposed budget is not approved, the Republicans can shut down our government for an indefinite period of time. Trump closed the USG for 36 days during his presidency. This was the longest period in the history of our country. In either case - Putin wins. If our government closes - we are more vulnerable. If the budget is approved without support for Ukraine, it increases Russia's chances of eradicating the country of Ukraine and absorbing this land into Russia.
I live in a small mountainous town in Northern Arizona. We have a Nazi group here who drive around in pickup trucks with swastika stickers on the rear bumpers and Trump flags waving. They meet weekly in a building on Main Street and think Trump was the best President to ever to hold that office. This is frightening beyond words.
I recently read or heard somewhere, I lose track,
that Chris Sununu could be the key to stopping Trump in New Hampshire. He is the most popular politician in the state, he is a 2nd generation politician, and the Sununu grassroots network in the state is vast and deep. The Sununu endorsement could really move the needle in a state where Trump is vulnerable. In my “stop Trump at all costs” brain, he seemed like a potential hero (though I disagree with him on most policy). To read now he would still vote for Trump in a general election is mind boggling, sad, and enraging.
Remember at the first debate, all of the candidates except Christie and Hutchison -- even Pence! -- said they'd vote for Trump if he's the nominee.
Abridged article by Tom Nichols of the "Atlantic" magazine:
"The Republicans Who Won’t Quit Trump. The GOP establishment is coming home to the former president—again."
Career Over Country
Breaking up, Neil Sedaka told us many years ago, is hard to do. But it shouldn’t be impossible. When a Republican governor describes Donald Trump as a “three-time loser,” warns that the party will lose “up and down the ballot” if Trump is the 2024 Republican presidential nominee, and calls the former president “fucking crazy,” it’s easy to imagine a responsible politician who has packed his bags and is waiting on the steps of the GOP’s Delta House for his taxi back to the world of sensible adults.
Governor Chris Sununu of New Hampshire, however, is not such a politician.
Sununu gained a lot of media attention and applause from the Never Trump Republicans for being one of the former president’s most brutal critics. But now that Trump is all but inevitable as the GOP nominee, Sununu is bashing Joe Biden and embracing Trump as the lesser of two evils.
“Did you see [Trump’s] last visit to New Hampshire?” Sununu said to reporters earlier this month. “He was comparing himself to Nelson Mandela and talking about Jesus Christ being speaker of the House—it was kooky talk … He sounds almost as bad as Joe Biden.”
Almost as bad as Joe Biden?
I will be the first to note, as I did here, that Biden’s reputation as a walking gaffe hazard is well deserved. He gets carried away, embellishes, and remembers things that didn’t happen (a sign, I think, more of his penchant for self-important Irish blarneying than of his age). He spent his life as a senator; senators talk a lot, and sometimes they say dumb stuff.
But to compare Biden’s blunders to Trump’s derangement is inane. Trump’s mind often slips the surly bonds of Earth: He has claimed that he won all 50 states in the 2020 election, invented people who invariably call him “sir,” lied endlessly about an astonishing number of things, embraced the QAnon conspiracy theories, and, as Sununu himself admits, compared himself to Jesus Christ.
Biden is a competent politician who sometimes stumbles or goes off the rails in his public statements. Trump is a disturbed, emotionally disordered person who, in Liz Cheney’s words, is “the most dangerous man ever to inhabit the Oval Office.”
So why is Sununu going to vote for Trump? Because Republicans have to win. That’s it. “I just want Republicans to win,” Sununu told Puck’s Tara Palmeri in a podcast released yesterday. “That’s all I care about.”
Perhaps if Sununu had been forced from office or personally threatened by Trump supporters, he might feel differently—or at least be less inclined to stand for such mindless hyper-partisanship.
Numbed by opportunism, many Republicans will simply hunker down and try to survive the next five years. They’re all sure that, after that, it’ll be their time, and they will triumphantly cobble together a new GOP coalition out of independents, moderate Republicans, and what’s left of the MAGA vote, gaining that last group by assuring Trump’s base that no matter what they may have said about their idol, at least they never went over the fence and voted for a Democrat.
But these ambitious Republicans are also under a self-serving delusion that the next Trump term will be something like the first Trump term. They assume that adults will somehow restrain Trump and that the nation will function more or less normally while Trump goes off to his beloved rallies.
They are committed to the fantasy that four more years of a mad king will be akin to weathering one more passing storm. (They have also likely convinced themselves, as Nikki Haley did while working for Trump, that they can best limit the damage by being in the mix of GOP politics, rather than by being excommunicated.)
This dream narrative ends with the normal Republicans emerging from their tornado shelters, surveying some limited and reparable damage, and restoring the center-right, conservative kingdom. President Haley or Senator Meijer will get the GOP back to cutting taxes and erasing government regulations, all while mending fences with millions of people who were horrified by the violence and madness of Trumpism.
None of that is going to happen.
Trump has made it clear that he has no regrets about any ghastly thing he did as president, that as president again he will bring a legion of goons and cronies with him into the White House (including seditionists and rioters whom he will pardon and release from jail), and that he fully intends to finish the job of burning down American democracy.
Politicians such as Sununu know all of this, but they apparently think they will remain untouched by it. They have put their party and their personal fortunes over their allegiance to the Constitution, perhaps hoping that they will at least have a chance to rule over whatever is left in the ashes of the republic.
Tom Nichols
------------------------------------------------
Sununu is the classic political hack. He comes from a familiar-line of pols in New Hampshire, thus as safe as any elected official (BTW - he says he will not run for governor again), and he now has changed his tune from "Trump will never get the nomination" to "At least Trump isn't as bad as Biden."
When Trump acts in the ways he is constantly claiming, thus turning America into being "Russia-Adjacent," Sununu will clutch his pearls and bemoan that America is turning into an Autocracy.
"If only someone told us!!!"
Chris Sununu is a jackass who lives for attention and Sunday shows.
Not much work to be done by a governor of New Hampshire.
Exactly. He has always seemed like a not particularly bright jerk to me.
This ties in with a very grim opinion piece in the WaPo by Robert Kagen https://wapo.st/47QyFY1 Why are so many Republicans blindly following the Franz von Papen model?
I'm just stunned. This piece is clearly the worst case scenario, but it's frighteningly accurate in its observations about people and their actions and how we slide quietly into situations such as the one we are in. I was most impressed (horrified?) by the description of the barriers and sacrifices folks would have had to make all along the way, and how action continues to be shunted off to an imaginary "someone else" to make the sacrifice and take a stand. I was actually very worried about this when Mueller opted to not make any judgments or accusations against Trump and let the Attorney General and Justice Department make the call. I understood he assumed the "institution" would be the savior here, but it was obvious to anyone with brain he was wrong. That was back when the bar was low. So so many missed opportunities. Thanks for the link.
Glad you found it interesting. I was impressed by its throughness as well.
Thanks for the link. That is a truly frightening, but very believable, scenario for the next year.
Yes, it is.
Thank you for the link to this thoroughly frightening article.
My pleasure (if that's the right way of putting it). It *is* frightening.
How is it that we all keep acting surprised by the actions of these Republicans?!?!
We've watched this cowardice unfold over nearly 9 years now.
This isn't new. This isn't a surprise.
This doesn't even move the needle emotionally for me anymore.
Long ago, I decided I'd use actions like these as fuel to engage any fence-riders. But beyond that, I can't get mad at this anymore bc I'm numb to it. Similar to how inaction on gun violence has become. Hard to be mad anymore bc this is US. We've decided these things are OK.....en masse....when we repeatedly vote in legislators....governors....Presidents who value campaign contributions, amassing/retainimg power than actually solving problems.
For far too long we've believed in American Exceptionalism that frankly isn't very well....exceptional.
Truly F@#@ing crazy. I just don't get them. Putting party ahead of country. I miss the days of Bluedog Democrats and moderate Republicans and agree we are more vulnerable than ever. Scary times ahead!
Agree with this Chris. Silly me thought Sununu would be one of the good guys at one point. Nope, another spineless GOP member who would rather have an insurrectionist, authoritarian, liar, cheater, etc., etc., in the Oval Office. Sickening.
Sununu doesn’t realize it yet, but his criticism of Donald J Trump has him squarely on the Trump “enemies” list. His vote for Trump will be meaningless in the eyes of Trump…..and retribution has been promised.
Unfortunately Sununu won’t be the only one who does this.
Thank you Chris for laying bare so clearly the four step logic by GOP NH Gov. John Sununu that any Democratic opponent is unacceptable compared to Trump who he has personally excoriated in great detail as insane, crazy and unfit to be President, As a respected authority figure, Gov. Sununu creates a very dangerous permission structure recommendation to every American voter to willingly approve Trump's promise to become a dictator by systematically challenging, if not destroying, all of the institutional checks and balances in our Constitution that allow democratic self-governance replacing them with crony capitalism and mob intimidation/violence against people who oppose him. It's tantamount to Sununu saying that he prefers Big Brother's lie that 2 + 2 = 5 and so should we and our progeny.
Chris, that's why I try to always catch your stuff. It's right on and it's powerful. Keep up the good work, my man!
Is this Chris Sununu throwing his hat in the ring for veep?
I’m sure if Trump gets elected again, Sununu can find ways to rationalize away anything he does.
He'll be able to moderate the lunacy! --- Yeah, right.