02-01-2021, 10:48 PM
Ted King wrote:
I'm going to assume that you are okay with the phrase, "done enough deleterious things to not be worthy of credit for doing something worthy". As with most issues like this, I look at it as a continuum from "done hardly any deleterious things so deserve credit for worthy things they do" to "done German Nazi amount of deleterious things and don't deserve credit for any worthy thing they do". People can judge where they would put Kinzinger on that continuum. I'm thinking you and Lemon are putting him on different places on that continuum. Not judging, just making an observation - or maybe better to say that I'm sharing my speculation about how this shakes out.
That's a fair assessment.
It appears to me that now, if you are in the GOP and publicly acknowledge reality, Democrats are eager to give you cookies.
I'm disinclined to forget that this man's political career is grounded in his denial of other people's rights, and pursuing a Trump agenda (he voted with the president's priorities 90% of the time) which has led to the unnecessary deaths of hundreds of thousands of people, the separation of thousands of children from their parents, and the embrace of bigotry in the face of progress.
His latter-day willingness to separate from his peers and observe his oath of office hardly qualifies him for praise. He is due for repentance and acknowledgment of the harm he participated in over the last several years, not PAC contributions from Democrats so that he can save his party.