• Nightwingdragon@lemmy.world
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    5 months ago

    Absolutely. They’re all guilty of it. Ryan, Cheney, Romney, all of them. They all spoke out against Trump once they had nothing left to lose, but marched in lockstep with him before that. And I’m sure that at least some of the reason that they speak out against him is because until he did, they all thought Trump would never turn his back on them, and they’re shocked (shocked!) when they find out they’re not a special little snowflake to Trump, and can be easily discarded the minute they no longer serve a purpose to him, just like everybody else.

    I’m just saying that Paul has likely calculated that trying to endear himself to the moderates of the party and right-leaning independent voters is better for him than going full MAGA. I’m not saying he’s right, but it may be what he’s thinking.

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      5 months ago

      What? Cheney and Romney spoke out way before they had nothing left to lose.

      Those are two very rare examples of the OPPOSITE of the point you were trying to make.

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      5 months ago

      Only reason I don’t believe he sucks trump off Is because there l’s really not that much of it to go around,