Conservative columnist Jennifer Rubin -- as big a "never-Trumper" as there is -- was quick to call out the colleagues of Rep. Justin Amash (R-MI) who turned on him or remained silent after the GOP lawmaker made the irrefutable case that special counsel Robert Mueller's report showed Donald Trump committed impeachable crimes.
In a quickly put-together column for the Washington Post, Rubin ripped into representatives of the party she once belonged to, calling them both "grovelers" and "quivering sycophants" -- neither a term of endearment.
According to Rubin, "Why are Republicans such quivering sycophants, willing to lie and debase themselves in support of an unpopular president who is repudiating many of the principles they have spent their lives advancing?"
There are, she notes, three types of Republicans populating Congress right now.
"First are the cynics who know Trump is unfit, if not dangerous; however, they’ll get what they can (e.g., judges, tax cuts) and bolster their resumes (e.g., working for the administration, getting fawning Fox News coverage). When Trump bottoms out, they’ll move on, probably insisting they were secretly against Trump all along," she began.
"In the second category are Republicans convinced that they’ll never find work if they speak out against Trump," she continued. " They’ll lose their offices and/or offend Republican officialdom, including think tanks, right-wing media, donors, party activists, and elected officials. (They are part of a right-wing ecosystem; some might call it a racket.) No plum lobbying gigs or Fox contributorships for them. They fear ostracism would ruin them financially and personally, leaving them in a political wilderness from which they fear they’d never return."
Lastly, "there are the cranks, the zealots, the racists and the haters — a group, it turns out, much larger than many ex-Republicans could ever fathom. This includes not just the overt white nationalists and the tea party crowd but also those who have been simmering with personal resentment against 'liberal elites.'"
"Vice President Pence insists he and his fellow evangelical Christians are hapless victims; the children and grandchildren of Dixiecrats fume that everything went downhill in the 1960s. Some of these people will insist they are not racists nor misogynists — but yet they sure seem to have an extraordinarily high tolerance for those who are," she added.
"I’d love to think Amash’s statements free and embolden many more Republicans in the House and Senate to step forward," she lamented before conceding, "Is that likely? No."
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