"Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.), who's said he may vote this month to convict
former President Trump on an article of impeachment, is pushing back
against possible retaliation from the Nebraska Republican State Central
Committee by warning that his party must choose between "conservatism
and madness."
Cheers to Ben Sasse. If one is a regular watcher of MSNBC one has seen
Ben Sasse interviewed by a commentator like Joe Scarborough numbers of
times. He is one of the heroes like Steve Schmidt of the Lincoln
Project, Republicans cut from a civil cloth and separating from the
insanity of some of the current composition of the Republican Party.
I
have said it is good that Marjorie Taylor Green was not expelled from
the House because she serves to split the Republicrat Party down the
middle so that it will become easier for Democrats to hopefully win more
seats in the future and take a more commanding majority in both the
House and the Senate. Republicans with their extremist Proud Boys,
Boogaloo Bois and QANON crackpots will mean, I hope, doom for the
Republican Party and that is, I believe, a good thing.
While
I like what Ben Sasse has to say I will never, of course, be
Republican. Unlike Sasse I do not believe in limited government which
got Herbert Hoover canned when FDR was elected for the first of four
terms to the White House because of his policy of strong government
action. If they truly believed in limited government they would not
deafeningly oppose a person's choice for a mate in marriage, a personal
choice for the termination of a pregnancy and they would strongly
support civil rights. I believe in government when necessary when it is
impossible for the nation to survive without its economic help like now
and I believe in the strong arm of government to stand against
discrimination, against voter suppression and for individual choice on
matters of private personal decisions.
Liberalism
is the only way if one is concerned about the nation's economic
welfare, fair and just government with respect to human rights and, yes,
individualism when it comes to personal matters of choice.
