Smarmy coward who wouldn’t remove Trump a year ago Ben Sasse writes a great essay

[FlickShagwell]

Many great points made by what passes for “sane” on the right in this essay by Ben Sasse, who again, has NEVER taken a meaningful and courageous stand against Donald Trump and the right’s basket of deplorables.

Worth the read, though.

QAnon Is Destroying the GOP From Within

Until last week, too many in the Republican Party thought they could preach the Constitution and wink at QAnon. They can’t.

www.theatlantic.com

 

[Hawk It Up]

Ben Sasse is a POS. There. I said it.

And I’ll also say, I didn’t think that of him until about a year ago. I actually figured him to be a decent guy.

He’s not.

 

[IACub]

Congrats. Sherlock, you finally pieced together what every single intelligent person has been screaming for years.

 

[ConvenientParking]

A Democrat is not winning statewide in Nebraska anytime soon. Give me Ben Sasse and not the idiot lining up to primary him now that he released this.

 

[CarolinaHawkeye]

Ben Sasse is a POS. There. I said it.

And I’ll also say, I didn’t think that of him until about a year ago. I actually figured him to be a decent guy.

He’s not.

Anyone who has ever supported trump is a POS in my opinion.

 

[What Would Jesus Do?]

Ben Sasse, who again, has NEVER taken a meaningful and courageous stand against Donald Trump and the right’s basket of deplorables.

Yep.

Another Susan Collins when it comes to action.

 

[IAHawk2011]

Sasse enabled everything Trump has done and only spoke up when it became politically expedient for him to do so. Sasse is a coward. Better late than never though, I suppose.

 

[cfbfan23]

Anyone who has ever supported trump is a POS in my opinion.

People who voted for him in '16 but not in '20 should get a POS pass.

 

[noleclone2]

If only someone could have predicted this a year ago, we all could have been saved. And ~200-300k more Americans would be alive right now as a bonus.

 

[What Would Jesus Do?]

Susan Collins hints that she knows the right things to do, but too often fails to do them.

Sasse (and Flake before him) show that they clearly know the right things to do but, like Collins, rarely do them.

Does that leave Romney - the vulture captalist who, let's not forget, is mainly interested in helping his own class - as the best Republican?

 

[Titanhawk2]

Seriously, who cares what these people write. They DO nothing, and we hang on their every word

 

[millah_22]

Many great points made by what passes for “sane” on the right in this essay by Ben Sasse, who again, has NEVER taken a meaningful and courageous stand against Donald Trump and the right’s basket of deplorables.

Worth the read, though.

QAnon Is Destroying the GOP From Within

Until last week, too many in the Republican Party thought they could preach the Constitution and wink at QAnon. They can’t.

www.theatlantic.com

He’s just a rat jumping ship

 

[grapplefann]

Susan Collins hints that she knows the right things to do, but too often fails to do them.

Sasse (and Flake before him) show that they clearly know the right things to do but, like Collins, rarely do them.

Does that leave Romney - the vulture captalist who, let's not forget, is mainly interested in helping his own class - as the best Republican?

Let's give these folks just a little break. After all, some seriously deranged Trump supporters are now threatening them and their families. I'll bet they thought they could outlast the Narcissist-in-Chief, and he would just fade away, but they underestimated just how crazy he, and his supporters, really are.

First, these far right crazies will target the conservative never-Trumpers they consider traitors, and then they'll go after the rest of us regular people. Time for real conservatives to grow a pair and convict the worst president in history.

 

[nu2u]

I score Sasse on the Milgram Shock Experiment Scale.

The Milgram Shock Experiment is the famous psychology study of obedience. It was carried out by Stanley Milgram, a psychologist at Yale. He conducted an experiment focusing on the conflict between obedience to authority and personal conscience. They measured the willingness of study participants, men from a diverse range of occupations with varying levels of education, to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts - in this case, escalating levels of painful shocks to people audibly responding/suffering in an adjacent room.

Sasse is comparable to the experiment participant who would obediently administer a series of increasingly painful shocks until the recipient cried for help. I equate Sasse's silence in the face of Trump's many scandals as another press of the shock button.

A few Milgram participants refused at the beginning or withdrew quickly once they realized that they could not in good conscience follow through on the orders. Relatively speaking, Sasse's conscience allowed him to continue pressing the Trump shock button well past the point of discomfort and into the dimension of injury. His conscience is not as strong as he wants you to believe.

 

[What Would Jesus Do?]

Time for real conservatives to grow a pair and convict the worst president in history.

Agreed.

Do you think they will?

If Dems all vote to convict, 17 Rs need to join them. Just 17 out of 50.

How is it possible that getting even a third of the GOP Senators is in doubt?

 

[What Would Jesus Do?]

I score Sasse on the Milgram Shock Experiment Scale.

The Milgram Shock Experiment is the famous psychology study of obedience. It was carried out by Stanley Milgram, a psychologist at Yale. He conducted an experiment focusing on the conflict between obedience to authority and personal conscience. They measured the willingness of study participants, men from a diverse range of occupations with varying levels of education, to obey an authority figure who instructed them to perform acts - in this case, escalating levels of painful shocks to people audibly suffering in an adjacent room.

Sasse is comparable to the experiment participant who would obediently administer a series of increasingly painful shocks until the recipient cried for help.

A few Milgram participants refused at the beginning or withdrew quickly once they realized that they could not in good conscience follow through on the orders. Relatively speaking, Sasse's conscience allowed him to continue pressing the Trump shock button well past the point of discomfort and into the dimension of injury. His conscience is not as strong as he wants you to believe.

He's the subject who never slows a beat administering shocks while saying "I have some misgivings about this."