Don’t know if this is the proper forum for this post but this made me sad.Political commentator and columnist Mark Shields dies at 85 - POLITICO
He knew his history.
It is a great loss.
He did notice the kind of dishonor that was going on with a National party:
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JUDY WOODRUFF: And what makes it more, in my mind, a question, Mark, is that most elected Republican officials are backing the president in what he’s doing. They’re saying he has every right to challenge.
Very few of them are saying that he’s – what he’s doing is wrong.
MARK SHIELDS: Judy, they have taken a vow of silence, apparently.
The most amazing moment of the week to me politically was to find out that “Meet the Press” last Sunday called every single Republican senator and invited him or her to be on the show that Sunday, and every one of them turned “Meet the Press” down. Now, I mean, that is unheard of, to be invited to an important forum like that.
Senators jump at that opportunity historically. And what you’re back to his Dante’s great quote that the hottest places in hell are reserved for those who, in a time of moral crisis, remain neutral. I mean, that’s what they have done. They have taken this vow of silence, with conspicuous consumption. They are enabling him.
And they are undoing democracy. And they’re doing enormous damage, I mean, saying, well, just humor him. Humor him along a little while.
And that was after the 2020 election… and before the January 6th insurrection.