I am hereby “grudgingly impressed”—a lot!—by Senator Mitt’s suddenly bold stand to vote for President Trump’s removal from office. I wrote the “grudgingly impressed” line a couple of days ago when I didn’t really think that Mitt or pseudo-skeptic Susan Collins really had the nerve to pull the trigger on the big guy, but I was wrong, and Mitt was a braver man than I ever expected he would be.
I guess you can think up some “unworthy” reasons for Mitt’s sudden virtue—this is the only time I’ve felt the slightest urge to praise him—but so what? To expose himself to the universal vilification of virtually every Republican in the country—there’s no upside for Mitt in what he did. Even if he believes that the Democrats will nominate him instead of Bernie or whomever as their standard bearer in 2020 out of sheer gratitude, and that he will surge in triumph in November, which he surely doesn’t, well, let the guy dream, whatever he’s dreaming. He did his duty, unlike every other Goddamn Republican in the country. And you can never take that away from him.
