Mitt Romney is retiring and isn't holding back
Mitt Romney is retiring and isn't holding back
He offers a scathing rebuke to many members of his party in a new biography
Say what you will about Mitt Romney, the senator from Utah and former governor of Massachusetts and former presidential candidate, but he is, without question, a fundamentally decent person. And I think that decency has led him to take stock of both the state of the Republican Party and of our politics generally and to say, “I’m done.”
But he’s not going away quietly. He commissioned McKay Coppins to write his biography, and in an excerpt from the book published in the Atlantic, he revealed, for one, that much of the Republican Party does not believe in the Constitution and that many in the party, since they are old, are clinging to office, because they would not know what to do with themselves in retirement.
It makes for a sobering read. And it’s scary, because the men and women of character are saying they want nothing to do with political life anymore. So we’re left with people who are utterly unscrupulous or unhinged. Or both.
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