The Sin of Conscience (Having One)

Posted on February 17, 2021 by JMN
A Trump supporter wearing a paper mask of the former president’s face at a rally in Pennsylvania in 2018. Credit… Damon Winter/The New York Times.

Senator Pat Toomey of Pennsylvania is one of 7 Republican senators who voted to convict the former president during his impeachment trial. Toomey has said he will not run for reelection in 2022.

  • WASHINGTON, DC – JANUARY 30: Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) leaves the Senate chamber during a recess in the Senate impeachment trial of U.S. President Donald Trump continues at the U.S. Capitol on January 30, 2020 in Washington, DC. On Thursday, Senators continue asking questions for the House impeachment managers and the president’s defense team. (Photo by Drew Angerer/Getty Images)

“We did not send him there to vote his conscience. We did not send him there to do the right thing or whatever he said he’s doing,” one Pennsylvania Republican Party official explained. “We sent him there to represent us.”

(Jamelle Bouie, “If There Was a Republican Civil War, It Appears to Be Over,” NYTimes, 2-17-21)

The thing speaks of, by and for itself (and the G.O.P.).

(c) 2021 JMN

About JMN

I live in Texas and devote much of my time to easel painting on an amateur basis. I stream a lot of music, mostly jazz, throughout the day. I like to read and memorize poetry.
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