Soulless 4 chart12/29/2023 Class was in session, and Putin was going to teach the West a lesson.īut Putin’s lesson plan has gone badly awry. But he wanted to do it in a way that would show everyone how much the West is weak and divided and how much Ukraine is not a real country, by overrunning the place in a week. His reckless decision to invade Ukraine was fueled by a desire to halt NATO’s and the European Union’s expansion closer to Russia’s borders. He is also obsessed with the loss of Russian power, dignity and respect - which resulted from the fall of the Soviet Union - and the need to restore it. Putin, though, is not just obsessed with holding his own power and ready to violate any norm to retain it. Because if such a shameless and shameful hack like McCarthy is able to sell his soul to enough people to become speaker of the House, he becomes second in line for the presidency, after the vice president.Īnd it’s a threat because everything McCarthy and his colleagues did erodes the distinction between our system and the one led by the man with no soul - Vladimir Putin, who also will not hesitate to use any means to hold on to power, whether by jailing or allegedly poisoning his critics or by poisoning democracies with disinformation. This trend is as much a threat to American democracy as anything Putin is doing. This is the new “McCarthyism” - Kevin McCarthyism - where a politician can say anything, even lie about telling the truth, and get away with it. And even worse, when McCarthy’s lying and bad character were exposed, many in his party backed him up anyway. When he realized that doing the right thing for the country might cost him Trump’s support and his dream of becoming speaker of the House, McCarthy lied about telling the truth. colleagues privately was his stance.īut McCarthy then revealed his true character. Most lawmakers would want the world to believe that when everything was on the line for America, they told the truth and stood with the Constitution against a president trying to subvert it. basketball coach John Wooden liked to say that “the true test of a man’s character is what he does when no one is watching.” Trump magnanimously pardons the bootlicking McCarthy for his sin of telling the truth. 4: McCarthy - instead of apologizing to his constituents and the American people for lying - calls Trump to explain himself and why he should remain in Trump’s good graces. 10 House Republican leadership conference that his plan was to tell Trump that his impeachment “will pass and it would be my recommendation you should resign” - exactly what McCarthy hours earlier denied saying.Īct. 3: That night, thanks to a leaked audio recording posted by The Times and aired on Rachel Maddow’s MSNBC show, the whole world got to hear McCarthy telling a Jan. 2: After these revelations were published last Thursday morning, McCarthy issues a statement declaring that “The New York Times’ reporting on me is totally false and wrong.”Īct. 6 as “atrocious and totally wrong.” Trump was likely to be impeached, McCarthy said, so he intended to recommend to him, “You should resign.”Īct. “I’ve had it with this guy,” McCarthy said, and described Trump’s actions on Jan. colleagues about his feelings about President Donald Trump in the immediate aftermath of the Jan. We are indebted to the reporting by my Times colleagues Jonathan Martin and Alexander Burns to fully appreciate how much McCarthy’s behavior is a profile in cowardice in four acts:Īct 1: Martin and Burns quote McCarthy as having told his G.O.P. The second person I am thinking about is Kevin McCarthy, the Republican leader in the House - a man who, we now know, did not have the courage to stick with his own fleeting manifestation of courage. That doesn’t just make for a better Europe it makes for a better world. They are defending the possibility of a Europe whole and free - where one country cannot simply devour another. Because they are not just defending Ukraine. If Ukraine’s leaders choose to cut a peace deal with Russia, we should help bolster them in negotiations, but as long as they choose to fight, we should help arm them.
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