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It's refreshing to see someone stand on their on two feet and not ride trump's coattails.

GOP Rep. Kinzinger wages a lonely fight against Trump’s falsehoods and right-wing disinformation

https://www.washingtonpost.com...7153d10c2_story.html

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In a wide-ranging interview Friday, Kinzinger elaborated on his concerns about Trump, a fraying national political culture, the psychology of Republican lawmakers and the party’s future beyond the Trump presidency. Most pointedly, he expressed his dismay with Trump’s attempts to attack the backbone of American democracy: its election system and the long tradition of peaceful transition between presidents.

“A lot of governments struggle to have just a modicum of what we do,” he said. “I’ve traveled [abroad] so many times with Democrats and been like: ‘Look, we are friends, even if we disagree.’ And when you start to see that model wear thin, you realize the impact of that around the world is huge. . . . The one thing that has held this country together is the understanding that we can pass the baton based on election results and not on power.”

Other Republicans, including the top GOP congressional leaders, have barely acknowledged that Biden is the president-elect, let alone criticized Trump’s long campaign — dating back months — to undermine public confidence in the election. Many of those who have spoken out — such as Sen. Patrick J. Toomey (R-Pa.), Rep. Paul Mitchell (R-Mich.) and Rep. Francis Rooney (R-Fla.) — are leaving Congress and will not have to face GOP voters again.


In a wide-ranging interview Friday, Kinzinger elaborated on his concerns about Trump, a fraying national political culture, the psychology of Republican lawmakers and the party’s future beyond the Trump presidency. Most pointedly, he expressed his dismay with Trump’s attempts to attack the backbone of American democracy: its election system and the long tradition of peaceful transition between presidents.

“A lot of governments struggle to have just a modicum of what we do,” he said. “I’ve traveled [abroad] so many times with Democrats and been like: ‘Look, we are friends, even if we disagree.’ And when you start to see that model wear thin, you realize the impact of that around the world is huge. . . . The one thing that has held this country together is the understanding that we can pass the baton based on election results and not on power.”

Other Republicans, including the top GOP congressional leaders, have barely acknowledged that Biden is the president-elect, let alone criticized Trump’s long campaign — dating back months — to undermine public confidence in the election. Many of those who have spoken out — such as Sen. Patrick J. Toomey (R-Pa.), Rep. Paul Mitchell (R-Mich.) and Rep. Francis Rooney (R-Fla.) — are leaving Congress and will not have to face GOP voters again.


Kinzinger credits his military service, which was driven by the 9/11 attacks and included combat missions in Iraq and Afghanistan, as a formative event in developing his attitude toward politics in the Trump era. The second, he said, was a 2006 encounter in Milwaukee, where he subdued a knife-wielding man who had slashed his girlfriend’s throat during a street dispute. Kinzinger, then a 28-year-old unarmed bystander, wrested away the knife and jumped atop the man till police arrived.

“It does change your perspective,” he said. “When you’re laying around in your twilight years, you’re not going to be wishing you spent more time angry or comporting to whatever the view of the day was. You’re going to be proud of standing up.”

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Meanwhile...

Just 27 congressional Republicans acknowledge Biden’s win, Washington Post survey finds

https://www.washingtonpost.com...a1adb3839_story.html

Reps. Paul A. Gosar (Ariz.) and Mo Brooks (Ala.) are the only Republicans in Congress who have publicly insisted Trump is the winner. Gosar has spent several weeks embracing the disproved conspiracy theory that the Dominion voting machines used in Arizona, Georgia and some other states manipulated the results and stole the election for Biden.

He said he will never accept the Democrat as the legitimately elected president. “No, never. Too much evidence of fraud,” he said.

But Brooks and Gosar are extreme outliers on Capitol Hill, with the overwhelming majority of Republicans content to avoid the question. Many have stated that somehow the Dec. 14 meeting of the electoral college, in all 50 states, will provide a clear winner — perhaps expecting Trump to concede that point.

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