I’m scared and confused. I’ve started to find myself agreeing with things MTG says.
Don’t be confused. MTG hasn’t changed. She’s just concerned that the shutdown will negatively affect her career. In times of personal reckoning republicans can sometimes find moral clarity like a brief glimpse of the sun on a stormy day. Once the storm has passed she’ll revert to the classic MTG.
not to take away from being cautious in all this, but… I’d still welcome the self-interested approach to politics that is “I want to do what’s popular with my voters to stay in power”…
I mean, yea, arguably it’s not doing politics out of a need to serve or to a duty to “help the people”… but it’s still preferable to “I do what’s popular with my rich donors to stay in power”…
But, I also don’t trust it at all from MTG. She’s a grifter, has been and always will be. But if this kind of attitude was coming from any other politician, I’d think that’s kind of bare minimum, right?