“I don’t get the crying need some of these ‘Republican’ politicians have to flip-flop on issues.”
I think it’s because only President Trump and a scant few other Republican politicians understand that big government is corrupt by its very nature.
Instead, most Republicans - even many well-meaning ones - believe big government can be tamed for the good. They fight corruption where they see it, but at the same time they defend and even nurture the big government that enables corruption, thrives on it, and exists to feed it.
“Power corrupts; absolute power corrupts absolutely”. I forget who to credit with that timeless statement of truth, but it describes to a T the ascension of our huge federal behemoth and it’s various sycophants, parasites and lobbyists.
The Democrat Party, it’s MSM mouthpiece and the permanent deep state bureaucracy are, of course, out-of-the-closet lovers of big government and openly embrace the swamp. They ARE the big government, they ARE the corruption - their behavior is understandable and predictable - they are the hungry wolves tearing at the flesh of the Republic, feeding - trying to stay alive.
The behavior of most Republicans is more perplexing - they flip-flop between right and wrong - often seeming to make the right promises, but then failing to keep them.
I don’t think it can all be explained by fickleness, or being “compromised”.
I think many of them have the stirrings of a conscience and the desire to fight evil when they see it - but they DON’T see it. They are not convinced, as we are, that the federal government is orders of magnitude too big - and therefore hopelessly corrupted and teaming with parasites. It must be gotten rid of, not tamed. But even many of the good guys in politics fail to see that. One exception is President Trump, and nearly everyone in DC hates him for it - he is a threat to their very existence.
Lindsey Graham, when confronted with true evil during the Kavanaugh hearings/smearings, stood squarely against it. He fought passionately to defend this innocent man against an evil attack. But like so many elected Republicans, he also defends big government against attack with the same passion.
He is oblivious to the fact that big government and evil are one-in-the-same.
D Day reminds us that perhaps some of this same schizophrenia exists in all of us: At times, we have entrusted the federal government with the awesome power needed to end slavery, liberate Europe and the South Pacific, win the Cold War, become the sole superpower and economic giant that we are.
All noble causes to be sure, but are we then complicit in allowing the federal government to expand irrevocably beyond the limits placed on it by the Founders?
“...I don’t think it can all be explained by fickleness, or being “compromised”...”
Maybe so, but-it seems to me that, THAT is why an ‘oath of office’ is administered. At that point you commit to the party and their vision.
I don’t think anyone in the GOP will ask fellow Republicans to tear babies in half and eat them...however, kicking and screaming like unreasonable children every single time you feel the President OWES absolute deference to YOU and YOUR views, can hardly be called ‘allegiance’ of any kind.
Sit down with the man and do ‘politics’ to get past it or to reach some agreement on how to go forward. It’s WHY you were elected and took that ‘oath’. But DON’T openly and gratuitously impede his every plan and defy every word he utters.
Republican Congressmen need to control their personal egos and support THIS President or else return GOP campaign money, change parties and campaign to take his place. It’s that simple.
The President deserves MUCH better!!