> he is an ally. This gaffe does not change that.
I’m afraid it changes a lot more than you credit, here.
Conservatives have a long history of scam artists and traitors who talk the talk and then stab us in the back at the moment of truth.
Peterson not even being an American is outside of his rights to call for the resignation of a US Supreme Court justice. This is called “foreign interference”.
This raises a couple of very serious issues with Peterson. One, he doesn’t respect Americans’ right to make our own decisions in these matters. Two, when it matters the most, Peterson’s thinking has led him to one of the worst possible conclusions on this issue imaginable. So clearly, there is something very very wrong with the way he thinks about the world, if he thought forfeiting the win after it has been earned is not only reasonable, but advisable.
He’s starting to smell a lot like Glenn Beck - earned our trust for the purposes of achieving a high-impact betrayal.
This gaffe wasn’t a moment of truth for JBP and I’m not sure how you could argue it was. It’s not like he was a Senate vote.