They say elephants never forget. Well, I’m no GOP elephant but simply an old political hand and history teacher with a keen analytical memory of how Lord Acton’s famous dictum, “Power tends to corrupt, and absolute power corrupts absolutely,” has been proven irrefutable. From the beginnings of the Republic, partisan internecine conflict motivated by power lust, hubris, and revenge has characterized our history. From the days of Alexander Hamilton versus Aaron Burr, Andrew Jackson versus John Quincy Adams, Abraham Lincoln versus Stephen Douglas, to the present this has been the case. The ultimate judgment of the historical record has not been largely one of Profiles in Courage, but Profiles in Duplicity, Rancor, and Corruption. Base politicians were ultimately outted and shown to be not what court historians and the regime media claimed but something entirely else. Think of these modern contemporary examples and their records of disgrace and perfidy — Lyndon Johnson, Richard Nixon, Ronald Reagan, George H. W. Bush, Bill Clinton, George W. Bush, John McCain, Barack Obama, Hillary Clinton and Jeb Bush. To this Roll of Dishonor we might add that of Mitt Romney. I am not only considering his recent unctuous self-serving behavior in the Trump impeachment imbroglio but his earlier unforgettable conduct against the man who will go down in the annals of history as America’s greatest statesman (.pdf)
Mitt Romney has finally earned his just desserts as a pariah and we await his banishment to the barren deserts of Utah.
8:37 am on February 6, 2020
