The Republican Who Wants to Defeat 'Malignant Narcissist' Trump

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Former Massachusetts Governor Bill Weld seeks to end a presidency he sees as “calculated to destroy the interest of the United States”

Sometimes, in politics, truth is stranger than fiction.

As a cub reporter at Mother Jones in the late Nineties, I wrote an article about novels by American politicians called “Don’t Quit Your Day Job,” reviewing a noir thriller by former Republican Gov. Bill Weld of Massachusetts. Called Mackerel by Moonlight, the page-turner features hard-boiled prose that still make my ribs hurt from laughing: “They turned around like deer in the headlights. Deer who had also been shot.”

Today, Weld himself is the protagonist in a plot that 20 years ago no fiction editor would have greenlighted because it would have strained all bounds of believability: A former New England governor launches a Kamikaze 2020 primary campaign against a corrupt Republican president who is accused of bedding porn stars, dangling pardons for his henchmen — and may just be a Russian asset.

In our democracy’s only-too-real present-day crisis, President Trump is refashioning Republicanism into a cult of personality. And Weld, for one, is having none of it, insisting the Party of Lincoln can’t go without a fight. “I am going to rage against the dying of the light,” he tells Rolling Stone. Weld says he’s trying to uphold the principles of integrity, decency and fairness that first attracted him to public service in the GOP of the 1960s.

-more-

https://www.rollingstone.com/politics/politics-features/who-is-bill-weld-808033/

[RKP5637]

1. K&R !!!!!!!!!!!!! n/t

[asiliveandbreathe]

2. Rage against the dying of the light....for Weld to make any headway against the evil winds

he will need a Republican party willing to push him from behind...there is NO republican party....

Democratic candidates - rise up - gather the masses against this evil...seems to me it is US....who will mass and turn the tide...we cannot afford to be divisive from within....we must be united....on all fronts..I'm lost for words....

[Stuart G]

3. k and r.

[msongs]

4. yawn, call us when he launches a real campaign. nt

[smirkymonkey]

5. I'm all for it.

I would love to see this! I know he would never win the republican primary over Trump, but I think it's important that he gets in there and challenges republicans to re-think their core values. Most of them won't change, but he is capable of showing them what Trump is doing to their party. They won't listen to us, but they might listen to another republican.