Where Is the Republican Outrage?
August 16, 2017 at 10:57 am EDT By Taegan Goddard
Matt Latimer: It is all so surrealthe most apt and yet overused word of the Trump presidency. Can this all really be happening? Is it all a dream? Of course, the most important question, speaking as a Republican for many years, was this: Where is everybody?
In the hours that passed since the presidents remarksin which he seemed to alternately take to task and defend the motives of both sides of last weekends march in Charlottesville numerous outlets cited the ensuing bipartisan outrage. The suggestion is that Republicans, too, have taken the president to task.
No, they havent. Not most of them. The most prominent GOP officeholders in this countrymany of whom I personally know to be good peoplehave made oblique criticisms of the president on social media or, more often than not, said nothing. Thats not true of everyoneMarco Rubio and Cory Gardner are standouts, for examplebut it is depressingly true in general.
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