The Price of Staying on Your Team

Jonathan Last: “Looking at the Republican field today, it is startling how significantly Trump has changed most of the Good Republicans.”

“Tim Scott has pledged to fire the FBI director on the first day of his presidency, shattering the design of the agency. FBI directors are appointed to 10-year terms specifically so that they will span presidential administrations and be firewalled from partisanship.”

“What is Tim Scott’s justification for wanting to fire Christopher Wray? Because Trump has declared Wray haram. That’s literally the only reason. If Trump hadn’t said anything about firing Wray, then Tim Scott wouldn’t have dreamed of making Wray’s promised firing a pillar of his campaign.”

“And so, Tim Scott’s efforts to remain on the same team have corrupted his entire approach to government and the rule of law.”