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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRobert Reich's suggests a drastic act to GOP Senators in a striking letter
Robert Reich continues to be one of the major intellectual leaders in the Progressive movement and the resistance to Donald Trump's tyranny and the GOP's complicity. He has a request of a few Republican senators that will make them heroes in American history if they oblige.
https://egbertowillies.com/2018/07/21/robert-reichs-gop-senators/
Oneironaut
(5,487 posts)CozyMystery
(652 posts)"If just two of you changed parties becoming Independent, and caucusing with the Democrats the Republican Party would no longer have a majority in the Senate. The Senate would become a check on the President, as the Framers of the Constitution envisioned it would be."
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)BigmanPigman
(51,569 posts)Indep. saving face (integrity, self respect) and possibly their political future. I wonder which GOP Senators would consider the idea. Collins is a wimp so maybe Murkowski. The GOP members who do speak up are retiring. McCain is out of the picture. Who is realistically left?