A covid-infected Republican's anger at Trump signals turbulence ahead

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Greg Sargent
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A Michigan Republican dared to criticize Trump.

He faced blowback from local Trump loyalists.

He went to a meeting with them to defend himself.

Very few were wearing masks.

He then tested positive for Covid.

It's the perfect story of our times:

Opinion | A covid-infected Republican’s anger at Trump signals turbulence ahead
How a Republican ended up sick and livid after daring to criticize the disgraced former president.
washingtonpost.com
7:37 AM · Apr 15, 2021

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/04/15/jason-watts-michigan-covid-trump/

Jason Watts, a local Republican official in Michigan, committed the cardinal sin: He dared to criticize Donald Trump. When he went to defend himself against the inevitable blowback at a meeting with the former president’s loyalists, very few were wearing masks.

In so many ways, this story captures our times. But not in a told-you-so kind of manner. Instead, it points to how difficult it may prove to move past the wounds that Trump has inflicted on this nation, and how the eager complicity of many Republicans continues to make them all the worse.

Watts recounted his travails to MLive and the Chicago Tribune, and the story is just starting to go national.

The trouble for Watts, a local GOP committee treasurer, started when he told the New York Times that he had never voted for Trump. Watts lamented the GOP’s lockstep loyalty to Trump, because “this undertone of hatred, this fealty at all costs, it’s going to damage us.”

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[raccoon]

1. Jason Watts for Republican candidate in 2024!

He realizes what a fuckup the former guy was.

[Girard442]

2. Incredible. If Trump demanded they play Russian Roulette, they would.

You know, the hammer falls on an empty chamber 5 out of 6 times. What's the matter? You a liberal snowflake?

[Mad Lib]

3. As the old saying goes...

You lie down with dogs, you wake up with fleas.