Rick Wilson - Kevin Kiley's Profile in Chickensh*t
Every few election cycles, when the polling turns ugly and the district starts looking less like a safe harbor and more like the deck of the Titanic, a certain species of politician performs a familiar ritual to varying degrees of sincerity.
They announce, very gravely, their voices pitched low and solemn, their body language that of a man who has endured the tortures of the damned, that they are “breaking” with their party. “I didn’t leave the party,” they intone, “The party left me.”
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Which brings us to California Congressman Kevin Kiley’s bullshit. Kiley is the Ugg boot of MAGA, a basic-bitch vanilla-latte backbencher, and has apparently decided that the best way to convince voters he’s a bold independent thinker in a moment the MAGA brand is increasingly radioactive, is to stage the political equivalent of a fake breakup on Instagram.
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Kevin Kiley didn’t leave the Republican Party. He changed the label on the box. He’ll still caucus with Republicans in the House.
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