Jeff Flake Talks of the ‘Madness Unspooling From the White House’: Trump Is ‘Destroying Us’
While several Republican lawmakers plan to challenge the electoral votes during Congress’ joint session, former Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) is calling on them to stand up to “to the rank corruptions of a demagogue.”…
While several Republican lawmakers plan to challenge the electoral votes during Congress’ joint session, former Sen. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) is calling on them to stand up to “to the rank corruptions of a demagogue.”
Flake, who retired from the Senate in 2019, penned an op-ed in The New York Times published on Wednesday, where he wrote, “There is power in standing up to the rank corruptions of a demagogue.”
“Mr. Trump can’t hurt you. But he is destroying us,” Flake wrote, taking aim at President Donald Trump.
Flake wrote that as Trump “crosses that rubicon” with being in an “alternate reality in which he won,” the president “has taken many in my party with him, all of whom seem to have learned the wrong lessons from this anomalous presidency.”
He added, “If the only acceptable outcome is for your side to win, and a loser simply refuses to lose, then America is imperiled.”
Flake also touched on his time in Congress, and the end to it: