re: Crowd at the Faith and Freedom Coalition heckling Mike Pence and calling him a traitor!

A traitor?

Not sure. Unless patriotism is on a sliding scale to be used conveniently according to the gravity and political concerns of the occasion.


Notice how being timid, feckless and cringingly fearful of the "ists/isms" can cause behavior that leaves one open to such accusations.


But when the nation needed him the most, he did do a William Barr Special - a tap dancing, pirouette, aided by a self-serving rationalization as to why he shouldn't be a man and send the pilfered election back to the state legislatures.


But he's certainly not alone among the Repubs.



You've got another one leading the Supreme Court who was just as fearful about riots/blood in the streets.


Adding to the dubious mix other judges who stand at the ready to use "standing" far too often as a political tool




Both parties seem to be in some sort of competition as to which one can produce the most of the type that Cicero warned us about over 2,000 years ago.