Donald Trump’s maniacal actions over the past week have been … distressing. He is the president of the United States of America. With elections coming in just a few weeks, Republicans like Texas Sen. John Cornyn find themselves holding tightly to the sinking rim of the burning garbage bag that is this administration. At literally any point since Jan. 20, 2017, there have been myriad reasons a Republican with even a passing flirtation with integrity could have seriously questioned or even admonished the president and his administration’s actions.
Cornyn has been particularly impotent as a political leader at this time. Even facing the strange threats of a coup against democracy by the Trump administration has brought a flatlined and cowardly response from the Texas senator. Then, on Monday, after a weekend where Trump was airlifted to Walter Reed Medical Center for treatment of COVID-19, which he may have knowingly put people in danger of catching for days, Cornyn continued on his apologetics tour, telling the Houston Chronicle: “I think he let his guard down, and I think in his desire to try to demonstrate that we are somehow coming out of this and that the danger is not still with us — I think he got out over his skis and frankly, I think it’s a lesson to all of us that we need to exercise self discipline.”
Help fund John Cornyn’s retirement from the Senate by supporting his opponent, MJ Hegar.
Cornyn is in the tightest race he’s seen in a long time and he has fully given himself over to the dark side of the force. Knowing that he has virtually nothing under his belt in regards to legislation except a huge tax break for the rich, Cornyn’s been running around lying to the public that he’s been fighting for undocumented youth.
His one attempt at showing rigor was an attack on reports that an ultra-conservative Supreme Court could cost 1 million Texans their subsidized insurance. Huh. So, crickets on the truly terrible handling of our public and economic crisis, a lying and sniveling argument that he secretly fights for undocumented youth while fighting against their rights publicly, and a Twitter dismissal of millions of his constituents’ health insurance. Texas needs a new senator or two.