General Discussion

After all, what choice words would we have had for any turncoat Democrat if it had gone the other way? Traitor? Spineless, gutless opportunist? What we would call “seeing the light,” they would call a sell-out. A rat deserting a ship that was nowhere near sinking? I’m not talking about some one-off vote in the Senate that wasn’t going to change anything. I’m talking about full and irrevocable party switching. “I didn’t leave the party—they left me.”

We are up against a very hardened front that has harsh words for people who don’t agree with them. Sometimes more that just words. I mean rocks (or bullets) through windows, etc. The Republicans have a pretty big tent, too, and like their Stalinist role models, they often have no inhibition against causing bodily harm to those who express a desire to leave. I don’t see anyone of consequence leaving that camp—not without an airtight security detail, anyway.