George Conway has done it again. In this op-ed in the Washington Post, he holds a mirror up to the Republican Senate and shows them the utter absurdity of their blind allegiance to Trump. In "I believe the President, and in the President" he recites a litany of all the pretzels into which Republicans must contort themselves in order to acquit, and they are doozies.
I would love to see Lindsay Graham repeating, "I believe the president is a good Christian, because TV pastors say so, and that it’s okay he doesn’t ask for God’s forgiveness, because he doesn’t need to, since he’s the Chosen One. I believe the president knows the Bible, and that two Corinthians are better than one."
Or Joni Ernst saying, "I believe it would be okay for the president to say he grabs women by their p-----s, because he is a star, and stars are allowed to do that. But I believe he didn’t say that, even though he apologized for it, because I believe the “Access Hollywood” tape was doctored, because he said it was."
And I really want to see Mitch McConnell say, "I believe the president is selfless, and always puts the nation’s interests first. I believe he isn’t a narcissist, but he’d be entitled to be one if he were one. I believe the president would never exercise his presidential powers to advance his personal interests, but if he did, that would be okay, because whatever is in his personal interests is necessarily in the nation’s interests as well."
Unfortunately, I believe every single one of them would have no problem citing Conway's oath of allegiance to Emperor Trump with a straight face.