Remember Arizona House Speaker Rusty Bowers (R), who testified on television to the shameful activities of Trump supporters when he refused to engage in illegal actions at Trump’s behest, but then stated that, yes, he’d vote for Trump again?
Not anymore.
Arizona state House Speaker Rusty Bowers (R) on Sunday said he’ll never vote for former President Trump again, a reversal of earlier claims that he’d back Trump in a match-up against President Biden.
“I’ll never vote for him, but I won’t have to. Because I think America’s tired and there’s some absolutely forceful, qualified, morally defensible and upright people, and that’s what I want. That’s what I want in my party and that’s what I want to see,” Bowers told moderator Jonathan Karl during an interview on ABC’s “This Week.” [The Hill]
I couldn’t help but note this remark:
“It is a tenet of my faith that the Constitution is divinely inspired, that this is my most basic foundational belief,” Bowers, a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints, told the committee. “And so for me to do that because somebody just asked me to, is foreign to my very being; I will not do it.” [NBC News]
It’s one of those remarks that sounds sophisticated and authentic and all that rot, at least on first thought. But on second thought?
I think I’m just a piece on a cosmic Monopoly game.
I wonder why he can’t give credit to the humans who came up with the Constitution, with the series of compromises, good and bad, of checks and balances, of a document that reflects hope, humility, and awareness of the inevitability of error? What keeps him from acknowledging it’s a best attempt by humans, rather than some oddball Divinity who appears to think we’re all, well, to be honest, thumb puppets?
