Less than 24 hours after Matt Gaetz announced he was giving up his bid to become the next attorney general, the Northwest Florida Republican made clear that he will not return to Congress in the next session beginning in January.
Less than 24 hours after Matt Gaetz announced he was giving up his bid to become the next attorney general, the Northwest Florida Republican made clear that he will not return to Congress in the next session beginning in January.
I’m okay with it when it’s for legitimate reasons, and I think you have some legitimate ones. He did some real good on infrastructure and renewables, but he still fucked up in a lot of other ways. What’s annoying is when people say he was either infallible or the very embodiment of evil.
We should accept the good while condemning the bad, because most people are more complex and nuanced than the caricatures presented by the internet.
But to your last point, I agree that we will continue to lose to the Donald Trumps of the world if we don’t have someone willing to publicly promise to fight and hold the entire rotten establishment accountable.