Senator Lisa Murkowski (R-AK) openly admitted that she and her Republican colleagues were “all afraid” of “retaliation” from President Donald Trump as she criticized what she called “unlawful” executive overreach and sweeping federal cuts.

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    3 days ago

    The Christian nationalists would absolutely crucify them, it’s career suicide and they know it.

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      So what? It’s better for the country.

      I’m thinking they are more fearful of their friends and family being murdered.

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      In a just world, they should feel that capitulating to Trump’s agenda would be actual suicide.

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        Sadly, it might actually be heading in the exact opposite direction. If they don’t capitulate to him, it may soon be more dangerous than just losing their career.

        I hate this timeline

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          The American citizenry is going to live a lot longer than Fuhrer Trump will and we aren’t about to forget what happened here.

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            You have way more confidence in the American electorate’s memory than recent history would suggest to anyone. After all Krasnov was re-elected.

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      Are they so unskilled they couldn’t just go get another job? (I’m not asking you to defend them - just pointing out the absurdity)