Person after person getting off the Trump Train at the very last local stop now that there’s nothing to be gained from it also publicly said something like this would happen before they got on it. It seems banal to point out, but it’s poisoned good faith political debate.

This was the crux of Romney and McConnell and others’ speeches yesterday: Trump presents his own challenges to democracy, but the fact nobody believes even some of his most prominent elected supporters are sincere in their support also is toxic. It makes debate impossible.

Hypocrisy is a normal feature of politics. Making alliances with rivals is too. But there’s not much precedent for warning a rival is an immediate danger to democracy, decency, and truth itself THEN getting on board only to complain they did the thing you said they were doing.

Anyway, congrats on your brave stand, Mick Mulvaney. https://www.politico.com/story/2018/12/15/mulvaney-trump-terrible-human-being-1066657