Kinzinger - Censured and shunned

Censured by his party and shunned by his church and family members, rational people of any ilk should support Rep. Kinzinger. I thought this interview with Adam Kinzinger was worth pointing to. Strong enough to stand up to Trump and the Trump tools. From the Midwest which been turned head over heels like the South by Trump. He’s seen into the heart of darkness.

Excerpt

What’s your sense of whether Trump was sui generis or a particularly bad symptom of trends that had already been going on in the Republican Party? 

The best analogy I can give: He’s like a gangrenous limb. But then that limb gets cut off, and now you don’t have a leg. He’s a symptom of what probably was about a quarter of the party that was always kind of conspiracy-driven but was generally suppressed by most normal Republicans. But everybody has fear in their heart, and when somebody, especially somebody in authority, speaks to the darkest parts of your heart, your fears, your racism — it gives you permission to let those things overtake you. That’s what happened with a lot of the rest of the party.

On his pastor who is trying to kick him out? When you spend your day thinking about good versus evil and, to you, abortion is the ultimate evil and, in your mind, Donald Trump did good things on abortion*, then nothing else matters. You can convince yourself that God has said to tell your flock that on Jan. 6, he’s going to be reinstated. 

Read Rep. Adam Kinzinger on the Moral Failure of Republicans and the Big Lie - NYT, July 2, 2021

*Worth noting that Trump's position on this is not sincere - like all else about him it is mercenary through and through. See Washington Post's Trump Takes 5 positions in 3 days.