GOP Sen. Jeff Flake: Donald Trump is like the biblical flood, and we need to build an ark

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Jeff Flake, a Republican senator from Arizona, has published a searing piece in Politico accusing his party of being in “denial” about Trump. “We created him, and now we're rationalizing him,” he writes. “When will it stop?”

In the piece, Flake traces his own journey of denial, writing about the “defense mechanisms” he deployed to protect himself from facing up to Trump’s behavior:

I even found myself saying things like, “If I took the time to respond to every presiden­tial tweet, there would be little time for anything else.” Given the volume and velocity of tweets from both the Trump campaign and then the White House, this was certainly true. But it was also a monumental dodge. It would be like Noah saying, “If I spent all my time obsessing about the coming flood, there would be little time for anything else.” At a certain point, if one is being honest, the flood becomes the thing that is most worthy of attention. At a certain point, it might be time to build an ark.

Oof. And yet this is where Flake’s op-ed deserves some scrutiny: What kind of ark does he propose to build? What sort of behavior will he no longer tolerate? The prescriptive portion of Flake’s analysis is a bit thin:

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/gop-sen-jeff-flake-donald-trump-is-like-the-biblical-flood-and-we-need-to-build-an-ark/ar-AApcV6e?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=edgsp

[pangaia]

1. Do NOT turn your back on this dude.. Do not.

[Takket]

2. 2018 is coming and his seat is getting warm

[DefenseLawyer]

3. Of course he votes with Trump 100% of the time.

That act is so played. So played.

[AlexSFCA]

4. he wants others to do something

while he just talks and votes with trump. You can't have it both ways. Besides, it's too late to upstage mccain. Votes matter, words don't anymore.