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 Everything Mitt Romney’s doing right now—everything he’s done all along—is the bare minimum to salve his conscious and shape his legacy. 

Just enough words and actions to guarantee history—if it’s allowed to be written honestly—remembers him as principled if, ultimately, ineffective against a cult to which he also, incidentally, kowtowed by not doing anything close to everything he could.

https://media.mstdn.social/media_attachments/files/111/081/231/001/311/938/original/dfef34531fa99420.jpg 
 @a763f0a6 that one photo is his entire obituary. couldn’t happen to a nicer quisling. @8e66f3ca