Cassidy Hutchinson, Enough

 Cassidy Hutchinson, Enough

If you live under a rock, you may have missed interviews with Cassidy Hutchinson. She has been on almost every news talk show promoting her book, Enough. She is a Republican in the finest sense of that word, harkening back to a period when we voted for ideas, morality, integrity, and character and not party affiliation. She is not running for office. She is perhaps in self-preservation mode telling her story of an awakening. She is relating her time at the pinnacle of our government when “stuff happened.”

Miss Hutchinson appears to hold an old-fashioned view of what it means to be a Republican. Her father was/is a Trump supporter and would not help his daughter defy the will of our nation’s first would-be authoritarian leader. She wanted to get her own attorney when she saw that the Trump-sponsored one was giving her bad advice and directing her to lie under oath. For those who would not see telling a person who remembers an event to say they don’t remember that event as lying, you may want to check your moral compass and the law. To advise such a statement is to be advising deceit. Her father was OK with that, she was not.

She follows the examples of Republicans Liz Cheney, Adam Kinzinger, Jaime Herrera Beutler, Joe Kent, Heidi St. John, John Katko, Peter Meijer, Dan Newhouse, Loren Culp, Jerrod Sessler, Tom Rice, Barbara Arthur, Ken Richardson, Fred Upton, David Valadao, and even Mike Pence, who have dared to have the audacity to tell the truth about Donald Trump. Most of these people have paid the price for their moral stance.

In Miss Hutchinson’s case, after she testified before the January 6th Committee, she was forced out of her apartment and had to move to Atlanta briefly and has been reclusive for over 15 months. For her courage and tenacity in the face of what must have been daunting decisions, I have the utmost respect for her. For her choice of associations in her career, I will give her the benefit of youthful naivete as an excuse.

There was a time when we could have meaningful political discussions that evaluated options and solutions. These discussions are now filled with avarice and lean toward party loyalty rather than what might be good for our nation.

As a Democrat, I can have respect for anyone who follows their conscience and convictions and is not swayed into promoting lies to achieve some ulterior goal. Such a standard would apply regardless of party affiliation. Democratic Sen. Bob Menendez should resign his seat unless he has a better explanation for the mountain of evidence that points to his corruption. Hundreds of thousands of dollars in cash, gold bars, a Mercedes convertible, and mortgage payments are not incidental, they stink of corruption.

Neither Democrats nor Republicans are inherently evil but when they start adopting evil as a means to an end, they are no longer the respected servants of the people, they are but greedy bastards that deserve that thump in the head from the “fickle finger of fate.” Kudos to Miss Hutchinson for taking the moral path and avoiding the lure of the cult.