Representative Chip Roy is one of the most conservative and least accommodating Members of Congress.
Generally speaking, if there is a controversy among Republicans where some want to give in to Democrats and others want to stick to conservative principles, Roy is on the good guys’ side. You might criticize him for being inflexibly conservative, but until today I never heard a single person call him a RINO.
That’s because the “Republican” in RINO used to mean “principled conservative.” Now, apparently, it means a willingness to lick Donald Trump’s boots.
I keep reminding myself that Trump was a generally good, sometimes excellent president. From 2017 to 2019, he proved to have startlingly good judgment regarding public policies, especially foreign affairs. I defended him at great personal cost (losing friends and alienating family members), even though Trump often got…
