'We Pretended That the Emperor Wasn’t Naked'
Republican Senator Jeff Flake takes on President Trump—but stops well short of calling for his removal.
Senator Jeff Flake, an Arizona Republican, has published an excerpt of his forthcoming book, The Conscience of a Conservative, in Politico. The title is an echo of Barry Goldwater’s famous tome. The excerpt argues that congressional Republicans are in denial about President Trump.
He urges them to do something.
“There simply are not that many people who are in a position to do something about an executive branch in chaos,” Flake . “As the first branch of government (Article I), the Congress was designed expressly to assert itself atwithout seeming to realize that that someone is us. And so, that unnerving silence in the face of an erratic executive branch is an abdication, and those in positions of leadership bear particular responsibility.”
