Just read an interview on CCN with Rep. Anthony Gonzalez, R-OH. He’s one of the ten GQPs to vote for impeachment and pretty much drops the boom on Trump, saying he led the party into a ditch and should never be allowed to hold office again.

Okay, so far, so good. Let’s read a little further.

Gonzalez beat a Trump-backed candidate to get re-elected. All right, not great that a Republican is re-elected, but the alternative was way worse. Let’s soldier on!

Ahh, now we find why Rep. Gonzalez is speaking his mind: he’s heading for the exits after this term. Like 99% of all Republicans, they only do the right thing as they’re jumping ship.

And now we get to the crux of the matter:

“If he’s the nominee again in ‘24, I will do everything I personally can to make sure he doesn’t win. Now I’m not voting for Democrats, but whether that’s finding a viable third party or whether that’s trying to defeat him in primaries, whatever it is, that’s going to be where I’ll spend my time,” he said. “January 6 was the line that can’t be crossed.”

All of the other bluster about doing everything to defeat a potential 2nd Trump run is simply bluster if you’re taking voting Democratic off the table. I appreciate that the guy did right thing via impeachment, but fuck him on the “Never elect a Democrat” both-sides bullshit.

Gonzalez is essentially saying that any Democrat is as bad as Trump. Which means if someone like Christie or Haley run, who are all the evil policies with none of the outward crazy, he’ll do that in a heart beat.

Fuck the people both running the party and those who still support it.