The Conscience of a Conservative?
Jeff Flake, the Republican junior US Senator from Arizona, recently issued a loud condemnation of US President Donald Trump's conduct in office – and then announced that he would not seek reelection next year. But while Flake was right to speak out against threats to American democracy, citizens – and especially senators – should never run away from them.
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CAMBRIDGE – In a recent speech that received much attention in the United States and abroad, US Senator Jeff Flake, a Republican from Arizona, announced that he would not seek reelection. To agree with the reasoning Flake offered in defense of his decision, one must believe that a US senator’s highest duty is to speak truth to power, repudiate the president for “reckless, outrageous, and undignified behavior” that is “undermining our democracy,” and then quit.