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Thoughts on GOP Congressman Adam Kinzinger?

@wheatrich @Chippa58 @mjiggy and @MattyLice had a brief conversation about him a couple of weeks ago:

@wheatrich

nyt posted the letter kinzinger got

https://twitter.com/reidepstein/status/1361433150400921600

@wheatrich

yeah lady, you’re angry at him because a bunch of people on TV and radio told you and you’re going to try to remove him from office and you think he’s the one embarrassing the family

he’s a democrat because he voted with democrats once in his entire life, sure lady

@Chippa58

If there is in fact a fight within the Republican Party, then the semi-normal faction is getting the shit kicked out of it by the Trump faction. I know that Evan McMullen has been considering the idea of launching a new party. But that party would just lose. So it seems to me, the best course of action for the Kinzingers and Romneys of the world is to just flip to the Democratic Party. They’d be much more likely to be on the winning team that way.

@mjiggy

These people just fucking love low taxes and Ronnie Reagan too much to switch; they’d rather lose to the crazies than flip to the other side. I don’t know much about Kinzinger but at this point I doubt he has any future as a Repub but I’m sure bipartisan-obsessed Dems would love to vote for him, no clue what his district is like.

@MattyLice

He was on Colbert after the insurrection. He seemed like a completely reasonable and sane republican. No wonder they hate him.

I was impressed with his comments to Marjorie Taylor Greene.

https://twitter.com/RepKinzinger/status/1364756256678936576
https://twitter.com/RepKinzinger/status/1365026089555423234

Not bad not bad taking a dunk on Trump.

https://twitter.com/RepKinzinger/status/1365360064404586496

But then we get stuff like this.

https://twitter.com/RepKinzinger/status/1365000487246860295

And with him voting NO on the Equal Rights Act, I question not whether he is an ally for LGBTQ issues, but whether his acts as an ally are helpful are harmful. Because I mean I get the conservative premise on how someone can vote against the ERA while still considering themselves an ally. I think it’s easy to show them that’s dumb in three quick steps, but that’s different than questioning their intent.

Like, you could say him speaking against Marj is insincere virtue signaling, but it’s a big deal for lots of folks struggling with or against bigotry to see someone say those things from a powerful position in government.