Utah Republican Sen. Mitt Romney will not run for reelection in 2024. The former presidential candidate and Massachusetts governor announced his intentions in a video statement Wednesday, creating a wide-open contest in a state that heavily favors Republicans and is expected to attract a crowded fie
  • DarkGamer@kbin.social
    462·
    1 year ago

    Romney in 2020 became the first senator in U.S. history to vote to convict a president from their own party in an impeachment trial. Romney was the only Republican to vote against Trump in his first impeachment and one of seven to vote to convict him in the second. …
    Romney was booed by a gathering of the Utah Republican Party’s most active members months after his vote at the second impeachment trial, and a measure to censure him narrowly failed. Members of the party even flung the term “Mitt Romney Republican” at their opponents on the campaign trail in 2022’s midterm elections.
    Still, Romney has been seen as broadly popular in Utah, which has long harbored a band of the party that’s favored civil conservatism and resisted Trump’s brash and norm-busting style of politics.

    Seems like he’s in the wrong party. There’s no room for actual conservatives or upholding the law against their own in the modern pro-fascism, post-truth, anti-democracy, GOP.

    • deconstruct@lemm.ee
      172·
      1 year ago

      He wouldn’t have made it through a primary. Given it’s Utah he’ll be replaced by someone much worse.

      • Wrench@lemmy.world
        1·
        1 year ago

        Why do you think that? He’s staunchly Mormon, and been a political figure head for their interests. I can’t see them turning their back on him.

    • TropicalDingdong@lemmy.world
      102·
      1 year ago

      Seems like he’s in the wrong party. There’s no room for actual conservatives or upholding the law against their own in the modern pro-fascism, post-truth, anti-democracy, GOP.

      Well he sure af isn’t welcome to the Democratic party.

      • DarkGamer@kbin.social
        33·
        1 year ago

        Well he sure af isn’t welcome to the Democratic party.

        Why not? Manchin and Sinema are. Mitt invented Obamacare back when it was Massachusetts’ Romneycare. There’s plenty of right-leaning, (or at very least, centrist,) Democrats.

        Not sure his constituency would approve though.

            • Neve8028@lemm.ee
              1·
              1 year ago

              All they do is stall the system and prevent things that will genuinely help the working class. Want to win against the GOP? Pass meaningful legislation that improves people’s lives. The reason we’re in this mess is because the democratic party is too timid to actually take a solid stance and do what’s necessary against the problems in this country. Having a big tent only makes it more difficult to make meaningful changes. DNC infighting just helps the GOP.

              • DarkGamer@kbin.social
                1·
                1 year ago

                If we want to move the Overton window leftward and do away with this issue, we need ranked choice voting. As long as we we are first-past-the-post, doing whatever is nessicary to defeat the greater evil is the right move.

                Meaningful legislation doesn’t matter to voters who are willfully ignorant and hateful, who choose to believe outright lies over credible evidence and regularly vote against their own interests. Good governance by the opposition will never be acknowledged by that segment.