George Conway tears apart GOP for lack of 'moral courage'

George Conway, the ex-husband of President Donald Trump’s first term senior counselor Kellyanne Conway (now Fitzpatrick), posted on the social media platform X that members of Congress need to show “courage” against the Republican agenda.

“The spirit of liberty requires moral courage among the people who are elected to Congress — who take the oath to serve as members of Congress under the Constitution, to uphold the constitutional laws of the United States,” Conway said in a video posted to X on Wednesday. “But it also requires all of us. It requires us to speak out without fear. It requires us to tell others unpleasant truths that they do not want to hear. It requires us to march in the streets, to vote, to organize, to ensure that the spirit of liberty spreads and lives and finds its way into the Congress of the United States.”

Conway added that in addition to engaging in activism and organizing, people need to display both humility and empathy.

“This rekindling of the spirit of liberty, this restoration of our democracy and our republic, the saving of our republic, requires that humility and that forbearance — because it's hard for people to admit they made a mistake,” Conway said. “It's even harder for people to admit they made a grievous mistake.”

Conway was a lifelong Republican who openly and frequently criticized Trump during the president’s first term, despite his wife being the president’s senior counselor. Now a Democrat and candidate for Congress in New York, the attorney continues to speak out against Trump and his agenda. In February he wrote that “the way things are going in America, it should be clear we don’t have much time. We certainly don’t have three years. We need to help ourselves by pushing for impeachment and removal as hard as we can and carrying it out as soon as humanly possible.”

He continued, “How quickly does the megalomaniac lose strength versus how quickly he destroy[s] everything around him. The one thing you can depend on is that the megalomaniac gets more destructive and dangerous over time before he’s done.”

Also in February, Conway went to social media to quote a New York Times opinion piece by history professor and fascist expert Dr. Ruth Ben-Ghiat.

“As autocrats surround themselves with loyalists who praise them and party functionaries who repeat their lies, leaders can start to believe their own hype,” Conway quoted Ben-Ghiat as writing. “As they cut themselves off from expert advice and objective feedback, they start to promulgate unscrutinized policies that fail. Rather than course correct, such leaders often double down and engage in even riskier behavior — starting wars or escalating involvement in military conflicts that eventually reveal the human and financial tolls of their corruption and incompetence. The result: a disillusioned population that loses faith in the leader and elites who begin to rethink their support.”

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