Echoing comments made by Stefanik’s conservative Harvard college mentor who deplored her decision to embrace “power without principle,”McKibben piled on by accusing her of adopting the “politics of ugliness” so that she could hasten her rise to the number three Republican in the House.
Writing that he lived in the district she represents for a number of years, he lamented, “…this Trumpiness is helping Stefanik raise a lot of cash—and turning her into a national figure, a fact that’s too bad for America, and particularly for the district she represents.”
Pointing out her habit of tweeting out unfounded accusations about the Democrats and President Joe Biden, the author wrote, “Republican Party politics in the twenty-first century have devolved into an attack on the national limbic system, using fear as the chief tool,” after suggesting she “engages in other far-right role play, too.”
“If, however, the Stefaniks of the G.O.P. let ambition override both moral and practical sense, we’ll end up in a nation where every transition becomes a precipice, every change an attack, and every new accent an imposition, rather than something that can make us—in all senses of the word—a little richer,” he concluded.
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