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One Sunny Day Doesn’t Make a Summer
— but surely we can appreciate it all the same.
Frank Bruni is one of my favorite columnists from the New York Times — his opinion always imbedded in color and humor. He discusses the split vision of Liz Cheney because of her absolute failure to go along with “the big lie”.
Villains are quite possible of being heroes and vice-versa. The total picture though depends on the tallies in the credit and debit columns over time. We are often unwilling to give people a break from being so good — or so bad. I recall Bernie Sanders having to explain after agreeing with Donald Trump on the rescue payment issue — “even a broken clock is correct twice a day” was his reply.
Giving an opponent credit for a stance well taken even when we don’t like their hairdo gives us strength and in no way diminishes our position. Actually, it means that we are focusing on the ideas in hand as opposed to people and families we just love or harbor contempt for. Golly, Thomas Friedman enthusiastically praised Jared Kushner and even his boss for the Abraham Accords normalizing Israeli and Arab relations. That was in no way a blanket endorsement of all their actions, but simply credit where credit was due.
This mixed bag of praise and disapproval should apply to Liz Cheney but somehow that makes us uncomfortable. It’s as if we can’t rattle…
