I'l concede that Sen. Mitt Romney largely redeemed himself by supporting Trump's two impeachments and vigorously opposing the blackhearted villain's attempt at overturning the 2020 presidential election.
Opposing Donald Trump is perhaps the lowest political bar ever, but it's more than most GOP pols have done. And Romney has taken note. As he told The Washington Post's Dan Balz yesterday, "It’s pretty clear that the party is inclined to a populist demagogue message."
So credit to Mitt for his last six years. But if one wishes to write a hagiography of the Utah senator, one would be advised to stop at six. Because his 2012 campaign against President Obama was a scurrilous descent into Trumpian demagoguery itself.
Just about every day for more than a year I chronicled the ghastly, utterly untrue "messages" spewed by Mitt on the campaign trail. I'll not take time to review all of his garbage — it's here, in the archives, if you're interested — but garbage it was, every awful day.
Romney lied about Obama's record, he lied about ... no, as noted, I won't bother. There's too much of it to rehash, just too many lies. There was no reality, no truth left unsullied by Mitt's lying lips.
I recall writing that as a political historian I was shocked at the foul, filthy heights of Romney's daily demagoguery — it was shameless, profuse, and unequaled in America's past. You may recall that he even sought Donald Trump's endorsement in 2012, one year after Trump had begun his racist, slanderous Obama-birth-certificate gibberish.
I have never heard Romney apologize for his craven presidential campaign. And I'm sure I never will. By 2012, Trumpian demagoguery was already an essential part of Republican politics. He would not think to apologize, since he was only doing what Republicans by then had been doing for 40 years.