McMorris Rodgers faces reckoning

After enabling President Donald Trump for many years, is our recently retired US Representative Cathy McMorris Rodgers feeling guilty?

She should be, but the proposals she lists in her new initiative (Spokesman-Review, June 4) certainly aren’t adequate to absolve that guilt.

Former Wyoming US Representative and Republican House leader Liz Cheney, in her book “Oath and Honor: A Memoir and a Warning”, describes long-time Trump-idolater and current Republican House Speaker Mike Johnson’s actions following the Trump-orchestrated January 6, 2021 insurrection as reprehensible: Cheney identifies Johnson as one of the politicians most responsible for resurrecting Trump’s political fortunes by Johnson’s lies and double-dealing.

Yet despite a front row seat observing Johnson’s two-faced manipulations, McMorris Rodgers further cemented her loyalty to Trump by originally nominating Johnson for House Speaker.

McMorris Rodgers can still repent and find redemption, but she’ll need a radical rebirth to find the courage to stand up to Trump and help save our democracy!