Mitt Romney Is the Only Republican in Congress With Any Guts Left

The Utah senator enraged Republicans and showed you can take a stand against a lawless president

In his vote to convict the president, Sen. Mitt Romney described Trump’s actions as “wrong, grievously wrong.” Photo: Caroline Brehman/CQ-Roll Call, Inc via Getty Images

It ended as it was always going to end.

Mitch McConnell always had enough votes to prevent Donald Trump’s richly deserved conviction in the U.S. Senate. The combination of McConnell’s iron hand, the threat of him holding back National Republican Senatorial Committee reelection money, and the state of quivering, impotent terror to which Trump reduces GOP elected officials made reaching two-thirds a distant dream.

Trump’s GOP is a party bereft of heroes.

Almost.

This afternoon America witnessed an act of political courage almost unparalleled in our degraded capital city in the era of Trump. Like the nerdy kid in the 1980s teen movie who finally knocks the bully down, Mitt Romney stood up for decency and history and delivered a blow that has enraged the Trump cult.

No, he didn’t take down Trump, but he showed everyone you can stand up and survive against a lawless president.

Sen. Mitt Romney is not a brawler. He is not an elbows-out political scrapper who goes for the throat and leaves bodies on the floor. Romney, a man who…