Flake's a Trumpist
by tristero
Like fellow Republican Ted Bundy, who could and did charm and deceive many gullible people before slaughtering them, Jeff Flake is affable, good looking and personable. Don't be fooled.
Flake has voted the Trump agenda over 91% of the time. He will now position himself as the moderate alternative to the insane Trump. And without for a moment diminishing the existential threat Trump is, a President Flake would be more deceitful, more cunning, and likely get more terrible things done.
We live in dreadful times when someone with a political agenda as extreme as Flake is looked to as some kind of hero.
Update by digby:
I don't see it quite this way, FWIW. I think Charlie Pierce makes the nuanced case here.