Sasse speaks truth to power
Sen. Ben Sasse (R-Neb.) took to the Senate floor yesterday to speak on the increasingly bleak human rights situation in Russia. It was among the most thoughtful and eloquent floor speeches in recent memory, confirming his role as a leading figure in the thinking-man’s GOP.
“Russia’s parliament, the Federal Assembly, has just approved so-called anti-terrorism legislation that actually criminalizes free speech and that attacks religious liberty,” he explained. “If President Putin signs this into law in the coming weeks, it will be illegal for Christians to share their faith outside of a church building, as if faith is constrained by the four walls of a structure and belief to a single day of the week.”
One cannot help but see the contrast with Donald Trump, who venerates Vladimir Putin for all the wrong reasons. “We are witnessing a rising authoritarianism in a declining state. Moscow repeatedly and routinely tramples the rights of the press, tramples on free speech, tramples on assembly, on dissent and national sovereignty,” Sasse said. “Ask the families of murdered journalists. Ask the student groups facing intimidation. Ask the political dissidents who fear imprisonment. Ask the Ukrainian people who fear being fully overrun.” Trump, of course, is either unaware or indifferent to such inconvenient truths about his role model and fellow bully. Sasse, by contrast, sees Putin for exactly who he is: “Because Putin and his cronies think that they can make Russia great again by hoarding wealth, by abusing power, and by crushing any and all opposition. They strike the pose of a strongman but this is not real strength.” It’s not coincidental that he uses the phrase “great again.”
https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2016/06/30/sasse-speaks-truth-to-power/Posting to show just how unaware people are of Trumps fairy tale foreign policy. If you think Trump is for religious freedom look at who he admires and who admires him.
