Modern non-fundamentalist Mormons are sincerely commited to morals, family, and community. They know that Trump doesn’t give a shit about any of that. And they correctly consider most evangelicals phonies.

Yeah dude it’s cause the average Mormon actually believes and practices what they preach, unlike most American “Christians” who fall somewhere between mostly bullshit and all bullshit

who supposedly share many of the same values.

I don’t see why this article has to throw shade at Romney. Did I vote for him for president? No. But he did a very hard thing and deserves to be commended for it. To people saying it wasn’t a risk, wake up. People that stand up to Trump get death threats and harassment. He KNEW his vote wouldn’t change a goddamn…

Right, but Utah is turning on him...  Mike Lee is much more popular.   I always have said the only 2 'people ' who could win against Romney in the hearts of Utah is jesus christ,  or the antichrist.   If you go in for all of 'end of days' today seemed like a good time to start building a bunker, based on Utah's…

I agree with most of your comment, but not with the idea that they voted for Romney as a rebuke to Trump. Romney is a favorite son of the Mormon community and a past presidential nominee. He likely would have elected there no matter who was in office.

My soul is leaving my body to escape the second hand embarrassment.

Utah’s arguably the most conservative state in America but it’s also state won by Trump with the lowest percentage of the vote.

Utah has one of the lowest pro-Trump approval ratings yet seems entirely a “donkey with a red rosette” state in terms of voting patterns (last Dem they voted for was Johnson) and they voted in Romney long after he was vocally not entirely pro-Trump.

Yes yes thank you. I really don’t understand the point of articles like this. We know Mitt Romney is a conservative Republican who literally is everything the opposite of a socially progressive liberal. Of course he votes and voted for garbage legislation and has garbage ideas (we know! he ran for president already!).

I especially love that he’s got six more years in office hahahaha so those constituents are livid that they’ve gotta put up with him for that long. I love it.

someone had their last day at Axios

The vote today was legitimately the best plausible outcome we could have hoped for going in. Romney’s clearly looked at the Republican caucus, then looked at his own approval numbers in Utah, then looked back at the president and the caucus and said, “You know what, I don’t need any of you. Watch this. And then try to…

Meh. When a politician makes a right decision, that should be encouraged. Even if that person isn’t the best person on the planet. A) It couldn’t hurt, and B) telling them to fuck off probably is counterproductive ...

I’m not inclined to praise Romney, but I’d rather focus on the craven idiocy of people like Susan Collins, who graced us with the laughable horseshit that she felt comfortable voting to acquit Trump because she felt he had learned his lesson, as if he hadn’t spent the entire preceding 4+ months claiming the call was…

I think there are more pictures of him with Lev Parnas than with his son. 

That’s what I need, some money to launder! Also some laundry money.

Well one is a super-successful engineer CEO and the other is a Slovenian escort.

was it a lou EV-ton?

See, I saw that error but held my tongue. It was hard, but I though to myself “He means well and most people won’t care that the incorrect word was used; it gets the point across” And so I didn’t post anything.