Jonathan Chait ghost-writes an apology to Donald Trump from Mitt Romney.
It's kind of amazing how there are almost no prominent Republicans who stand behind any criticisms they made during the election. Donald Trump and Ted Cruz called each other liars and worse…and are now quite prepared to trust each other and work together. And you don't hear any of them say, "I was wrong about that guy" or "I've changed my mind about him" or even "I've decided to give him another chance." It's more like, "Yeah, I may have said that about him but that was during the election so it doesn't count."
I always thought that when politicians of any party told us what they really believed, they were saying what they felt they had to say at that moment to get elected or get some bill passed or something. I can't recall anyone offhand who struck me as totally sincere, especially the guys about whom his supporters said, "He always speaks his mind." If I ever saw anyone I thought actually spoke his mind, it was probably someone who lost in a landslide.
But I used to figure that somewhere in that 95% of malarkey, there was 5% of honest belief. And now I'm thinking 5% was high.