"Thoughts on a Saturday Morning"

By Senator Tim Kaine, posted on Kaine's official facebook and other social media today. This is powerful and intelligent and I'm so proud to have voted for him for Vice President.

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Thoughts on a Saturday Morning:

So many of you have reached out—while the Capitol attack was going on and in the days since—to ask how I am and express your deep concern over what you saw happening. Rather than respond briefly to each, I thought I would write up my thoughts to share with you all.

January 6th re-proved a very old lesson about human nature: character is destiny.   America trusted its most important post to a moral defective. Some thought he would grow into the job, or moderate his behavior under the weight of responsibility. That is just not how life works. In all but a very few cases, an adult will behave as she or he has behaved throughout life. In this sense, the set of outrages of the last few years—culminating in a 2020 marked by mismanaging a pandemic thus occasioning unnecessary death and then the violence and racism at the Capitol—is a completely logical ending to a very sad chapter in American life.

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