Thomas’, Meadows’ texts are ‘appalling’
Now that it has been revealed that the White House chief of staff and the wife of a Supreme Court justice were busily exchanging text messages in November 2020 about how they might assist efforts to overturn the presidential election results, it is important to examine those texts so that we might better understand the thought processes behind them.
“Help This Great President stand firm, Mark!!!” and “Evil always looks like the victor until the King of Kings triumphs” are two quotes from the texts. They read as if they were spoken at a rally by an especially ignorant political candidate (naming no names, of course) or by an undereducated preacher or other huckster. That they were written by two people close to holders of the highest offices in the United States government is appalling.
The American people have a right to expect that senior political officeholders and their close subordinates and family members should be thoughtful people, capable of expressing themselves maturely and professionally.
Communications between a senior White House official and the spouse of a Supreme Court Justice ought not to be as embarrassingly simple-minded as we see displayed in the Thomas/Meadows emails.