If you take Flake's tweet and trim a few words, you end up with what countless Republicans both on and off this forum have been doing all night:
At what point do people stop doing the desperate mental gymnastics trying to justify Trump's actions? I know partisanship has a powerful effect on the mind, but jfc. Watching this back and forth with some people strongly reminds me of this guy:
This is what living under a two-party system does to you.
And don't you DARE think about voting third-party instead of voting in lockstep with your "team", you're throwing your vote away.
The sooner we do electoral reform, the better. It should have been done after Bush vs. Gore.