This is the man who sucked up to Trump a scant 2 years ago in an effort to be his Secretary of State.

Now he's just trying to reboot himself as the civil and dignified alternative to Trump's crassness. Mr "corporations are people too" and Mr 47% won't be any better for the county, although one can kinda-sorta argue that he wouldn't be as immediately and overtly BAD. The problem and the irony is it's guys like Romney who actually made Trump possible.

If possible, Romney is even a worse human being than rump.

Romney is positioning himself with his NYT editorial this morning as the civil, dignified alternative to Trump. He assumes people will forget his "47%" remark, and his "corporations are people, too" remark, and will somehow transmute his tone-deaf, ham-fisted conservatism into dignity and rectitude. Oh, and maybe they'll forget that he seriously sought to be Trump's Secretary of State at one point.

I see him as an example of how low Trump has set the bar. However, I don't see us as a society suddenly going so far as to see Romney as even "woke Romney", much less some sort of positive alternative to Trumpism. Indeed, it is so-called "principled conservatism" that gave us Trumpism. American conservatism, personified by the GOP, has for at least 3 generations been an inherently proto-fascist enterprise with a narrow base of plutocrats. Trump has merely ripped the mask off of it, by demonstrating how pliable alleged conservative "principles" can be in the service of holding onto power. The fact that the GOP has utterly failed to stand up to Trump and in fact has supported him, tells us all we need to know in that regard.

I've always had respect for Romney as a person although I was opposed to much of his politics. I didn't know the details of Bain Capital, though.