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It is not uncommon, when meeting someone new, and knowing they are friends of someone else we know (say ‘x’) to say: “Anyone who’s a friend of ‘x’ is a friend of mine.”
You’ve likely heard this.
You may have said it yourself.
All the while, knowing deep down, this isn’t necessarily true. Sometimes friends of friends don’t become friends.
They might not become enemies, but they don’t become friends.
We may find eventual affinity with them.
Or not.
But we say what we do because it’s the polite thing to say.
And it has a ring of collegiality to it, which may turn out to be true in the long run.
We give the other person the benefit of the doubt.
And there’s nothing wrong with that.
But why mention it at all?
What’s the relevance?
Representative Liz Cheney just lost the Republican WY race for the House. Why? Because Cheney voted to impeach the former POTUS and has been active in the committee investigating the events of January 6, and has taken a position that the former POTUS knew of events that would follow his inflammatory speech in which he exhorted supporters to descend on…
