Jeff flakes surprise announcement that he would not seek reelection came with a stinging rebuke of donald trump and stark warning to his colleagues, if you dont speak out, youre complicit and flake was not done sounding the alarm. Appeared on five morning shows on five different networks. Sf i think if we are waiting for the pivot, we ought to stop waiting. Its not coming. This is speech reckless and undignified. Until we do, we are complicit in normalizing that type of behavior. At some point the spell will be off and people will realize where are we, what are we doing . Weve got to accomplish something here. He published an oped in the Washington Post this morning. Theres a sickness in our system and it is contagious, said flake. How many more disgraceful public feuds with gold star families can we witness in silence before we ourselves are disgraced. How many more times will we see moral a. Mbiguity in the face of shocking bigotry and shake it off and hos till foreign power before w