former Republican takes a pause, and rethinks ?
For Republicans like Glenn Centolanza, the attack on the Capitol was a breaking point.
'Centolanza, 63, owns a limo business in Bensalem, Pa.
A couple of weeks ago, a woman called looking for a ride to Washington on Jan. 6.
“She said, ‘Are you for Trump or against us?'” Centolanza recalls.
Centolanza voted twice for Trump but had since grown disillusioned by his lies.
“I’m a Republican with common sense and a heart,” he says. “I don’t believe the Kool-Aid
with Trump, but I thought he was 80% right until the last two months.”
Since he was driving clients to D.C. anyway, he figured he’d go and see Trump speak.
At first, it seemed like a rally full of peaceful protesters who were just as mad as he was.
“My business is upside down, the world is upside down, I’m not happy about anything,”
Centolanza says. When Trump urged the crowd to march to the Capitol, Centolanza joined
them. Along the way, he saw two rough-looking guys screaming about “taking our country
back.” At the steps of the Capitol, the two men started to push at the police barricade
confronting the officers guarding the building. One of them turned to face the people behind
them, Centolanza recalls, “and said, ‘If you’re not willing to die here today or go to jail,
you have to leave.'”
That was enough for Centolanza. “I turned and started to walk backward,” he recalls.
https://time.com/magazine/
For Republicans like Glenn Centolanza, the attack on the Capitol was a breaking point.
'Centolanza, 63, owns a limo business in Bensalem, Pa.
A couple of weeks ago, a woman called looking for a ride to Washington on Jan. 6.
“She said, ‘Are you for Trump or against us?'” Centolanza recalls.
Centolanza voted twice for Trump but had since grown disillusioned by his lies.
“I’m a Republican with common sense and a heart,” he says. “I don’t believe the Kool-Aid
with Trump, but I thought he was 80% right until the last two months.”
Since he was driving clients to D.C. anyway, he figured he’d go and see Trump speak.
At first, it seemed like a rally full of peaceful protesters who were just as mad as he was.
“My business is upside down, the world is upside down, I’m not happy about anything,”
Centolanza says. When Trump urged the crowd to march to the Capitol, Centolanza joined
them. Along the way, he saw two rough-looking guys screaming about “taking our country
back.” At the steps of the Capitol, the two men started to push at the police barricade
confronting the officers guarding the building. One of them turned to face the people behind
them, Centolanza recalls, “and said, ‘If you’re not willing to die here today or go to jail,
you have to leave.'”
That was enough for Centolanza. “I turned and started to walk backward,” he recalls.
https://time.com/magazine/
