I have decided I will be better able to represent
the people of Arizona and to better serve my country and my conscience
by freeing myself of the political considerations that consume far too
much bandwidth and would cause me to compromise far too many
principles. To that end, I am announcing today that my service in the Senate will
conclude at the end of my term in early January 2019. It is clear, at
this moment, that a traditional conservative who believes in limited
government and free markets, who is devoted to free trade, who is pro-
immigration has a narrower and narrower path to nomination in the
Republican Party--the party that has so long defined itself by its
belief in those things. It is also clear to me, for the moment, that we have given up on the
core principles in favor of a more viscerally satisfying anger and
resentment. To be clear, the anger and resentment that the people feel
at the royal mess we have created are justified, but anger and
resentment are not a governing philosophy.
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