It's the Brian Laird Show on WNYc, good morning everyone.

It's the Brian Larrow Show on WNYC. Good morning again everyone. Now Atlantic magazine journalist

McKay Coppins who has a new biography of Mitt Romney. It's called Romney, a reckoning.

Some of you may know that Coppins became a nationally known journalist when

Romney was the Republican presidential nominee in 2012.

Coppins was with Buzzfeed at the time and wrote about covering Romney who was a Mormon as a Mormon

himself with that extra understanding a journalist might have from personal experience of a

candidate with a minority religion.

In 2012, you might have heard Mitt Romney say things like this.

Barack Obama and I have fundamentally different visions of America.

He spent the last three or four years laying the foundation for a new government-centered society. I will spend the next four years rebuilding the

foundation of our opportunity society, led by free people and their free enterprises.

Mitt Romney in 2012.

But by 2020, after Donald Trump was impeached for inciting insurrection and Romney was a

a rare exception in his party in the Senate for voting to remove Trump from

office over that, he sounded like this.

Corrupting an election to keep oneself in office is perhaps the most abusive and destructive

violation of one's oath of office that I can imagine.

It's also easy to forget that Mitt Romney was a Republican governor of a Democratic

State, Massachusetts, launched a health care system in the state that became a model for Obamacare,

had been called Romney Care, which Republicans of course opposed when it went

national, but also had his own hard line edge.

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