This Independence Day, be Proud of Congresswoman LaMonica McIver

As a man, it is disturbing and unsettling to hear American guys on the floor of the U.S. House of Representatives admonishing their colleagues for opposing a budget bill because the criticisms might offend Donald Trump.

These are elected officials, congresspeople, and Republicans, as it turns out, who one by one, defend the president’s “big, beautiful bill,” with a twist of unbearably unamerican obsequiousness.

“Members are reminded not to engage in personalities toward the president,” said the acting chair of the governing body after an especially substantive criticism of the bill expressed by one House member.

This is a bill, incidentally, that kicks 17 million insured Americans off the healthcare rolls and shifts that burden to others in the form of higher insurance premiums, while…