The Republican governor with a tough-guy reputation never mentioned the president by name but added, “Soaring rhetoric feels good for a little while, but if there’s no follow-through, all that’s left is the same problems except bigger because we put them off.”…

“Both parties have within them members who are afraid to step out and afraid to tell the truth because they’ve seen the demagoguery of the past and what happened to people who got in way of that demagoguery,” he said. “It usually was not positive for political future.