J. Alan Gift: Romney at least says something about Trump’s behavior

(Francisco Kjolseth | Tribune file photo) Sen. Mitt Romney.I am a registered member of the Republican party. I voted for John McCain and Romney when they ran for president and Romney when he ran for senator. I also like to believe I can look at reality without political blinders on.

Romney, recently calling himself a “renegade Republican” appears to be the only Republican lawmaker on Capitol Hill willing to take his Trump blinders off to comment on some of the president’s most outrageous behavior, including the diet of lies the president feeds us, his efforts to undermine those who seek the truth and his maliciously divisive and racist rhetoric.

Republican lawmakers, like the rest of us, can…