Whenever liberals start describing a Republican as brave or principled, you can be sure it’s because he or she is stabbing the party in the back.

Meet Democrats’ latest hero Roger Alford. He was deputy assistant attorney general for antitrust until AG Pam Bondi recently fired him for insubordination.

Alford decided he knew better than the Trump administration’s DOJ and national security team and attempted to block a merger that would strengthen America against China.

Now, he is banging pots and pans, metaphorically auditioning to be MSNBC’s new favorite “Republican.”

The merger in question was between two telecom companies, HPE and Juniper, which Trump intelligence officials urged the DOJ to clear for national security reasons — specifically, to protect the Republic from the Chinese Communist Party.

Huawei, a Chinese firm that receives substantial subsidies from that country’s communist government, and which the FBI has said can disrupt U.S. military communications, currently controls around 30% of the global telecom equipment market. Huawei products are banned in the U.S., but Huawei’s dominance abroad leaves many of our allies vulnerable to Chinese cyberespionage. Trump intelligence officials told the DOJ that they strongly believe an HPE-Juniper deal would help mitigate that exposure by creating a new, larger company that can compete with Huawei globally.

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