Like Laura Clawson and many others, I'm having a hard time understanding why the institutional Republican party has chosen to continue down the path of slavish loyalty to a demented, delusional, stupid old man, loyalty which has cost them control of the legislature and executive, and the support of many wealthy donors. Along with toadying to the cult leader himself, they have embraced all of the lunacy and violence that he inspires, including giving plum committee assignments to a woman who believes, among other insanity, that the California wild fires were started by orbital lasers controlled by the Rothschilds. Maeve Reston at CNN discusses this at greater length.
If I thought my advice was any good, I wouldn't want Mitch McConell and Kevin McCarthy to take it. However, I know they aren't reading. Dear Leaders lawyers all walked the job because he wanted to mount a delusional defense. He has now hired Jeffrey Epstein's lawyer. (Can this really be happening?) It doesn't really matter because 17 Republican senators wouldn't vote to convict if his defense were to enter the senate chamber naked and back in as a Parkerhouse roll. However, there will be a trial in the Democratically controlled senate, presented by Democratic representatives -- a trial for which they have now had three weeks to prepare. It will lay out a whole lot of very ugly facts.
If the Republican congressional leadership were to collectively, forthrightly say that Joseph R. Biden won the presidential election legitimately, freely and fairly; that they appreciate the service Dear Leader did in getting massive tax cuts for the wealthy and conservative judges on the courts, but he has lost touch with reality and engaged in unacceptable conduct; and that the party needs to repudiate false conspiracy theories and instead spend its energy working for conservative policies, I will bet you that within a couple of weeks the so-called "base" would forget all about their obsession with the former Residents personality and be ready and willing to embrace new champions. But they seem to lack imagination.
Update: A whole slew of officials from the W administration are dumping the party.
“The Republican Party as I knew it no longer exists. I’d call it the cult of Trump,” said Jimmy Gurulé, who was Undersecretary of the Treasury for Terrorism and Financial Intelligence in the Bush administration.
Well yeah. But why?
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I'm wondering where those who say they are dissatisfied with the Republican party will go. Do you think they will enthusiastically embrace the Democratic party?
Or is it more likely they will grouse and grumble and return to the GOP as Trump leaves and others take over?
Don't know what Cervantes thinks; I think there will be many transplants from Republican to Democrat--as the reverse happened, during Reagan--because clearly, for the past four years, the White House had become the Shite House. People need a return to reality-based norms, if just for to calm down our overstimulated nervous systems. A constant shit show benefits no one, not even the malignant clown trying to stay out of prison. He, of all, NEEDS consequences. He's been screaming for them his whole life, the kid with the bowl of mashed potatoes dumped on his head. He's crying "SPANK ME" from a mountaintop.
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