Elise Stefanik’s Conversion To the Dark Side Is Epic Miscast Flop

Maybe we should start taking bets on just how long this is going to last. The worst kept secret in politics the past six months or so has been that Elise Stefanik intends to campaign to be Donald Trump’s second in command on the 2024 ticket. She’s made that evident for some time. In fact, when asked about it in summer of 2022, she said she “wouldn’t rule it out.” Stefanik is always the first to defend Trump and always the first to jump on whatever madcap, toxic bandwagon that Jim Jordan and James Comer have managed to get rolling down the road on any given day.

Today, however, was not like every other day. Today Stefanik actually tried out this new pair of shoes that she’s been dying to walk in for some time now. She got on a Sunday show and used the word “hostages” when describing some of the convicted lawbreakers from the January 6 insurrection. This was a sad moment. Stefanik was considered a bright and shining light in the Republican party when she first came on the scene. She was thought of as a generational champion, someone to watch. And what does she do? Why, throw her lot in with the worst president and worst presidential candidate in the history of this republic — and a contender for that title in any other republic or country. The last time somebody with so much promise tossed it all away to follow the bad guy was when Lucifer threw in his lot with Satan — and God threw him and a third of the angels out of Heaven.

Stefanik is suffering from the same malady as Mike Pence. Cowardice, you ask? Well, that too. But what I had in mind was more like snow blindness. She’s so surrounded by MAGA madness that she’s seeing it as normal. It’s not and she’s not the usual MAGA spokeswoman. She’s not as stupid or as base as Lauren Boebert or Marjorie Taylor Greene. Yet she’s actually up there auditioning for a piece of their turf. She wants to be the landlady of MAGA, and then the Queen.

Evidently she sees herself (and I’m speculating but this is hardly a wild proposition) as doing for MAGA what Mike Pence could not, which is to become successor to the Trump/MAGA throne. There is no successor to the MAGA throne. MAGA is a cult. When the cult leader is gone, MAGA will be gone. Where they will go, what they will do, we know not. We only know that they rally around their charismatic leader, which is Donald Trump. He is their master and none other. Stefanik doesn’t stand a chance. Plus, this is interesting, speaking of Stefanik and Pence.

But it wasn’t. It was however the statement of one of the few remaining in the GOP who isn’t in the swamp w/Trump & cult or a serial panderer whose position on issues changes w/each new venue or a repeated need to reimagine prior statements.
And not a wholly unlikeable blowhard.

— Michael Friedman (@mfriedman803) January 7, 2024

Yes, it should have been Pence’s statement, rather than silence. In fact, it should be the statement of ANY Republican who is serious about rebuilding the party in a post-Trump world. The tragedy here is that Stefanik has no interest in rebuilding the party. She’s just fine with it in its warped, MAGA incarnation. She seeks to perpetuate the lies and the conspiracy theories. She wants the crazy to continue.

Again, for the likes of Greene or Boebert, this makes perfect sense, stuck on MAGA, stuck on stupid. They wouldn’t be politicians in any normal world. They are in Congress solely because they rode the wave of the Trump aberration. The minute Trump’s gone, they’ll be gone as well.

Stefanik should see this. But again, she’s got the snow blindness. She cannot see the blizzard for the flakes. And she is now a flake herself, surrounded by other flakes. Liz Cheney wasted no time calling her out.

Stefanik has gone to the Dark Side. Stefanik is only too happy to carry water for Donald Trump. She’s made her choice. What an abysmal choice to make.

As to whether she’ll realize what she’s doing and snap out of it and wake up, who knows?

Good ole trump 🔽🔽🔽🔽 pic.twitter.com/aPNSY4rQEL

— Renegade Cowboy🐾🐾 🌊⚓️🌊🐾🐾 (@Rene_gadeCowboy) January 7, 2024

I cringe when I realize the level of delusion in this country. I cringe when I see people like Elise Stefanik, Mike Johnson, the whole lot of them ready to throw away their oath to uphold the Constitution and uphold Trump instead. But then we know that power is both an aphrodisiac and a narcotic. And when you factor that in, then the actions of Johnson, Stefanik and all of them make sense. Tragic, yes it is, surprising, no, it is not.