The difficult takes time. The impossible takes a little longer
Sweet Jesus this has taken long enough. To do this properly, we have to start with a little electoral history. I promise I’ll keep this as brief as possible.
Back in July of 2015 when Traitor Tot farted his way down that rattletrap escalator at Trump Tower to announce his candidacy for President of the United States, believe me, the mainstream GOP thought he was every bit as much of an ass clown as everybody else in the country did.
KKKeebler the Elf, Jess Sessions was the first nimrod GOP Senator to actually endorse Trump. To be honest I can’t even remember which the first GOP House numb nuts was to endorse him. But the rest of the mainstream GOP treated him like the joke in bad taste he was. His GOP primary opponents heaped a nonstop bucket of sh*t on his head. All was well.
And then the unthinkable happened. The Orange Poltroon gained traction. He appealed to the largely ignored, self pitying lower class GOP base, and suddenly Trump was at the top of the heap. And Traitor Tot made his intentions clear from the start. Complete control of power in the GOP. Before the first primary, he threatened to take his 33% base and start a 3rd party candidacy if he didn’t get the nomination.
Miscalculation #1. Reince Priebus and the RNC thought actually thought that they could control this renegade wrecking ball. Their first goal was containment. Keep this wooly mammoth from derailing the GOP’s promising House and Senate prospects. Let Trump implode on the national stage, but keep an iron ring of GOP House and Senate domination to hamstring a Clinton presidency.
But then the silly bastard won. And all of the GOP adults in the room suddenly found that they were stuck with a 6 year old kid jacked up on three double bags of M&M’s. And then the unthinkable happened. Traitor Tot realized that he could fire the adults in the room. And then Hannibal Lecter was out of his straight jacket.
Then salvation. The Democrats stomped the GOP for 40 House seats in the 2018 midterm elections. The Democrats put the emergency brakes on Trump’s baser instincts while they also investigated his Russian ties with a Special Counsel. The GOP disaster was averted.
Miscalculation #2. Following the House debacle of 2018, the GOP indulged in a little self delusion. They had plighted their troth to Trump heart and soul, and now they were in the barrel. But Trump still had the White House and the GOP still controlled the Senate. They decided that they could shough off Trump’s insane bullsh*t, and still maintain power and control. Folly, thy name is man.
Trump lost in 2020, but unlike any other presidential candidate in history, he refused to fade into the background. And because they had nobody else, and they were scared sh*tless of Trump’s insane base, and after all, they managed the loss of the senate, and soldiered on.
And now it’s finally over. It is perfectly clear, even to the faithful. that their savior is poison. In the last few weeks Trump himself has proven that there is no controlling him, simply because he’s incapable of controlling himself. Trump has degenerated to a state of racist, wrathful vengeance, and he’s going to take them all down with him.
The final straw was Biden withdrawing from the race, and Vice President Kamala Harris taking his place. With Harris, Trump and the GOP are faced with an opponent who not only doesn’t fear Trump, she is openly scornful of him. And Trump has no answer for Harris. Instead he just sinks deeper and deeper into the mire of sexism and racism.
Marry in haste, and repent at leisure. First the GOP thought that they could control Trump, and then they thought that they could live with him. And now, they’re all starting to sit down to put their resumes together for K Street. But it was a helluva ride while it lasted.
I thank you for the privilege of your time.
They must feel like they woke up in a fleabag motel with stains on the wall, a terrible hangover headache, a ball gag strapped around their head, and what they thought was a sexual conquest turned out to be farmer brown’s sow. You just can’t wash that out of your head with a shower. Oh and what’s Matt Gaetz and Majorie Green doing passed out in the other bed? YIKES!!!
Von shitzi broke…so damned much…the gqp bought it. They’re stuck with it whether they move away from the fool or sidle up real close to him. Let’s just make sure the stench of him NEVER leaves these f*ck-wits.
Excellent piece, Murph. But I’m not sure how to interpret “diggrtrf yjr loss.”
Priscianus, I think “diggrtrf yjr loss.” is “suffered the loss.”
Thanks! I appreciate your cryptographic skills.
Janet, I can see how you came up with “suffered the loss.” However, I can find neither “diggrtrf yjr loss” nor “suffered the loss” in the column. I have reread it twice since reading your suggestion. Could you tell me where it appears in the column? Thank you.
On a different typographical note, Murph wrote “shough off” near the end of the first paragraph of Miscalculation #2. My dictionary has no such word, so I think we should read it as “slough off.”