Marsha Blackburn Reacts To Being Called “Trump In A Wig” by Swift

I must say, there are put downs and there are put downs and Trump in a wig is a double ouch. Make that a quadruple ouch. If the coiffure fits, wear it. Marsha Blackburn is a total MAGA sycophant. I’m surprised that she’s not trying to get on the GOP ticket as VP, as vociferously pro-Trump as she is. With any luck Blackburn may go the way of Trump in November, which is out of politics and our daily discourse.

It’s always so satisfying when one of these clowns is in the rear view mirror. Madison Cawthorn used to take up a lot of oxygen but he’s long gone now. His was a candle that burned both short and dull. For a one term congressman he managed to pack his calendar full of scandal, second only to George Santos. Now, he’s gone, Santos is gone, and even Ron DeSantis is gone. Wouldn’t it be great to color Marsha Blackburn gone?

278 days, @MarshaBlackburn 🗳️ #swifties pic.twitter.com/fhCAC2cEU6

— The Lincoln Project (@ProjectLincoln) February 1, 2024

MAGA is a vocal minority. It may even possibly be a fad. Certainly the Donald Trump level of MAGA is not going to endure forever. He’s the charismatic cult leader and when he’s not at the head of the cult anymore, a lot of the cult will fall away of its own weight.

There’s little question in anyone’s mind but that the MAGA crazies are here to stay, the reason being that they represent the fringe elements of the Republican party that have always been there. They’re simply united in one coalition called MAGA. And it’s fully expected that people like Ron DeSantis will be attempting to cultivate MAGA for quite some time to come. Not only DeSantis, but Josh Hawley, the lot of them. You know the names.

So MAGA is here to stay but MAGA sans Trump will be an interesting thing to observe. And then what about the conservatives or “sane” Republicans? As we’ve said here many times and will continue to say, it looks like today’s GOP has hit the end of the road, much as the Whigs hit their end in the mid 1800’s. The Whigs collapsed and the Republican party arose. Now it looks like it’s time for the Republican party to collapse and for something else to arise in its place.

You see the signs of that all around you. Different conservative conventions headed by people from The Bulwark and other like-minded center-right publications happen with regularity.

And there is need for two functioning political parties. Democracy is based on that very thing. Since 2015 we’ve seen one functioning political party and one crippled and toxic party, helmed by a crippled and toxic personality, namely Donald Trump. The GOP in this form cannot endure. Nobody believes this more than Republicans, they’re just not talking about it openly, we are. But they are plenty worried.

And with with good cause. They lost in 2018, 2020, 2022 (which was supposed to be the big comeback and wasn’t) and now their standard bearer is under indictment in four jurisdictions and just lost a hefty defamation damages case, to the woman he was adjudicated as raping. None of this bodes well for the future of the party.

And the last person to care is Trump. He’s out for number one. As Lindsey Graham so aptly observed and opined in 2015, “If we nominate Trump we will be destroyed and we will deserve it.” We are seeing that prophecy come to pass. It was believable then but like many dark prophecies from mythology, there was no escaping it. It was fate. But what is the GOP’s post Trump fate? Ask The Shadow, maybe he knows. It’s a cinch the Republicans don’t.