What you’re about to see will give you chills. You probably remember seeing these moments in real time as they occurred. Once upon a time the Republican party saw Donald Trump for who and what he was, just like the rest of us. But when their vacuum of leadership resulted in Trump winning primaries, then sheer survival took over as their overriding instinct. That makes sense to a certain extent. But when you sell your soul and abandon every principle you ever stood for, for a temporary berth of power, the price is way too high. Trump never was and never was going to be a legitimate Republican president in a line of same. He was a freak show, still is, and will go down in flames as such, except he’s going to take the GOP with him. Why? Because they won’t get off the sinking ship, so now they’re saying that the ship really isn’t sinking, it never even hit an iceberg, that’s just fake news.
This is the rank hypocrisy and moral bankruptcy of these so-called 'conservatives' who have now capitulated to the cult of Trump, a man they had rightly denounced as a mendacious charlatan and a threat to our great republic.
— A Very British Dad in America (@MChowdry) June 17, 2024
They’re doing this in the hope that they can somehow rally the rest of the country to MAGA, which is what’s left of the GOP. The lunatic fringe converged in favor of Trump and that’s who supports him; the hard core religious loonies, the racists, the misogynists, the worst of the worst that ever walked into the GOP tent. And then there are the pure MAGAs, meaning the people like Mike Lindell, who never voted in their lives, but once they found a crazy candidate talking nonsense, then they decided, “This is the guy for me.”
Trump distills politics down into a simplistic formula, which it is not and which it can never be. He pretends that tariffs are checks that foreign governments, China in particular, write to the treasury, which is absurd. Tariffs are a tax on goods that the consumer pays. Tariffs can be complex. There is a high tariff on BMWs from Germany, for instance, because there are BMW plants producing the car domestically. Trump omits facts like that when talking about rebuilding the Detroit auto industry. This is not a simplistic, black and white subject. Nothing involving world trade or global economics is. But simplistic talking points are all Trump understands.
Trump makes promises he cannot keep. His most infamous example was the wall on the Mexican border and his most recent one is that he will eliminate taxes on tips for tipped workers — at least in Nevada, he made that promise. It’s gibberish, the GOP knows it, but they have no other option.
And it brings to mind the final scene in the movie Thelma And Louise, where they have no other option but to drive the car over the cliff and destroy themselves. Thelma and Louise didn’t get there overnight. But in embracing destructive decisions, one after the other, they finally found themselves in a situation where a dramatic suicide was the only path they had left.
Watch the GOP show you what that looks like in real life. We’ve been watching it for nine years now, this show is finally going to climax and end. The only question now is the coda: Trump will likely be convicted in his three remaining criminal trials and as to the GOP, it’s Phoenix time, rise from the ashes in a new form.
Watching members of the GO grovel at Trump’s feet to become his VP or future Cabinet Member is like watching Monty Python’s Twit of the Year Race:
Thanks Thatfield for reminding me how brilliant those guys were. Yep. That not only sums up the gop field, it evidently sums up our country, given where we’ve been and where we are. And we’re supposedly admired in the world? why?