when your advisors leak your delusions to the press just so someone will help to dissuade you
Menzo
10744
Too little too late from the National Review. They lost their cred among the Republican base ages ago, and this will be written off as just another RINO screed.
It is too late to try to put this toothpaste back in the tube.
ShivaX
10745
Oh agreed. I mostly enjoyed Vanderbroukās response of āyeah, thatās great, only no one in the GOP agrees with you because to do so would be to admit theyāre part of itā.
Menzo
10746
The calculation is simple for any Republican up for re-election in 2022:
Unless Iām in a very very rare competitive district, coming out against Trump only ensures that at minimum the base that turns out for primaries turns against me, but likely means being primaried by someone on my right who is willing to come out explicitly for Trump and everything he stands for, and I probably lose.
There are obviously some Republicans who are willing to stand on actual principles, but the rest just want to get re-elected. The only viable strategies for them are to either stay silent and hope nobody notices that you havenāt explicitly supported Trump, or make a full-throated Trump-supporting statement, bonus points for visiting him in person to kiss the ring.
Perhaps after the 2022 election if many of these cowards actually lose their races to Dems things might change, but that seems unlikely.
Matt_W
10747
To acknowledge that Trump is living in a fantasy world does not wipe out his achievements or render anything else he has said incorrect. It does not endorse Joe Biden or hand the Republican Party over to Bill Kristol or knock down an inch of the wall on the border. It merely demands that Donald Trump be treated like any other person: subject to gravity, open to rebuttal, and liable to be laughed at when he becomes so unmoored from the real world that it is hard to know where to begin in attempting to explain him.
Holy shit, this paragraph oozes crazy from all the seams. Cooke ate every bite of the shit sandwich and licked the plate clean, but complains a bit about the aftertaste.
The GOP is reaping what theyāve sown. Trump is now spouting insanity about being āreinstatedā in August because of all the lies he and his campaign told about the āStolen Electionā so often that he now believes them to be true. The fact that said lies incited his base to act on January 6th, and the subsequent refusal of the rest of the GOP to do a damn thing about both the insurrection and the election integrity lies or any of the bad faith state legislature shenanigans that have gone on since (all traceable back to the āelection integrityā bullshit) only serve to solidify his conviction that he really did have the election stolen from him and should be the legitimate President.
Trump will hold his rallies this summer, he will repeat these lies over and over and over, and his base will become more and more frenzied in their disassociation from reality. When August comes and goes without any reinstatement, that base will explode, resulting in acts of violence around the country. Meanwhile the GOP Congresspeople , complicit in all of this, will either take up Trumpās call in a show of fealty and desperate bid for votes, or remain silent in hopes that simply being an incumbent who didnāt speak out or vote against Trumpism will be enough to get them re-elected (it probably wonāt, as it is likely there are already far right primary challengers for any GOP incumbent who hasnāt expressed emphatic support for Emperor Trumpatine).
This is going to play out one way or another. The GOP has fully committed at this point to Trumpism as its last desperate attempt to grab and maintain power. We have to hope that the same people who turned from Trump to Biden (or simply stayed home) in 2020 do so again in 2022 since itās been proven that the GOP is now wholly and completely Trumpās party. It is going to take record turnout to overcome gerrymandering, voter intimidation and suppression and state legislative shenanigans to save democracy as we know it in 2022 and 2024.
More to the point, the Trumpies make up at least 40% of the people any GOP candidate needs to get the majority. If the candidate turns against Trump there is no way that the centrist independents and persuadable Democrats make up that deficit.
tldr: No Republican can win anywhere without the Trumpies.
And the writers who havenāt left tend to be hard partisans lacking integrity and actual conservative principles anyways. Andrew McCarthy tends to stand out to me in this regard.
Or, I guess, if you are a young and rich politician who seemingly is more interested in preserving your conscience than dreams of politics, as seems to be the case with Peter Meijer. Heās the guy who won Justin Amashās old seat and had to pay lip service to Trump to get through his primary. But at this point he doesnāt mince words when it comes to Trump, the election, or January 6th. Thatās at least something I can respect from a Republican politician these days. Especially since itāll likely mean he gets primaried out for 2022.
Dejin
10752
Iām not sure thatās true in Red States, at least not in general elections. Iād assume that Democrats would make common cause with Anti-Trumpers to get someone like Mitt Romney or Liz Cheney re-elected if they either make it through their primaries or run as independents ala Lisa Murkowski. Getting through the primary without the Trumpists might be a tough go though.
Itās not like Wyoming or Utah is going to elect a Democrat to state-wide office, and I think Democrats will realize that weāre better off having a non-crazy, non-Trumpist in office, even if it means voting for a Republican.
That only works (in most states, i.e. those that donāt have a ājungle primaryā) if appreciable numbers of Democrats switch registration to vote in the Republican primary.
Many states allow party-registered voters to vote in the āotherā partyās primary.
https://www.ncsl.org/research/elections-and-campaigns/primary-types.aspx
Only 15 states have closed or partially closed primaries.
I donāt know that the person responsible for silencing the retired Lt. Col. when he was talking about the important role African Americans played in establishing what became Memorial Day is a Republican - but Iāll take that bet all day.
Timex
10757
The Legion is calling for those idiots to resign.
Oh, also, the lady who is responsible for this looks EXACTLY like you imagine she looks.
Christ, what a bootlicker. ā Delicacy prevents me from using a harsher term.
CraigM
10759
Delicacy does not prevent me.
Sheās a racist cunt, as the Brits would say.
KevinC
10760
Sheās missing the requisite flagwear. Iām gonna dock her at least one or two Patriot Points.
Timex
10761
HAHAHAHAHAHA
Hereās a pic of her from that day
Actually I was referring to George P Bush in response to @ShivaXās post but the lady in question also deserves execration.
(I was going to say that Jebās son is an asslicking toady.)
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