I KNOW this sounds crazy, but ...
… please hear me out. I first had this thought last fall, and I think I might be onto something.
I believe that the powers-that-be in the Republican party want Trump gone.
When they first elected him, I’m sure they saw him as a political rube, someone who could be easily manipulated into doing their bidding due to his lack of political experience, along with an obvious lack of any real enthusiasm for the job.
No doubt he was seen as what he was – a bloviating con artist who could sell the GOP agenda to their low-info, low-IQ ‘base’, while doing what he was told by party higher-ups. He was going to be their ‘president-in-name-only’, a lazy-assed grifter who’d be satisfied with acting the part between golf games.
They’d paved the way for him – getting Evangelical leaders on board who gladly convinced their sheep that a thrice-married adulterer was a good Christian man, tidying up his past as a liar and a cheat by passing him off as a self-made billionaire, convincing Republican voters that the prosperity he had personally achieved would translate into untold success and riches for them as well.
Trump’s nude model wife, Melania, was sold as a model First Lady. Ivanka, Jared, Don Junior and Eric were touted as trusted advisors, despite knowing absolutely nothing about domestic or foreign policy. And the base lapped it up.
It was all so easy-as-pie perfect, a movie script written by a GOP that saw the destruction of the environment, the dismantling of our democracy, and the distancing of our nation’s allies as a means to their ends.
What could possibly go wrong – other than everything?
Once ensconced in the Oval Office, the man the Republican party had dismissed as their puppet turned out to be Putin’s puppet instead – the problem being that he was blatantly obvious about it. The Republican higher-ups that had imagined a pOTUS who’d restrict his word-salad meanderings to anecdotal tales about his alleged prowess on the links were now saddled with a ‘stable genius’ prone to hissy-fits, thousands of ludicrous lies, and public meltdowns. The candidate they’d championed as a man-of-the-people exposed himself as being a man out for himself – the people and the party that supported him be damned.
The PTB in the GOP know that Trump is unelectable to a second term. They know that he has done incredible damage to their ‘brand’. They know that his disapproval numbers are a death knell – and they know that bell tolls for them.
The Mueller report, children in cages, racist rhetoric that led to the deaths of innocents, “very fine people on both sides”, the endless litany of easily-debunked lies, the refusal to believe our own intelligence agents over Putin’s ‘word for it’, paid-off porn stars, meetings with Russian agents about ‘adoptions’, Middle East peace plans concocted by a know-nothing, debt-ridden son-in-law, the ‘very best people’ ending up in prison, Republicans perjuring themselves, the exploded deficit, tariffs that are bankrupting farmers, hate crimes and mass shootings on the rise, a shaky stock market, the distrust of our allies – and the blatant stupidity of a “pResident” who thinks wind turbines cause cancer, and claims the Revolutionary War was won because the colonists shut down the airports in 1775.
As devoted as the Republicans have been in their attempts to defend the indefensible, there comes a time when you realize that your “pResident” has effectively destroyed your party’s chances of winning the votes of Hispanic “rapists”, Muslim “terrorists”, people from “shithole countries”, parents appalled by children in cages, Christians who actually embrace the teachings of Christ, women who want the right to choose, decent people who want assault weapons off our streets, people with morals who don’t want a self-proclaimed pussy-grabber in the White House, and those who don’t want people designated as security risks operating without security clearances that give them valid access to our country’s classified information.
The Trump supporters that are left are just that – Trump supporters rather than GOP supporters. There aren’t enough of them to secure his re-election, and the Republicans know that.
I believe the GOP have abandoned all hope of seeing their fair-haired boy elected to a second term. But at this point, they have no choice but to play along to get along. Offering primary challengers to The Dotard would be an admission that the idiot they’d foisted on their own party was a monumental mistake – and they’re not about to own up to that particular catastrophe. They have no alternative than to dance with the idiot who brought them to the electoral prom, knowing that he’s the guy most likely to shit in the punchbowl before the band finishes their final set.
Trumpism is over, it’s done, and the only people keeping it on life-support are those who simply have no alternative but to pretend that imminent disaster is just part of the same hoax being promoted by such ne’er-do-wells as scientists, economists, political analysts, historians – and the well-educated, well-informed intellectual nut-jobs who give credence to their dire warnings.
The Republican PTB are tired of coming up with creative explanations for their “pResident’s” insanity – and it shows.
The forever-faithful pundits still turn up on the news shows – but looking like they’re facing a firing squad instead of those cameras they were once convinced they could seduce into submission.
Even the Evangelicals are having second thoughts about Trump being the Second Coming – and everyone knows that those ongoing investigations into the Trump Crime Family aren’t going to end in "total vindication, total exoneration!" no matter how many times Twitler tweets exactly that.
I’m not saying we shouldn’t do everything possible to get the vote out. We still have a fight on our hands, and all able-minded soldiers are expected to do their part.
But I do believe that our enemies in the GOP have taken as much from Trump as they can swallow. They are watching their party being decimated, their ‘brand’ being trampled into the mud, and their once-touted ‘principles’ being exposed as non-existent.
The party that now spends its every waking hour trying to spin that ridiculous pile of straw that is Trump into gold are hearing the name Rumpelstiltskin louder and louder with every passing day – and they’re as tired of defending this bullshit as we are of hearing it.
They want him gone, maybe as much as we do – or even more so, because it’s not our party that’s being destroyed every time he opens his mouth, it’s theirs.
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