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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThe Trump Infallibility Doctrine: The president cannot fail--he can only be failed.
Those searching for the red line Trump can cross that will magically turn the Republican Party against him will be disappointed. As long as Trump maintains the support of the people the GOP has concluded are the only Americans who matter, they will sustain him, no matter how many crimes he commits, no matter how much of his corruption is exposed, and no matter how many catastrophes he arbitrarily creates overseas. This is the logic of Trumpist nationalism: permanent minority rule by those who have decided that they are the only real Americans.
[link:https://www.theatlantic.com/ideas/archive/2019/11/republicans-believe-trump-infallible/601426/|]
Heh. If they burn with him who gives a shit. When the political realignment happens they will be out of power for a decade and hopefully justice will come knocking on their racist wanker doors.
Thomas Hurt
(13,903 posts)Caliman73
(11,725 posts)Which is why conservatives fell in line so easily with Trump. Conservatism cannot fail, one can only fail conservatism. Trump could not have campaigned as a Democrat because our ideology is distinct from that of conservatives. We do "fall in love" with candidates, as the saying goes, and we can be defensive, but we can also tell when a candidate strays from what the party stands for and we will say so.
Conservatives fall in line behind whoever is the flag bearer for the ideology. Trump will fail and then he will have "failed conservatism" that will be what people in the party will say when Trump goes down and they look for their next standard bearer.
Now, Trump does have a cult of personality behind him at this point which seems to transcend the party, but when he goes down, they will diminish.