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Last Sunday, Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) declared President Trump to be childish and dangerous. And not only that: He said almost all of his colleagues agreed. Look, except for a few people, the vast majority of our caucus understands what were dealing with here, Corker told the New York Times after he labeled the White House an adult day-care center and said that Trump could set off World War III.
Six days later, precisely zero Republican senators have added their names to Corkers criticisms. Why?
Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson has a theory: Cowardice. More than anything else at this moment, he writes, the nation has need of Republican vertebrates.
But politicians arent just reflexive cowards; they are often calculated ones. And there are plenty of reasons we havent seen a mass exodus of GOP lawmakers from Trump if lots of them do indeed agree with Corker.
Here are five non-mutually exclusive possibilities:
1. They still hope against hope that Trump will change
2. Its an unnecessary risk, from a self-preservation standpoint
3. Some have paid the price for it
4. They dont trust themselves
5. It could destroy the GOP
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/analysis-5-reasons-the-gop-won%e2%80%99t-dump-trump/ar-AAtpW0l?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=edgsp
It could destroy the GOP if they don't
Iliyah
(25,111 posts)riddance.
L. Coyote
(51,129 posts)Of course, they are a bunch of losers with lower I.Q.'s, and probably feel so stupid or insecure they won't, so it's not their fault ....
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Exultant Democracy
(6,594 posts)We got reports that Ryan and McConnell were just as tainted as trump even before we got the Steel memo.
bearsfootball516
(6,376 posts)Trump is still popular in the midwest and down south. Any republican politician in a red state that turns on Trump can kiss their political career goodbye, and they know that.