Why the GOP is keeping TFG bubble-wrapped
(CNN)The House select committee to investigate the January 6 insurrection will begin in less than two weeks, but House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy is still dithering. He first floated the idea of boycotting the committee, then began drawing up a roster of Republicans to serve on it. Earlier this week in an interview on Fox News, he waffled again. "I haven't made a decision yet, even to appoint," he said. "I'm discussing it with my members. I have a real concern, the scope of what we're looking at."
McCarthy's indecisiveness comes at the same time as the release of two new books — "Frankly, We Did Win This Election" by Michael C. Bender and "Landslide" by Michael Wolff — that examine former President Donald Trump's efforts to overturn the 2020 election. They chart the development of the "Big Lie" that fueled the insurrection: that Trump was the rightful winner of the 2020 election, and that his legal team had amassed enough evidence to ensure he would stay in office. And they reveal, sometimes inadvertently, why the Big Lie was so effective, and why Trump and his supporters still pose a threat to American democracy.
Both books draw their titles from Trump's false claims: that he won -- and by a landslide. Both also begin with the consequence of those lies: the deadly riot at the Capitol and the rapid impeachment that followed. Bender's is by far the better book, but Wolff's is instructive because of the argument at its heart -- that Trump was not a proto-dictator scheming to seize power, but a bumbling amateur incapable of organizing any serious threat to the nation.
Wolff rejects the portrait of Trump as someone engaged in "a corrupt, cynical, despotic effort to hold on to power and to subvert democracy." Instead, he suggests that what happened in the Trump administration was "a far more complicated human and political tale of desperation and delusion," one in which Trump was an incompetent leader who haplessly wandered into an insurrection, only to be abandoned by his allies, like former Attorney General William Barr, and emerge in the end "a team of one."
https://www.cnn.com/2021/07/15/opinions/gop-loyalty-trump-big-lie-hemmer/index.html
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Kingdom - the King being reduced to a zombie.. - and in chains...
