Tuesday, August 1, 2017

The Follies continue

Kelly is in.  The Mooch is out.  Ivanka is whining.  tRump is tweeting.  It would seem we can just rinse and repeat for the next 3 1/2 years or until the GOP grows a backbone and starts impeachment proceedings.  Athenae at the blog "First Draft" takes down a National Review columnist who opined that republicans were taken in by the con of Donald Trump.  He advertised he was a businessman who could run the country like the well oiled machine that was the Trump Organization.  As she puts it, that is BS.  Once it was clear The Donald was going to win the nomination against a field of under achievers, the establishment made a Faustian bargain to support him in the expectation he would sign the bills which would disestablish decades of social progress.  For the average Trump voter, most did not care about his business record, but were inspired by his relentless political incorrectness.  They voted for him to stick their thumb in the eye of the vicious coastal liberals who Fox News and Rushbo were telling them looked down on their values.  Thanks to the cover provided by the GOP, Trump was able to sustain his message of racist, immigrant bashing misogyny with very little pushback.  With an assist from James Comey, he was pushed over the electoral college finish line and in an everlasting stain on our republic is now the president.  I don't see any way out of this...

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