NYT: Fearing a ‘Blood Bath,’ Republican Senators Begin to Edge Away From Trump
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Republicans are going to destroy everything, even more than they have, on the way out. A stimulus isn't coming because they want to fuck over Biden.
Biden will work to fix everything but he won't be able to do it "fast enough" and the media will rally behind the GOP's next "Smart Trump" like Tom Cotton or Hawley. We're doomed to this shitty cycle and I have no fucking idea how we break out of it.
Biden will work to fix everything but he won't be able to do it "fast enough" and the media will rally behind the GOP's next "Smart Trump" like Tom Cotton or Hawley. We're doomed to this shitty cycle and I have no fucking idea how we break out of it.
It was true then too, and for the same reasons: Republicans know that Trump is an amoral racist sexist fascist moron, and that him having any amount of power is a catastrophe, but they are too cowardly to do anything other than run the world's quietest whispering campaign behind his back, and even then, they will only do that when they think he's going to lose. They think he's going to lose now, and they thought he was going to lose in 2016. They snapped back into line in 2016 the moment he won. If he somehow wins this year, they will be backing him as loudly as they can one picosecond later.
They're hedging their bets. Appear to be distancing so if he loses you can say you didn't fully support him and if he wins you can point out all the ways you supported him.
But given how much early voting is happening I find this whole idea of moving away from Trump now hilarious. It's too late!
I recall the initial reaction from Republicans to Trump running from President was that they too thought it was a joke and there was a lot of mockery of him, then they realized he became the favorite of most right wingers so the tuned changed very quickly when it was clear he was their best chance of winning the presidency. In 2016 he had the advantage of more people underestimating that he could win.
Senate Republicans blaming their fortunes on Trump and not on, you know, themselves for not voting to impeach him is definitely a take.
I have a feeling the GOP have created a decent number of people who will never even consider voting for a Republican after the way they've behaved the last 4 years.
As others have mentioned, the fact they're still going to confirm ACB and aren't actually speaking out in public about Trump just shows how spineless they are.
As others have mentioned, the fact they're still going to confirm ACB and aren't actually speaking out in public about Trump just shows how spineless they are.
The GOP controlled Congress for the first two years of his term and they never gave him his wall funding, I guess right? Although he eventually got the "down payment" bill after that and the SCOTUS approved the reallocation of some DoD funds.
They know it may be the last thing they can really do for sometime, GOP is looking to take a major blow this election so of course they gotta fast track the most lasting thing they can get down.
They'll try but without the cult or personality that Trump has there isn't a lot of hope for the GOP honestly, remember their last big candidates along with Trump were Rubio, Cruz, and Jeb Bush. Not exactly glowing with charisma there.
Within a month from elections and now is the time they thought it would be to distance themselves? They must have really put all their eggs into resurfacing stuff from biden's children
It should be noted that the internet has grown bigger over the years so it should be harder in general to get away with lies for politicians
It's never been easier to flood the internet with bullshit and muddy the waters, though.
You're kidding right? The lies have been mainstreamed. Fox News is driving people like Alex Jones out of business by mainstreaming the conspiracy theories and outright deception. You just claim the facts are lies, the lies are truth, and move on 1984 style.
I think the poster is pointing out that Obama didn't really do much to end Republican corruption or make them liable for their actions. Though I also think the original post wasn't referring to that by ''mess"
Oh...right. Well, It really will be a repeat of us crawling out of an absolute shit show the same way Obama did after Bush.