Trump-regret syndrome is spreading among Republicans after Helsinki: How far will it go?

[DonViejo]

Many Republicans are turning their backs on Trump after the Helsinki disgrace. Will they come crawling back?

JARED YATES SEXTON
JULY 18, 2018 6:30PM (UTC)

“I just kept watching,” a Republican acquaintance told me in disbelief. “And I just kept waiting, and waiting, and waiting for him to do something. Anything. I yelled, ‘Stand up for your country, for the love of God!’ And nothing. Not even a peep.”

As a serving member in a state Republican Party organization, my acquaintance has taken a great amount of grief over the past three years. When Donald Trump first arrived on the political scene in 2015, he urged his colleagues to hear the billionaire mogul out. He appreciated the tough talk on immigration, the no-nonsense attitude that both differed from regular politicians and dared put them in their place. He thought Trump might not be the worst response to the Barack Obama presidency, which he considered weak and conciliatory.

After Trump wrested away control of the party from the GOP establishment, my acquaintance bought a Make America Great Again hat and slapped a Trump/Pence sticker on his car’s bumper. He met the nominee as a delegate to the Republican National Convention in Cleveland and rolls his eyes when his liberal colleagues and relatives post their Robert Mueller fantasies on social media. He’s stood by Trump when he criticized Gold Star families, waffled on condemning the neo-Nazis who rioted in Charlottesville and, until this week, has never so much as considered the possibility Trump had colluded with Russia.

“I’ve had it,” he said. “There is some shit I will not eat. I’m done apologizing for Donald J. Trump. Done.”

This repudiation was earned after Monday’s disastrous press conference in Helsinki, where President Trump stood side-by-side with Russian President Vladimir Putin, a despot who has cracked down on his citizens’ individual freedoms and has quite likely ordered the murders of dissidents, journalists and political opponents. It was bad enough, my acquaintance fumed, that Trump didn’t challenge Putin’s record, but the coup de grâce came when the president criticized U.S. intelligence agencies’ assertion that Russia interfered with our elections and instead supported Putin’s denial of meddling.

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https://www.salon.com/2018/07/18/trump-regret-syndrome-is-spreading-among-republicans-after-helsinki-how-far-will-it-go/

[exboyfil]

1. I think this is the time

If you got them, then smoke them. NY is filing criminal charges on the charity - that is a good start. If Meuller have more associate indictments, maybe this is the time to unseal them.

[Cha]

2. I'm shocked they turned

their backs in the first place.. especially after the Fraud Lied afterwards to try and make Helsinki Go Away.

Remember Helsinki!

[Fred Sanders]

6. Even the braindead base seemed to wake up when the troops Trump supported were Russian.

The braindead base seemed not happy with GRU military intelligence officers being the troops Trump was supporting! That would be even worse than shooting 10 folks in 5th Ave. in broad daylight.

Every time I hear "support our troops" from Trump or anything military/patriotic, the braindead base needs to be reminded...because we can also sow discord and doubt as well as any Russian.

[Cha]

9. Good to know, Fred!

[msongs]

3. article is short on repub names whove actually DONE anything. nt

[PSPS]

5. Of course it is. But it got you to click on a Salon link and, thus, served its purpose.

[Nay]

8. Yep. Time for these Pubs to start howling out loud about impeachment, just like they howled

and impeached Clinton.

Otherwise, it's just a bunch of hot air so these individuals can wring their hands and say they are worried, like, really worried.

[Achilleaze]

4. "There is some shit I will not eat." - republican

Hello? Most folks came to that conclusion several years ago. Better to puke up the deceitful, cowardly, and treasonous republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief now, than to let him continue to poison America's body politic.

The kremlin wants to divide and weaken America. republican misleader Dirty Donny is their weapon of choice.

[beachbum bob]

7. Gonna take millions to have any effect..and his approval number 30% or below

[Buns_of_Fire]

10. Republican PARTY members were probably never all that Hot to Trot for Trump

in the first place. Now, when hard-core, full-scale, hat-wearing, rally-attending psycho trumpanzees start wearing T-Shirts that say "Trump Can't Grab My ***** Anymore"... THEN you'll start seeing a quantum shift -- probably to Charles Manson.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

11. Not far enough

Most Repukes like Trump.