Why do I feel like we're being played?

[caballojm]

This anonymous op-ed in the NYT has me wondering if the Repukes are simply done with Orange Caligula and trying to save their own sorry asses at the same time. How many of them are also up to their eyeballs in Russian collusion? If they 25th Amendment the scumbag before November, they get to play the heroes riding into the midterms hoping to keep the Democrats from retaking the House. Trumpy takes the fall and they continue to quash any real congressional investigations that will uncover their complicity. Maybe I'm just paranoid or maybe I'm just not used to Repugs ever putting the country over their own ugly and greedy ambitions.

[global1]

1. Remember Trump Was Brought To Us By The Courtesy Of The Repugs......

They didn't do proper vetting of their candidates as the primaries began. They didn't demand Trump make his taxes available. They just let him bully his way through to the nomination.

No - Nothing is going to help the Repugs in November and especially if Trump gets taken out by the 25th. They are responsible for everything that has happened since Trump declared he would be a candidate. They circled the wagons for this guy the whole time.

The Repugs will go down big time. The Dems and the MSM needs to make sure that the American People know this.

[Phoenix61]

2. They aren't putting the country over their own

ugly and greedy ambitions. They are desperately trying to salvage the repub party because congress is refusing to do its job of acting as a check on the executive branch.

[greyl]

3. Kind of agree. A group of Republicans are trying to

throw dotard under the bus, create distance, and save their own guilty-assed brand.

[populistdriven]

4. Elaine Chao is #DeepStateThroat

IMHO

[Kajun Gal]

5. We are ALL being played. It's a reality teevee show!

[fescuerescue]

6. If the Republicans say "by the power of the 25th! I cast thee out!"

(sorry for the drama)

What are we going to say "nah....don't do that"

yea I doubt it.

[WhiteTara]

7. I'm liking Pence as the writer.

He has everything to gain. Get rid of trump through the 25th, shut down Mueller before it gets to him and he's got the big job; he's got the scotus that he needs and then he gets to be the true manchurian candidate slipping in on the sly. Don't forget Manafort hand picked Pence for some reason.

[jalan48]

8. It feels that way to me as well. Another story to chase.

[NCTraveler]

9. It's all a bit surreal.

A group of people committing sedition under a President who is a traitor. And it appears to me that the group committing sedition might be more right wing than the traitor.

[Solly Mack]

10. You're not paranoid. It does seem like a bullshit narrative is being formulated.

[D23MIURG23]

11. Maybe the author wants the cabinet to dump trump for self interested reasons.

I still view that as a positive. We need to get rid of this dangerous nutjob before he breaks the entire government.

I don't think it plays into the GOP electoral strategy, because I was pretty sure the narrative was supposed to be "everything is normal, black is white, lies are truth, the Democrats just have Trump derangement syndrome". The GOP congress has still been complicit in supporting trump, and it's not even clear to me that they would go along with it, because of how livid it would make the MAGAts. You need a 2/3 majority of both houses to remove a president that way.

[fescuerescue]

12. I don't get why a secret internal opposition

Would want the world to know it exists.

The motivation doesn't seem to align with expected results.