Will the GOP Dump Trump?

[Nevilledog]

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https://newsletters.theatlantic.com/wait-what/62290ecd199fdd00214040c1/will-the-gop-dump-trump/


Donald Trump withers in darkness. He needs sunlight—media attention—to thrive. Otherwise, he reverts to his natural state: Florida-based hotelier who will direct you to the omelet station or maybe give a toast at your wedding or bar mitzvah (though the toast is likely to focus more on the 2020 election than your blessed event). As Ukraine, gas prices, and other events of actual note dominate the news cycle, there is less and less room for Trump. Add in the fact that he’s also on the utterly wrong side of one of those events—Russia’s invasion of Ukraine—and for the first time since 2015, Republicans have a relatively painless way to rid themselves of the Mango Mussolini once and for all. Will they take it?

Probably not. But they should.

Trump is clearly feeling his displacement from the media ecosystem; hence his single-spaced three-page letter to NBC Nightly News anchor Lester Holt about Holt’s interview with Bill Barr (part of the Bill Barr Historical Revisionism Book Tour, as I call it). Some might see the letter, which boils down to a greatest-hits collection of Trump’s usual complaints, nicknames, and lies, as a Trumpy way to correct “the record,” whatever that means in Trumpworld. But I see it as yet another desperate attempt to inject himself back into the media discourse. The problem is that Trump, like an elderly vaudevillian, has only a few tired topics in his repertoire.

Bill Barr was a big disappointment to me as Attorney General, he was afraid to act, and usually didn't. Even the Mueller investigation, which came out with a finding of NO COLLUSION, should have gone much faster, especially after knowing all of the information that was available and already at their disposal. As everyone now knows, my campaign was SPIED on, and Bill Barr did nothing about it. Comey, McCabe, the Two Lovers, and everyone all the way up and down knew what was happening, but Barr didn't want to “upset the apple cart.”

Things are not going great for Donald Trump. While the Manhattan District Attorney Alvin Bragg has seemingly backed off the investigation into the former president’s businesses, Trump is still the subject of multiple investigations. There’s one pending in Georgia regarding the 2020 election, there are several civil suits related to the events of January 6, and there is also increasing pressure on Attorney General Merrick Garland, in part from the House select committee investigating January 6, to mount a Department of Justice investigation of Trump’s activities. We don’t know if Garland will do anything, but it sure would be nice if the DOJ would do its J-O-B.

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[Me.]

1. Odd That Such A Vampire Of Other People's Blood Should Wither In Darkness

[TheRealNorth]

2. No

Because when Trump says he like dictators because they have the power to kill whoever he wants, they have wet dreams about mowing down BLM protestors like they are Rick or Darryl in "The Walking Dead".

[Claustrum]

4. TBH, if we aren't one United States and each state is a country like in Europe,

I am almost certain some red states would have declared war on some blue states.

[msongs]

3. why not, his underlings in FL and TX are getting the trump agenda done w/out trump nt

[634-5789]

5. Put a fork in that fat orange jackass...he's done.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

11. Better have plenty of Air Fresheners handy.

Like a SUPER STRONG Pine scent to mask the foul air that will follow.

[Dan]

6. Donald Trump is like a pineapple in the GOP asshole.

It hurts to keep him and it hurts to pass him.

[3catwoman3]

7. A VERY few tired topics...

…in his repertoire. He’s a one-trick jackass.

[Chainfire]

8. They can't dump him and win elections in the near future.

His voters would stay home and the party would be screwed, blued and tattooed. The best thing that could happen for the Republican Party is if Vladimir Trump had a bad case of sudden death syndrome. If he stumbled off a balcony or choked on a Diet Coke. They could give him a Viking Funeral, erect a statue and forget about him. I am surprised that that hasn't happened yet. The Republican leadership probably wants him gone as much as we do, but as the Wicked Witch of the West said, "These things have to be done very carefully."

What my fear is is what is to follow. DeSantis is a bigger danger to the Democracy than Trump. The only saving grace is that he may not be able to win the hearts of the redneck followers like Trump did. DeSantis may be better to look at, but he is much harder to love.

[rso]

12. DeSantis

I recently saw DeSantis as we was entering a Hotel in WPB, and apart from being 5’6”” at most, he’s ballooned well into obese territory. He can do something about his weight, but not his height, and short candidates don’t make good presidential contenders.

[Dan]

14. Looking at DeSantis from Washington State

I think he’s insane…

[Chainfire]

15. He still polled second to Trump at the CPAC straw poll.

While his actions seem crazy us, I don't think that he is as crazy as he is just evil. He has an ongoing campaign to try to out-Nazi all of the other potential candidates, if Trump is not available to run, it may work for him.

[efhmc]

9. So made me laugh.

Thanks.

[ProudMNDemocrat]

10. Not that he is in HIGH demand for his intellect...

Unlike his predecessors when they left office. They were invited to give speeches, they wrote best selling books, made documentaries, or continued to serve in other capacities.

TDFG has done none of that other than replay old grievances that the election was stolen from him. Poor baby!!

[everyonematters]

13. Not until he loses an election really bad.

[PlanetBev]

16. I hope they never get rid of him

He needs to remain the anvil around their necks. Believe me, they wish he’d disappear.

[Strelnikov_]

17. Agree n/t