Wall Street Journal Editor Has Had It With Republicans Who Back Donald Trump's Big Lie

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

Gerard Baker, the editor-at-large of The Wall Street Journal, urged Republicans to publicly denounce Donald Trump and the former president’s baseless claims that the 2020 election was stolen from him.

In an opinion piece published Monday, Baker wrote that many prominent Republicans and major donors don’t actually believe Trump’s election lies and would love for him to “go quietly away.”

“It is a desire expressed as fervently in private as it is assiduously and dexterously avoided in public,” said Baker, who served as the conservative newspaper’s editor-in-chief until 2018.

Republicans worry Trump leading the presidential ticket in 2024 will be a “lose-lose” situation and the GOP is “is too important a political institution to continue to be a vehicle for this grand deception,” he added.

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/wall-street-journal-editor-has-had-it-with-republicans-who-back-donald-trumps-big-lie/ar-AAWBtTP

Though the Wall Street Urinal loved all the tax breaks a right wing judges TFG gave them.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

1. Good luck with that!

[dalton99a]

2. Kick

It may or may not come as a shock to you, dear reader, to learn that the fervent desire of much of the Republican Party’s top brass, its major donors, business leaders who urgently crave a Republican restoration, and many of the party’s most prominent supporters in the media and elsewhere, is for Mr. Trump to break the habits of a lifetime and go quietly away.

With the exception of a few demented types in Congress and the media, they don’t believe that the 2020 election was stolen from Mr. Trump. They don’t think that the Jan. 6 riot was a legitimate act of protest or the work of federal agents provocateurs. They fear that a Trump-led Republican ticket presents them with a lose-lose proposition in 2024: Either he continues his well-established pattern of losing the party elections—the 2018 midterms, the 2020 general election, the 2021 Georgia senate runoffs—or he wins and condemns them to another, potentially even more chaotic four years of his distinctive leadership.

The prayerful, desperate hope of most of them is that somehow he doesn’t run again in 2024, a wish that every day looks less likely to be fulfilled. Some of them hope, with or without malice, that he might be too old or somehow physically incapacitated from running again.

Of course they say none of this where it might be heard and relayed back to the man himself. They dare not risk his wrath or the retribution of voters for whom the man, not the party, is what matters.

[DanieRains]

3. I Thought Lying About Non Existent Voter Fraud Was A Felony In Many States

I am sure I read that somewhere.

[barbaraann]

4. Hey, WSJ! The Big Lie has a history! Don't act like this is new!

Trump has longstanding history of calling elections 'rigged' if he doesn’t like the results
https://abcnews.go.com/Politics/trump-longstanding-history-calling-elections-rigged-doesnt-results/story?id=74126926

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On election night in 2012, when President Barack Obama was reelected, Trump said that the election was a "total sham" and a "travesty," while also making the claim that the United States is "not a democracy" after Obama secured his victory.
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When he ran to become the Republican Party nominee in 2016, he attempted to cast doubt on the election process. Trump said he did not lose the Iowa caucuses in 2016 to then candidate Sen. Ted Cruz, because he "stole it."
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In October 2016, just weeks before the general election, Trump wanted to cast doubt on the results by tweeting, "The election is absolutely being rigged by the dishonest and distorted media pushing Crooked Hillary - but also at many polling places - SAD," without providing any evidence for the claim.
...
Fast forward to today, Trump took to his favorite platform, just moments before major media outlets had projected Biden the winner in this year's election, and falsely tweeted, "I WON THIS ELECTION, BY A LOT!"

[dalton99a]

5. +1

[Emile]

6. Trump on the ticket will guarantee the democrats will get out and vote!

[70sEraVet]

7. The real problem is, Republican politicians cannot afford to lose the racists and bigots

If the Party dumps Trump, his Deplorables leave with him.
In this case, the monster they have created has the pitchfork waving, torch carrying angry crowd as his FAN CLUB!

[gratuitous]

8. So whaddya gunna do, WSJ?

Will you quit hosting Republicans who back the Big Lie, and stop quoting them in stories? Will you require them to answer questions about the Big Lie - and quote them in any story - before you ask them to opine on the issue of the day?

Or is the publication of this editorial as far as things go? And when it all comes crashing down because this kind of nonsense isn't sustainable and you know it, you'll feebly point to that one editorial back in 2022 when you sort of denounced the Big Lie.

[barbaraann]

10. Excellent post. My guess is Option #2.

[Achilleaze]

9. Lose-lose for the Republican losers.

Would be win-win for America.