The Emperor of Chaos Has No Clothes

[dalton99a]

https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/12/opinion/trump-election-midterm.html
https://archive.ph/H9fsF

The Emperor of Chaos Has No Clothes
Nov. 12, 2022, 9:00 a.m. ET
By Maureen Dowd

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Republicans are blaming Donald Trump for anointing wacky candidates and then using campaign rallies to promote his upcoming presidential announcement. Republican lawmakers privately say those self-indulgent rallies cost them Senate and House seats because many normal Republicans and independents have had their fill of Trump and his crazy train.

The third time should be the charm. Since winning in 2016, Trump helped Republicans lose the House in 2018 and lose the White House and the Senate after the 2020 elections. Now he seems to have rescued Democrats from the traditional midterm shellacking — Republicans are barely within reach of a House majority and are watching their chance of controlling the Senate slip away. Trump has been poison for his party. ...

The moment feels reminiscent of Jan. 6 and its immediate aftermath. Republicans go crazy on Trump, say “enough is enough,” as Lindsey Graham did at that juncture, and act as if they’re ready to toss him aside. But it didn’t take long for “my Kevin,” as Trump called McCarthy, to make a groveling pilgrimage to Mar-a-Lago.

Republicans refused to convict Trump on impeachment charges and ban him from running for public office. Now they’re living with the consequences. It’s not hard to imagine that this revolt against the revolting Trump will die down in a few days and they’ll all be back behind this person that they blame for their current convulsions.

“If blackmailing Ukraine, inciting a riot, trying to overturn the election, hoarding classified documents, using overtly racist language for seven years, including at Glenn Youngkin today, was not enough to cause you to walk away from Donald Trump,” the political analyst Ron Brownstein said on CNN Friday, what makes people think Trump is toast now?

[sop]

1. I'll bet the naked emperor still has a lot of dirt on many in the GOP he'll use to create chaos.

[FlyingPiggy]

2. I bet you're absolutely right on that. Lindsey Graham must be shitting bricks right about now

[Wounded Bear]

3. Kinda hope so...

[onecaliberal]

4. He committed espionage, and treason.