Trump is the culture war. The culture war is the base. Now what?

[DonViejo]

By Philip Bump
Feb. 16, 2021 at 9:31 a.m. EST

Donald Trump continues to be the alpha and the omega of Republican politics.

Days after the former president was acquitted in his second impeachment trial, Republican elected officials and Republican voters are scrambling to show their fealty to him largely by demonstrating their hostility to those who chose to hold him accountable for the storming of the Capitol last month. Twelve members of Congress who supported either the impeachment or the conviction of Trump on the charge that he incited the attempted insurrection have been censured by the party, with others — notably Sen. Mitt Romney (Utah), once the party’s presidential nominee — likely to be added to the list.

“We did not send him there to vote his conscience,” Dave Bell, chairman of the Republican Party in Washington County, Pa., said of Sen. Patrick J. Toomey (R-Pa.). “We did not send him there to ‘do the right thing,’ or whatever he said he was doing. We sent him there to represent us.”

Rep. Adam Kinzinger (R-Ill.), who voted to impeach Trump, got a letter from members of his family declaring that he had “embarrassed the Kinzinger family name.” Meanwhile, in Florida, Trump was greeted on a street lined with supporters as he returned from a round of golf on Sunday, a display bolstered by far-right media outlets.

Just to clarify for any historians stumbling across this article: Trump is the one who repeatedly misled his supporters about the results of the 2020 presidential election and encouraged them to come to Washington on Jan. 6, ensuring that the violence at the Capitol could occur. Kinzinger, Romney and Toomey were those who suggested that was something to be criticized.

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/politics/2021/02/16/trump-is-culture-war-culture-war-is-base-now-what/

[ooky]

1. Cut off the head of the snake

would be a good place to start. Prosecute him for his crimes!