Trumpster Diving

  • “Trump thinks he can steal the (2024) election. … Across the country, Republicans are pushing out professional election administrators and replacing them with Trumpist conspiracy theorists who say the 2020 election was stolen.”—Paul Waldman, WaPo.
  • “Barring health problems, (Trump) is running.”—Robert Kagan, senior fellow at the Brookings Institute.
  • Herschel Walker, the black Georgia football icon, canceled his Texas fund-raiser over the presence of a swastika, but didn’t actually condemn it. Now we know where he draws the line–sort of. Too bad one wasn’t drawn over his fawning, House Negro fealty to Donald Trump.
  • There was a time when the Republican Party stood for conservative principles. From fiscal restraint to personal responsibility. Now its “principles” are reduced to two priorities: reclaiming power and bowing and scraping to Donald Trump.
  • Speaking of Trump’s impact—and self-serving, spineless GOPster fealty—the Senate’s most senior Republican, Iowa’s 88-year-old Chuck Grassley, has accepted the endorsement of Trump and will run for an 8th term. “I was born at night, but not last night,” said Grassley. “So if I didn’t accept the endorsement of a person who has 91 percent of the Republicans in Iowa, I wouldn’t be too smart. I’m smart enough to accept that endorsement.” This is how the most senior senator wants his final run, if not legacy, to be remembered? He was endorsed by the worst American president ever. Not smart.
  • The Renew America Movement is hoping to restore a common-sense coalition in Washington instead of risking the wrath of Trump and his GOPster acolytes if they take back leadership in America. To that end, RAM, which includes former Department of Homeland Security (during the Trump Administration) official Miles Taylor and former Republican governor of New Jersey Christine Todd Whitman, will be releasing a slate of nearly two dozen Democratic, independent and Republican candidates worth supporting in 2022. As for 2024: Liz Cheney for president?
  • Too often white evangelicals have looked to strongman political saviors to restore their dominant place.”—David Brooks, NYT.

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