To everyone saying “It’s not Republicanism; it’s Trumpism”, it’s a wash. Republican legislators have swallowed tRUmp whole. He is them. They are him.
What tRUmp embodies is the stinking shantytown on a swamp that Republicans were headed for all along.
Their crass system of discrimination had been built, camouflaged by the veneer of Reaganomics. All tRUmp did was step onto the existing escalator.
They needed him so they could get a MASSIVE tax cut for their billionaires. He was ready to get it for them. The whole tragic tableaux is a python versus alligator situation.
They ate him up, and he ate his way out. They will be considered liars for a generation.
The economic rape was expected from Republicans. What I didn’t expect was the kowtowing to the Russians. As a child of the Cold War, I just could not square Republicanism and cozying up to the Russians. Well...
It turned out that they weren’t really cozying up to Russians; they were cozying up to money. And that is as Republican as deep fried butter.
To Republicans, Russia after the fall of the Soviet Union was the Wild Wild East: there were stage coaches to be robbed.
Republicans. They tried to be Ivan the Kid in the Wild Wild East. They were not well received.
They did not care. There was money to be hoarded. They could impress the Russians, they were smart. They remain in charge in the Senate and the Executive Branch. They have piled reactionary judges on our doorstep. The Russians are laughing at us.
And tRUmp does jack squat. Republicans don’t seem to have a problem with that today. Republicans WOULD have had a MAJOR PROBLEM with that in 1974.
All the actual Republicans I’ve known in my life were clear eyed and disillusioned simultaneously. The one thing they hated more than anything else was a turncoat.
Donald Trump is a turncoat.
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