Take your junk science hysteria laden rant and stu
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Posted On: 11/23/2022 11:30:24 PM
Take your junk science hysteria laden rant and stuff it.
See if you can comprehend any of the following. You Trumpanzees stand for absof'inglutely nothing.
Have Republicans Learned Anything From Their Dance With the Donald?
Nov. 17, 2022
Credit...Ben Wiseman
By Frank Bruni
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/17/opinion/tr...pe=Article
Donald Trump is done. I keep hearing and reading that, and I have no reason to disbelieve it: Announcing his 2024 candidacy at Mar-a-Loco on Tuesday night, he was less a phoenix rising than a balloon deflating. I could almost hear the helium seeping out of him.
But while that should have been music to my ears, it wasn’t. The prompt for his sudden abandonment by many Republicans is all wrong. They’re rejecting him not because of the countless ways in which he inflamed and imperiled this country, not because he’s an offense to decency and an enemy of democracy, not because he degrades almost anything and anyone he brushes up against. They’re just peeved at his losing streak.
It’s about math, not morals, and for that reason, there will quite possibly be a next Trump and a Trump after that. I don’t mean Ivanka, his fair-weather fair-haired daughter, whose self-absorption is self-evident in the studied distance she now keeps from dotty old Dad. I don’t mean Don Jr., who has her gift for grift but not her guile.
I mean someone whose case to Republicans is about the attainment of power, not the exercise of principle, which the party torched in its dance with the Donald. As best as I can tell, it hasn’t learned any lesson from that. It’s just trying to plot a path out of the ashes.
Look at and listen to the language of the Republicans who are making and urging a turn from Trump.
“He’s an impediment at this point,” Andy Reilly, a member of the Republican National Committee in Pennsylvania, said in an article in The Times by Lisa Lerer and Reid Epstein. An impediment, mind you — not an offense, not an outrage, not a menace. At this point. A month ago, in the same noxious guise, Trump was wholly acceptable. And if Mehmet Oz, Blake Masters, Don Bolduc and a few others had won on Nov. 8, he still would be.
In an article in Bloomberg by Flavia Krause-Jackson, a billionaire donor opined that “the Republican Party is ready to move on” from someone he called “a three-time loser,” apparently referring to the 2018, 2020 and 2022 elections. What about moving on from a fabulist, fraud and would-be autocrat? Aren’t those the more damning descriptors? Obviously not, because they fit Trump before his serial defeats and Republicans rallied merrily around him nonetheless.
“I think he’s the only Republican who could lose,” Mick Mulvaney, Trump’s former chief of staff, told Anderson Cooper on CNN, saying that the party had better candidates for 2024. And The Wall Street Journal editorial board implored Republicans who are sizing up 2024 presidential prospects not to nominate “the man most likely to produce a G.O.P. loss and total power for the progressive left.” Trump’s recent track record and questionable shot at victory are the disqualifying issues, when so much else should be.
There’s no reckoning at hand, none of the necessary grappling with all that Republicans condoned under Trump, with how perilously close to the edge they pushed America. There’s no reclamation of rectitude by a party that once bragged of a monopoly on it.
There’s just a new calculation. Republicans talk of Trump as if he’s a stock that has lost value. But the values that they betrayed in their surrender to him? They ignore or gloss over that part.
Through two impeachments, countless examples of incompetence, the profoundly destructive claim that election results couldn’t be believed and the deadly violence of Jan. 6, Trump retained the party’s support because its leaders ran the numbers and deduced that the price of shunning him was too high. In the wake of the midterms, not shunning him seems to be the costlier play.
The party hasn’t changed any more than he has. Only the numbers are different.
See if you can comprehend any of the following. You Trumpanzees stand for absof'inglutely nothing.
Have Republicans Learned Anything From Their Dance With the Donald?
Nov. 17, 2022
Credit...Ben Wiseman
By Frank Bruni
https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/17/opinion/tr...pe=Article
Donald Trump is done. I keep hearing and reading that, and I have no reason to disbelieve it: Announcing his 2024 candidacy at Mar-a-Loco on Tuesday night, he was less a phoenix rising than a balloon deflating. I could almost hear the helium seeping out of him.
But while that should have been music to my ears, it wasn’t. The prompt for his sudden abandonment by many Republicans is all wrong. They’re rejecting him not because of the countless ways in which he inflamed and imperiled this country, not because he’s an offense to decency and an enemy of democracy, not because he degrades almost anything and anyone he brushes up against. They’re just peeved at his losing streak.
It’s about math, not morals, and for that reason, there will quite possibly be a next Trump and a Trump after that. I don’t mean Ivanka, his fair-weather fair-haired daughter, whose self-absorption is self-evident in the studied distance she now keeps from dotty old Dad. I don’t mean Don Jr., who has her gift for grift but not her guile.
I mean someone whose case to Republicans is about the attainment of power, not the exercise of principle, which the party torched in its dance with the Donald. As best as I can tell, it hasn’t learned any lesson from that. It’s just trying to plot a path out of the ashes.
Look at and listen to the language of the Republicans who are making and urging a turn from Trump.
“He’s an impediment at this point,” Andy Reilly, a member of the Republican National Committee in Pennsylvania, said in an article in The Times by Lisa Lerer and Reid Epstein. An impediment, mind you — not an offense, not an outrage, not a menace. At this point. A month ago, in the same noxious guise, Trump was wholly acceptable. And if Mehmet Oz, Blake Masters, Don Bolduc and a few others had won on Nov. 8, he still would be.
In an article in Bloomberg by Flavia Krause-Jackson, a billionaire donor opined that “the Republican Party is ready to move on” from someone he called “a three-time loser,” apparently referring to the 2018, 2020 and 2022 elections. What about moving on from a fabulist, fraud and would-be autocrat? Aren’t those the more damning descriptors? Obviously not, because they fit Trump before his serial defeats and Republicans rallied merrily around him nonetheless.
“I think he’s the only Republican who could lose,” Mick Mulvaney, Trump’s former chief of staff, told Anderson Cooper on CNN, saying that the party had better candidates for 2024. And The Wall Street Journal editorial board implored Republicans who are sizing up 2024 presidential prospects not to nominate “the man most likely to produce a G.O.P. loss and total power for the progressive left.” Trump’s recent track record and questionable shot at victory are the disqualifying issues, when so much else should be.
There’s no reckoning at hand, none of the necessary grappling with all that Republicans condoned under Trump, with how perilously close to the edge they pushed America. There’s no reclamation of rectitude by a party that once bragged of a monopoly on it.
There’s just a new calculation. Republicans talk of Trump as if he’s a stock that has lost value. But the values that they betrayed in their surrender to him? They ignore or gloss over that part.
Through two impeachments, countless examples of incompetence, the profoundly destructive claim that election results couldn’t be believed and the deadly violence of Jan. 6, Trump retained the party’s support because its leaders ran the numbers and deduced that the price of shunning him was too high. In the wake of the midterms, not shunning him seems to be the costlier play.
The party hasn’t changed any more than he has. Only the numbers are different.
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