Watching Morning Joe now and smiled.
Claire McCaskill decorated her kitchen cabinets with red, white, and blue bunting. She is great.
She made a good point. Trump won Missouri by 19 points. He is down 10 points. Her thoughts are that this sets up Trump losing states he won by less than 5.
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I'm a mess today and my brains are scrambled. Thank you
America's conservative party needs to be fumigated and get new leadership, but understandable that it's not a happy time for him.
As for why he should not just be taken at his word? He was working hard to elect Republicans and empower their big donors right up through 2016, although the Republican Party had already long been taken over by Big Money corruption and social and religious extremists. He played a significant part in the party's decades of betrayal of its own voters, its role in creating and serving our new centimillionaire and billionaire classes, its increasing use of election theft to win, and its growing authoritarianism -- right up to the point that it was actually self destructing and had become actively dangerous under the weight of the corruption and white power insanity that lead to Trump.
Then he left.
Yes, his voice of moderate conservatism is sane, responsible and valuable now, but of course we also take him not just at his word but at his history and actions. Those tell me he wants the Republican Party to retain and grow "sustainable" power under more competent, stable leadership. I'm sure that's what most of the party's enormously powerful donors want also.
collaborating with extremism, though. A lot of them were apparently trying to wait it out, imagining/hoping things would eventually return to normal, but their party just continued devolving into something they once couldn't have imagined.
However, it doesn't seem to have been the continued shift of power and wealth away from the people to the few that finally forced the ones I read about to leave. And that's become extreme.
