MAUREEN DOWD The Emperor of Chaos Has No Clothes

[Demovictory9]

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Republicans are blaming Donald Trump for anointing wacky candidates and then using campaign rallies to promote his upcoming presidential announcement. Republican lawmakers privately say those self-indulgent rallies cost them Senate and House seats because many normal Republicans and independents have had their fill of Trump and his crazy train.

The third time should be the charm. Since winning in 2016, Trump helped Republicans lose the House in 2018 and lose the White House and the Senate after the 2020 elections. Now he seems to have rescued Democrats from the traditional midterm shellacking — Republicans are barely within reach of a House majority and are watching their chance of controlling the Senate slip away. Trump has been poison for his party.

Polls showed that even many people unhappy with Joe Biden voted Democratic, a sign that Trump fatigue has finally set in. It’s so bad, the Murdoch empire has turned on its former fair-haired boy.


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The moment feels reminiscent of Jan. 6 and its immediate aftermath. Republicans go crazy on Trump, say “enough is enough,” as Lindsey Graham did at that juncture, and act as if they’re ready to toss him aside. But it didn’t take long for “my Kevin,” as Trump called McCarthy, to make a groveling pilgrimage to Mar-a-Lago.


https://www.nytimes.com/2022/11/12/opinion/trump-election-midterm.html

[murielm99]

1. We've always known that he has no clothes.

Dowd should stay home and sleep in. She is a waste of time.

[dem4decades]

16. Agree, why does she still get any press?

[Tetrachloride]

2. There's more hungry young Democrats than Republicans

i believe the avalanche is primed to unleash against both Trump and Republicans in general.

[mulucha]

3. Dowd thinks she can undo the damage she caused

In past elections.
Nah. Thank God she's irrelevant now.

[malaise]

7. THIS

the truth

[malaise]

8. THIS

the truth

[SallyHemmings]

9. She still has a column?

[Tommymac]

14. You speak Truth. Dowd has blood on her hands.

She makes me ill.

[NNadir]

17. I'll add a "This."

[RockCreek]

20. And an AMEN to all above! n/t

[Sucha NastyWoman]

4. Most of those blaming him sure supported and defended him up until recently

They share the blame along with him - they were complicit. Very few spoke up before now.

[Dustlawyer]

12. It took them until now to dump him, when he has little leverage.

Trump could not have done it without them. Now they will ride the Desantis crazy train and do it all over again. We will once again hear stories of what they say privately and anonymously while publicly supporting any hateful, foul, crap he says. Wash, rinse, repeat!

[betsuni]

5. She's an idiot.

[Judi Lynn]

6. It was expressed artistically several years ago...

[SergeStorms]

10. Those were made before he "won" the presidency.

I wonder what became of them? They certainly were grotesque.

[gab13by13]

11. You know what pisses me off?

the statement that polls showed that even many people unhappy with Joe Biden voted Democratic. Those bogus polls that created a bogus narrative. President Biden did absolutely nothing to make people unhappy with him, he is the greatest president in my lifetime.

WTAF did President Biden actually do to make people unhappy with him. I will wait.

[ITAL]

23. Exit polls said the same thing though

Early on election night when they mostly just had those versus actual votes, the signs were pretty ominous for Biden.

[Martin Eden]

13. In 2016 Trump was the same abominable creature he is now

Rupert Murdoch and others want to dump him now that he no longer serves their interests, but may they rot in hell for elevating the orange atrocity to the White House in the first place.

[SouthernDem4ever]

21. +1

Very True

[The Jungle 1]

15. How about we don't destroy what promises to be an entertaining war.

The up coming battle between fat orange boy and DeSuckme is going to be epic.
We need to stay out of the way.

Think about it a minute, fat orange boy gets up in the morning and spends at least an hour on his make up and hair.
I am feeling spiffy if I drag a comb through my hair. Mostly I do a shower comb.

[Historic NY]

18. Its not as if no one knew this, look at his personal life and business....

Hell he'd might as well said he had a legal career from all his divorces, lawsuits, countersuits and bankruptcies

[Lonestarblue]

19. I refuse to read any of Dowd's columns. She was vicious toward both Clintons and especially

Hillary.

[BlueMTexpat]

22. This person has NO

credibility with me!