No Republican Can Survive the Trump Cult of Personality - Jamelle Bouie

[In It to Win It]

Trump right now is the weakest he's ever been with the public! Democrats lead the generic ballot! Inflation is high! Gas is expensive! The Iran war is a quagmire and things are likely to get worse before they get better!

And yet: Bill Cassidy just lost his Senate primary for voting to convict Trump after January 6th. Thomas Massie just lost his for being a small thorn in the president's side.

Trump still has total control of the Republican Party and he is using that to insulate himself from accountability.

[AZJonnie]

1. I mostly blame the dipshit cultists, and the propagandists who lead them by their credulous noses

Honestly starting to think there's just too many stupid people for this two party system to work anymore. We need to switch to a parliamentary system where a deluded minority cannot decide basically everything for the whole country. We need dark/big money out of politics, with public funding of elections. And voting needs to be declared a RIGHT for all citizens. With mail-in voting for everyone.

[B.See]

2. The reason why Trump still has

the full endorsement and support of his MAGAT devotees, in spite of all that he's done and WILL do TO them, is because he hates the people they hate: "the Blacks," brown immigrants, Muslims, "the gays," liberals, and women in general... "the woke mob."

They're fine with the self-enrichment, the nepotism, the self dealing of the filthy rich, while they, in turn, 'fast,' pay through the nose, do without, and catch the pox—so long as they're 'owning the libs.'

And I, in turn, take solace in knowing they're suffering too.

[Ars Longa]

3. The cultists still have enough punch, to get Trumpies

over the bar in low to mid (R) turnout primaries....