GOP Establishment Shrugs As Democracy Crumbles Under Trump

[DonViejo]

Steven Rosenfeld

GOP Establishment Shrugs As Democracy Crumbles Under Trump

May 1, 2017 3:29 pm

It’s become the new abnormal.

Trump’s decrees, accusations, posturing. His transparent lies, threats, reversals. Then comes the clean-up crew, the White House propagandists, pretending he’s serious.

Half the media plays it straight, according Trump a gravitas unsupported by facts or details. Others, from TV comedians to seasoned political columnists, cannot. Whatever being presidential or serious governing is, they know that’s not Trump.

One-hundred days in, what are we to make of this confusing mess? So many conceits and balls are in the air. We know he likes it that way. Ending Obamacare. Giving the super rich a trillion-dollar tax cut. Building the wall with Mexico. Reviving king coal.

America has become a new dystopia. People see what they want to see, hear what they want to hear, believe what they want to believe. The latest spin from Establishment Republicans—who abhor Trump—is he is a bumbling but harmless fool. They believe they have his number—he’s easily provoked, pushed, manipulated. In the end, all bark and no bite.

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[democratisphere]

1. redumbliCONs are against democracy and favor authoritarian regimes

including our own.

[Achilleaze]

2. Proving beyond a shadow of a doubt that the phony flag lapel pins they wear

are all for pretend show. The republicans have gone AWOL on America, and not lifted a finger to defend our democracy from the Acts of War* being perpetrated against the USA by the evil empire** of russia and their darkside Assassin-in-Chief, Pooty Poot.

* per dick cheney
** per ronald reagan

[BSdetect]

3. A few hundred years ago they would all be tarred and feathered.

[Eyeball_Kid]

4. Hmm. I heard rumor that the Earth spins on its axis.

If the GOP could only maintain its power by refuting the laws of physics, they'd tell us that the sun revolves around the earth. They're a craven lot. The whole of them.

They knew about Russia's hijacking the election and they cooperated because Putin was helping them win. Now they're paying the price, but it's a slow climb to reach conventional wisdom.

Some of us knew that the GOP was criminal for a long time. It will take many more months for the GOP to get the blame for destroying the country. The MSM is very slow to recognize the truth. There's just too much corporate money invested in the myth of competence within the GOP.