GOP: Its time to get off the Trump train. You have nothing left to lose
GOP: It’s time to get off the Trump train. You have nothing left to lose
SARAH KENDZIOR
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The crazy train is the Trump Train, and it runs down its own passengers. A politician may think he is riding the train, only to find out the train’s been riding over him, pounding him into political roadkill. Survivors of the Trump Train stumble around like scared animals who don’t understand how they mistook the highway for home. Just ask Chris Christie, the first major Republican to endorse Mr. Trump, and now the first to condemn him, as he pitifully affirmed this week the corruption of the administration he was not asked to join.
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Many who boarded the Trump Train likely did so suspecting the conductor might get booted, leaving them with Mike Pence, a right-wing extremist who nonetheless is a more standard Republican official. Opportunists are fighting to get vile policies – like stripping Americans of their social safety net – passed before Mr. Trump is potentially booted while simultaneously avoiding the contamination of his regime.
But this endeavour is impossible. As GOP strategist and “Never Trumper” Rick Wilson says, “Everything Trump touches dies.” This includes the ability of politicians to escape unscathed. If it is only one’s career prospects and integrity that are lost, the politician is lucky. At this point, association with the Trump administration means you may be tangentially linked to a massive international criminal operation. It means you may be in proximity to treason, as some have perceived from the released tapes of Speaker Paul Ryan and others speculating that Mr. Trump might be paid by Russian President Vladimir Putin.
The road to impeachment is the road to self-immolation, which is why Republicans at Russian interference hearings behave as if intelligence officials – like former CIA chief John Brennan – are hostile witnesses instead of patriots providing valuable testimony, and treat leaks as greater affronts than the horrifying revelations the leaks contain.
National security should never be a partisan issue. The gutlessness of the Republican Party at this critical juncture hurts all Americans, including themselves. To depart the Trump Train now may be to leave tarnished by scandal, but it is the only way to keep the country from going off the rails.
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