George W. Bush and Paul Ryan looking "reasonable" tells us we are doing something wrong. [View all]
We're focusing way too exclusively on Trump, the bad fruit, instead of focusing on the bad tree, Republicanism. We're making Trump a lightning rod, and that lighting rod is protecting the Republican house, no pun.
Consider what happens now. Trump, the nutty clown, does or tweets something ridiculously terrible. What happens? The news media starts telling us how Trump did something that his fellow Republicans are criticizing him for. The Dems, because they are all jumping on Trump's case at the same time, are ignored. It's not news.
Poor, "beleaguered" (straight-faced lying, faux-intellectual jerk) Paul Ryan gets to appear reasonable. "Artist and senior statesman," George W. Bush looks reasonable, despite the fact that he should be spending the entire rest of his life averting his eyes in shame and begging forgiveness. Dubya and Paul Ryan shouldn't be allowed to be the good guys. They should be taking heat.
We need to spread the heat.
When Trump does some crazy clown thing, instead of jumping right on Trump, maybe Schumer jumps on Mitch McConnell instead. Attack Trump's nutty clown thing, sure, but do it in a way that McConnell gets heat. "I can't believe, Mitch McConnell can stand meekly by like the rest of the Republicans in Congress seem to while Trump lets Putin sneer and laugh at our great country." That kind of thing.
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