…from the Washington Post’s The Fix…
Earlier this month, President Trump gave lawmakers a week’s notice that he was going to announce new steel and aluminum tariffs that Republican leaders vehemently opposed. Congress, which the Constitution gives power over tariffs, could have tried to stop the move. But congressional Republicans did nothing.
Now Trump is openly attacking special counsel Robert S. Mueller III’s investigation in a way that suggests he may be trying (again) to fire Mueller. And congressional Republicans are apparently doing nothing.
The events of recent weeks have driven home what has been evident for some time — perhaps as far back as the 2016 presidential campaign — that Trump has neutered the Republican Party. Party leaders are afraid to do anything to cross him because he’s much stronger with the party’s base and has no loyalty to them. The past few weeks have demonstrated the potency of an unrestricted Trump and a party leadership that has basically no will to try to check his impulses….
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…..Trump has backed them into a corner, rendering them subservient to him and his unpredictable whims…
Note….
This is of their OWN making….
From the nomination Trump has fought to first pimp the party after adoption for his run for the Presidency to winning the p[arties supporters and then having the lawmakers, most, fall in line behind him…
In the end?
They will suffer for their cowardice….
They are all Trump Republicans now.
Let the chips fall where they may.
If you know anything about the rise of totalitarian demagogues, this is beginning of the scary part. Such a leader wants to replace as much of the traditional establishment as possible with a purely personal base, and traditional limits or structures with a personal (or Movement) fiat.
We can only hope that there’s enough of a resistance left to continue the Special Counsel’s work, support, powers and financing.
Yes DSD
Trump’s action mirror a demigods’
The GOPer’s don’t care
He’s THEIR GUY
Yes but he’s not a “real” Republican.
You’ve told us so.
Those Republicans are dumb as Hell aren’t they?Standing by a guy who isn’t even one of them?
Yea
AGAIN
My view is Donald Trump
Has no coherant ideology
He goes with whoever is on HIS SIDE
We just keep doing this over and over?
Retiring Sen. Bob Corker says that people he talks with,Presumably Republicans , no longer care about issues.
All they want to know is are you “with” Trump or not.
If that’s not full “cult” behavior I don’t know what is.
Cult 45
According to Republicans it works every time.
Re: Corker….
“The president is, as you know — you’ve seen his numbers among the Republican base — it’s very strong. It’s more than strong, it’s tribal in nature. People who tell me, who are out on trail, say, look, people don’t ask about issues anymore. They don’t care about issues. They want to know if you’re with Trump or not.”
— Sen. Bob Corker (R-TN), in an interview with the Washington Examiner.
That’s completely accurate unfortunately.
Tribalism to the max.
It is also true that on the other side, people just want to know if you are “against Trump” or not.
No. It’s not.
Every single Democrat campaign ad from Governor down to County Assessor was about “Trump” and how the other Democrat they were running against was secretly “like Trump” and how only that Assessor candidate, Sewage Commissioner candidate, whatever, can “stand up to Trump.”
No,what I took from Corkers comment was that the so called Republican “base” which was formerly interested in what was often referred to as “conservative” issues no longer cares about any of that and are just fixated on Trump the person.In other words they are behaving in a cultish manner.
Of course a lot of people are “against Trump.”They oppose him on a broad range of issues including:his tax cuts,mostly directed at the wealthy, his attempts to repeal Obamacare without anything to take its lace, his Russian connections, his immigrationstands and many more.Whats odd about that?
None of those people are fixated on a personality.
True THAT Jack….
It’s two sides of the same coin. It’s more obvious when you are not a part of either “side.”
And let’s remember how SNL did sketches about Obama’s base along the same line.
All I see is a Republican desperately trying to in some weird manner to defend the Trump cult by engaging in a false equivalency.
What’s amusing is that you yourself have claimed that Trump isn’t representative of the Republican Party.
No one claimed that about Obama.He was embraced as a true Democrat.Why Wouldnt Democrats have supported him?
Perhaps you’ve changed your position.
Do you now think Trump is representative of the Republican Party?
You live in South Carolina and I live in Cook County. I think we both see things that back up my point about the two sides of the same coin.
Not my version of the Republican Party. The jury is still out on whether my version has a future or not.
Right now, all that matters to many is that the liberals and media dislike him. I have larger needs.
I will also say, based on something I just posted over on another site, that when things change in politics they can change quickly.
“I just know that on a smaller scale, back just maybe 8 months ago, the Illinois GOP sure looked like a fully owned entity of Bruce Rauner. He controlled the party in every way, shape, and form.
Last night, 48% of the primary voters rejected him (and a lot of others, like me, thought strategically and held their nose to vote for him) A stronger opponent, or someone who gotten an earlier start, or who had just a bit more money, would have knocked him off for sure.”
Ok
That fair enough.
In my view what seems to be hurting your side now is the simple fact that far too many Republican officeholders, for self preservation I presume, are unwillingness no to take on the cult leader.
That cult leader is digging himself DEEPER in the hole that I think will cause him his job……
Yes,they can.
Indeed, we have no better example than Donald Trump who .essentially in a few months time ,went from fringe candidate to the Republican nominee and a few months later, the elected President Of the United Sates.
Rauner almost losing to that nutbag just shows how even in Illinois the party is further embracing Trumpism.
Is it “change”? Sure. But not the direction you want it to go.
Trump just Tweeted his most disgraceful pro-Putin statement yet and managed to attack the Bushes, Clintons, and Obamas in the process.
Par for the course.
And the Trump cultists,ie the “base” of the Republican Party cheer him on.
If Trump says it,why it must be right.
…via twitter….
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
…..They can help solve problems with North Korea, Syria, Ukraine, ISIS, Iran and even the coming Arms Race. Bush tried to get along, but didn’t have the “smarts.” Obama and Clinton tried, but didn’t have the energy or chemistry (remember RESET). PEACE THROUGH STRENGTH!
Donald J. Trump
@realDonaldTrump
I called President Putin of Russia to congratulate him on his election victory (in past, Obama called him also). The Fake News Media is crazed because they wanted me to excoriate him. They are wrong! Getting along with Russia (and others) is a good thing, not a bad thing…….
I saw at Trump’s approval among white Evangelicals ROSE since the Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal stories came to light.
FTom 72 to 78%
What the hell is wrong with these hypocritical cretins?
The male “evangelicals” are probably envious.
Ives is less “Trumpism”, more “Cruzism”
The point is semi-valid, but it is also the case that there parallels behind Rauner (“an adopted Republican” if you will) and his takeover of the party after an initial election as an outsider and how quickly it fell upon him once the people who elected him and who bought all in to his leadership felt “betrayed.”