It’s probably too late for the sane Republicans.
They should have taken a stand together long ago. Now, extinction is approaching.
John Cornyn was the most recent death. Bill Cassidy preceded him. There have been others, all victims of the same disease that has infiltrated the GOP, worked its way throughout the party, melting spines and disappearing consciences, slowly killing it.
In a way, it is poetic justice. A party core that prided itself on the usage of propaganda and racism to convince working Americans to vote for billionaires’ interests has been undone by the same tactics utilized by a billionaire.
Donald Trump, a con man of no real talent but unending shamelessness, now completely owns the Grand Ol’ Party. Lock stock and barrel. (Until he can somehow bankrupt it.)
Cornyn’s loss on Tuesday in Texas was the final bell in this fight. Cornyn, a 23-year veteran in the Senate and one of the Republican Party’s top fundraisers, was beaten by a human garbage stain. Only because that human garbage stain was endorsed by Trump.
Ken Paxton, the former Texas attorney general, defeated Cornyn, but only after overcoming multiple sex scandals, multiple indictments, an impeachment by the Republican-led Texas House of Representatives, his own staff turning him into the FBI, his wife leaving him over his affair with a staffer, among other things, and him generally being a gigantic jackass.
That guy beat a respected, competent Republican who had served for 23 years and raised millions of dollars for his fellow Republicans.
Because Trump endorsed him.
That’s the end, y’all. Say goodnight.
Because this isn’t happening due to Trump’s raging popularity and overwhelming power over the masses. It’s happening because the opposite is true.
People are fleeing the Republican Party and leaving behind only the devoted and demented MAGA base. That’s why Trump is having this success. That’s why his “enemies” are falling.
Don’t take my word for it. Look at the numbers.
That primary between Paxton and Cornyn—one of the most expensive and well publicized in decades in Texas—had one of the worst turnouts in decades. Like elsewhere across the country, Democratic turnout in Texas was way up. Republican turnout was way down.
That’s also the reason Cassidy lost in Louisiana. Look at the numbers. Compare them to previous election totals. The races received a fraction of the usual votes.
Same thing in Alabama a couple of weeks ago. Democrats double turnout. Republican turnout, even with numerous compelling races at the top of the ticket, dropped like a rock.
That’s because Donald Trump is a cancer. An incurable, ever-advancing disease that rots everything it touches.
He has done it his entire existence. He sucks the life out of everyone and everything around him to benefit himself and then leaves the destruction and devastation in his wake, typically loping off to create his next nightmare as he blames someone else for it all.
The same thing happened in his first term, which ended with Republicans losing everything and him leading a coup attempt.
For the briefest of moments, as we all watched in horror as raving psychopaths smashed windows and rammed through doors at our Capitol Building, it seemed as if a majority of Republicans would take a stand against the insanity. Some dared to criticize Trump. Some had the “courage” to actually acknowledge the reality before them.
Then it all fizzled away in the Fox News-ification of reality that has become all too common now—that part of “news” in which rightwing propaganda artists tell easily scared white people stuff that they want to believe so they never have to admit that they were wrong to believe the New York billionaire/reality TV host was the answer to the working man’s prayers.
The coup became “a tourist visit.” The cop beaters became “peaceful protestors.” Today, there is a $1.8 billion fund to pay them restitution for us having the nerve to imprison them for breaking into the Capitol to stop the counting of votes and hang the vice president.
The nerve of … us, apparently.
But once again, the nation has slowly caught onto the Trump con game. His approval ratings are hovering around 30 percent. Midterm projections show Republicans losing in an absolute bloodbath. And now, with his personal vendettas playing out against otherwise loyal Republican senators, Democrats taking control of the Senate—something that hardly anyone thought possible a year ago—is likely. And all of that is despite the outright gerrymandering cheating that Trump is actively pushing.
Yet, so many Republicans are still refusing to take a stand and simply acknowledge the reality of things. So many are still so scared of saying the obvious—that the tariffs were dumb and crushed American farmers and businesses, that the war in Iran is driving fuel and energy costs through the roof, that kicking millions off their healthcare plans to give tax breaks to billionaires was really stupid, that grocery prices are still going up thanks to Trump’s policies, that the war in Ukraine is still going despite that “on day one” promise, that the Epstein victims are still real people and that we all see the personal corruption happening right before our eyes each day.
Honestly, it’s probably too late for truth to save them now. At any point over the last decade they could have taken a stand against the corruption and stupidity and obvious lies and general nastiness, but they didn’t. They cowered in fear.
And that cowardice is what’s killing them now.
