I am impressed by the amount of shock and outrage over Trump's press conference. 1) This was obviously what would happen. 2) Republican voters don't care and won't care. 3) This is now the defined position of the Republican Party. 4) There is no non-Trump Republican Party.
The fact that the Republican Party has embraced anti-democracy based on white supremacy, playing games with court, and international alliances with other right-wing white supremacist leaders isn't the future. It's now. And the past since 2016.
You can be shocked I guess that things have gotten this bad, but this sort of behavior is why Trump ran away with the Republican primary. Republican voters would far rather disfranchise black voters and invite election tampering than lose power.
What is clear is that lots of journalists and plenty of liberals and self-styled centrists and the few anti-Trump conservatives all are really struggling with the reality that their precious norms and institutions are now meaningless. They won't save you.
