Your Friday Tweetstorm (rebooted).
Trumpers are mounting a lot of desperate defenses of the week’s bad news, with lots of shouting at the Never Trumpers (because we don’t matter) and anxiety about who wil be left on “the day after."
This is because they know we’re right. /1
Trumpers are mounting a lot of desperate defenses of the week’s bad news, with lots of shouting at the Never Trumpers (because we don’t matter) and anxiety about who wil be left on “the day after."
This is because they know we’re right. /1
There’s no more question about “who will be proved right.” The Never Trumpers were right, and our worst fears are playing out right now. Yes, the GOP got its judges. And no, the economy hasn’t collapsed. (yet). The rest is happening as we speak. /2
By this I mean continuing attacks on our constitutional norms by the WH itself; a war on our IC and LE communities; the attempt to politicize the DoJ; even the shredding of the AG. (Karmic payback for Sessions, but wow.) /3
Executive depts are functioning by default, aides are managing up (to put it gently) as they try to whack each other out; policies diverge between sensible stuff the bureaucrats can do, and exec orders that vary from stupid to cruel, and meant mostly as theater for the rubes. /4
In foreign policy, the Russians are rightfully laughing at us; the Chinese and North Koreans have a free pass; we're in a tariff war with our own allies; NATO has been dangerously undermined, Canada is bewildered and angry. Immense damage to US strength. /5
The GOP as a party, meanwhile, is now a cult of personality, bereft of conservative ideals, except for one: That "conservatism" must be carried forward by unelected judges, which is totally not a conservative ideal. Veteran GOPers see what's coming - and have wisely retired. /6
All that's left to see is just how badly the Trumpers got it wrong. It's no longer a matter, for example, of *whether* collusion with Russia happened, it's *how far it went and who knew*. Even if there were no more revelations, this alone is shocking. But there will be more. /7
Elsewhere, POTUS is implicated in two felonies (at least two, for now) involving payouts to a porn star - forcing every GOPer who ever blathered about "character" and "integrity" and "you can't trust a man if his wife can't" to eat those words and swallow them dry, forever. /8
It was unwise for Trump loyalists to double, triple, quadruple, and quintuple down on all this. They were warned: there is no better Trump. It will actually get *worse* from here, which most of them have assured themselves is impossible. And yet it will. And this scares them. /9
In the end, it's a false question about "who will be proved right." Even with a honeymoon grace period, that debate should have ended after Helsinki. But it's over now as we enter this time of national crisis. They know this. It's why they'll yell louder: It's panic time. /10x
