It's
slowly dawning on Republicans that Trump just might be the worst president ever
By Hunter
WHAT TIPPED YOU OFF?
WHAT TIPPED YOU OFF?
All is not well in Republicanville. No matter how slavish the
Fox News segments become, it ain't working; it is slowly dawning on powerful
Republicans that the president they are so dutifully protecting and sucking up
to may, in fact, be an idiot.
Trump’s
struggles go beyond health care. More than six months into Trump’s presidency,
Republicans have no legislative accomplishments other than the confirmation of
Supreme Court Justice Neil Gorsuch, a confusing foreign policy, and a White
House that is perpetually in damage-control mode. From lawmakers and governors
to donors and foreign policy experts, a certain realization is sinking in
within the party, based on more than a dozen interviews in recent days: Donald
Trump has been a historically weak and ineffective president.
That it took six months to start wondering whether the man who
talked about grabbing women, who discussed his penis size during a presidential
debate, who sent his press secretary to baldly lie about the size of the crowds
on his inauguration day, and who is currently engaged in a public defense of
his campaign team openly seeking the assistance of the Russian government
during a period of unprecedented assault on our election systems by that government,
is perhaps not the brilliant world-shaping genius he made himself out to be.
This is the problem with the Republican Party. They don't catch
on too quick.
Even the president’s top backers are losing patience.
Billionaire Trump patrons Rebekah and Bob Mercer are “apoplectic” over the
health care debacle, with renewed fears that Trump’s lofty goals of changing
Washington have become all but impossible, said a Trump administration adviser.
The adviser added that lobbyists and establishment lawmakers are making Trump’s
life more difficult. [...]
“They’re saying, ‘It can’t be done, he can’t change
Washington,’” the adviser said, before putting more of the blame for the lack
of progress on Senate Majority Leader McConnell. “It’s the Washington cartel at
its worst revolting against the president.”
Bob Mercer has been the funder of everything wrong with the
conservative movement for some time now. He is now apparently
"apoplectic" that the band of incompetent white nationalist
conspiracy-mongers and burn-it-downers he shoveled into the White House are
somehow not able to single-handedly work their white nationalist, burn it down
ways—and blaming the rest of Washington for blocking them? Good. That's the
best news we've heard all day. Maybe the fucker will flee the country for some
oligarchy that will treat him better; Russia is supposedly lovely this time of
year.
A
recent report on “soft power,” a term that covers a country’s political and
cultural influence, found that the United States under Trump has slipped from
first to third among 25 countries; France, led by Emmanuel Macron, jumped to
first.
Heavens, it seems only yesterday Republicans had dealt a
powerful blow to French influence by renaming cafeteria foods to spite them;
this will be unwelcome news.
Anyhoo, we're six months into the Donald Trump pretzeldenty and,
by gum, he has no accomplishments, has cratered U.S. influence, is still
operating with a skeletal state department, is at war with his own staff to
such an extent that they no longer are willing to appear on television when
speaking about him, and has no apparent foreign or domestic policy vision other
than tweeting about whatever last caught his attention on Fox & Friends.
And this is despite Republican House and Senate leaders Ryan and McConnell
bending over backward to defend him from an unending stream of scandals
and in-your-face corruption. Good show. Really, good show, everybody. What a
fine denouement for the "party of Lincoln."
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