What Trump’s Total GOP Control Means Next

[robosmith]

What Trump’s Total GOP Control Means Next

 

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The sweeping attacks from Republican elected officials against former President Donald Trump’s conviction on 34 felony counts last week send a clear signal that if he wins a second term, he will face even less internal resistance from the GOP than he did during his first four years in the White House.

Republican pushback was rare enough in his first term, against even Trump’s most extreme ideas and actions, but it did exist in pockets of Congress and among appointees inside his own administration with roots in the party’s prior traditions. The willingness now of so many House and Senate Republicans, across the GOP’s ideological spectrum, to unreservedly echo Trump’s denunciation of his conviction shows that the flickers of independence that flashed during his first term have been virtually extinguished as he approaches a possible second term.

The strong message of the near-universal Republican condemnation of the verdict is that  Donald Trump owns the Republican Party,  the political scientist Susan Stokes, who directs the Chicago Center on Democracy at the University of Chicago, told me.  That means he can pretty much force the rest of the party leadership, if they see their future in the party, to toe the line, no matter what.

GOP elected officials are aligning obediently behind Trump even as numerous signs suggest that the Supreme Court’s Republican-appointed majority, and other GOP-appointed judges in the federal courts, may be more willing than in his first term to openly defend and enable his actions. And all of these indications of Trump’s tightening grip over Republicans in the electoral and legal arenas follow his description of a second-term agenda that pushes more aggressively against the limits of law and custom on presidential power.

That combination points to a possible second Trump term defined by both fewer constraints and more challenges to the traditional constitutional order.  What should most alarm Americans who believe that somehow ‘the system will hold’ is that for all the red hats and red ties Republican electeds don to appease their leader, they seem to have no red lines,  Deana El-Mallawany, a senior counsel for the bipartisan group Protect Democracy, told me in an email.  Which suggests that the most radical things Trump has hinted at—being a dictator (for a day), tearing up the constitution—which seem unthinkable today could just as easily come to pass in the very near future. 

The same situation enabled Hitler to destroy democracy after being convicted for insurrection and elected AGAIN.

[Nationalist]

"AHHH HITLER!!! AHHH!!! WE ALL GONNA DIIIEEE!!!"

pfft...

[BeaverFever]

6 hours ago, robosmith said:

What Trump’s Total GOP Control Means Next

 

The same situation enabled Hitler to destroy democracy after being convicted for insurrection and elected AGAIN.

How DARE you insult the MAGAs’ messiah on his birthday!  Don’t you know today is a sacred religious holiday for them?

[Legato]

1 hour ago, BeaverFever said:

How DARE you insult the MAGAs’ messiah on his birthday!  Don’t you know today is a sacred religious holiday for them?

Good morning Godwin!

[Rebound]

5 hours ago, Nationalist said:

"AHHH HITLER!!! AHHH!!! WE ALL GONNA DIIIEEE!!!"

pfft...

I don’t want to live in a fascist dictatorship. 

[robosmith]

6 hours ago, Nationalist said:

"AHHH HITLER!!! AHHH!!! WE ALL GONNA DIIIEEE!!!"

pfft...

You're such an lDIOT. Not even all Germans died from Hitler's DISASTER.

I am at a loss to understand what you believe you're accomplishing with your HYPERBOLIC BULLSHIT.

Your words sound like you're having a stroke.

[Fluffypants]

34 minutes ago, robosmith said:

You're such an lDIOT. Not even all Germans died from Hitler's DISASTER.

I am at a loss to understand what you believe you're accomplishing with your HYPERBOLIC BULLSHIT.

Your words sound like you're having a stroke.

I am not sure what part of Hitler's reign you refer to though.

I doubt Trump is going set up Jewish concentration camps since his daughter and her children are Jewish and he has been an outspoken advocate for Israel. So that is out

Will Trump invade his neighbors trying to take over the world? In his last 4 years he never showed much interest in starting wars. So that is probably out.

What Hitlerian horrors will Trump impose on the US?

 

 

[robosmith]

1 minute ago, Fluffypants said:

I am not sure what part of Hitler's reign you refer to though.

I doubt Trump is going set up Jewish concentration camps since his daughter and her children are Jewish and he has been an outspoken advocate for Israel. So that is out

It's not going to be "Jewish" nor need it be. Trump's target has always been Mexicans and Muslims. Duh.

1 minute ago, Fluffypants said:

Will Trump invade his neighbors trying to take over the world? In his last 4 years he never showed much interest in starting wars. So that is probably out.

The fact that you cannot say ^this definitively, means it's still on the table.

1 minute ago, Fluffypants said:

What Hitlerian horrors will Trump impose on the US?

Ghettos and deportation of Mexicans for one. Terminating our Constitution for another.

You do know that Hitler destroyed democracy in Germany, don't you?

[Nationalist]

3 hours ago, Rebound said:

I don’t want to live in a fascist dictatorship. 

Nobody does Dweebles. I would suggest you vote for Trump. Brandon is way too fascist.

2 hours ago, robosmith said:

You're such an lDIOT. Not even all Germans died from Hitler's DISASTER.

I am at a loss to understand what you believe you're accomplishing with your HYPERBOLIC BULLSHIT.

Your words sound like you're having a stroke.

Lol...you sure try hard. But alas...the right guy is winning.