Ding-dong, the Don is dead.
Or is he?
An election storm brought the house down on the
Mar-a-Lago warlock and devastated Republican hopes for a rout.
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Republicans are blaming Donald Trump for anointing
wacky candidates and then using campaign rallies to promote his upcoming
presidential announcement. Republican lawmakers privately say those
self-indulgent rallies cost them Senate and House seats because many normal
Republicans and independents have had their fill of Trump and his crazy train.
The third time should be the charm. Since winning in
2016, Trump helped Republicans lose the House in 2018 and lose the White House
and the Senate after the 2020 elections. Now he seems to have rescued Democrats
from the traditional midterm shellacking — Republicans are barely within reach
of a House majority and are watching their chance of controlling the Senate
slip away. Trump has been poison for his party.
Polls showed that even many people unhappy with Joe
Biden voted Democratic, a sign that Trump fatigue has finally set in. It is so
bad, the Murdoch empire has turned on its former fair-haired boy.
Ivanka and Jared are moving on and are not
interested in being part of a Trump restoration, according to Kate Bennett at
CNN. Even die-hard Laura Ingraham seemed to sour on her former hero.
“If the voters conclude that you’re putting your own
ego or your own grudges ahead of what’s good for the country,” she told her
viewers Wednesday night, “they’re going to look elsewhere, period.”
The New York Post ridiculed him on the cover as
“Trumpty Dumpty”, with a gratuitous shot about how he not only had a great
fall, but could not build a wall.
Trump responded by calling the paper “the no longer
great New York Post”, and blamed his failure to complete the wall on former
Speaker Paul Ryan, a Fox Corp. board member, and “Broken Old Crow” Mitch
McConnell, saying they did not get him enough money from Congress.
Republicans refused to convict Trump on impeachment charges and ban him from running for public office.
But succession in Murdoch world seems to be well
under way. Its new infatuation with Ron DeSanctimonious has obviously enraged
Trump, who was casting spells from his Palm Beach lair, his incoherent
nastiness zinging Republican stars and anyone else who makes his combover stand
on end.
In his Truth Social posts, he tried to paint the
election results as better than they were, sneering that candidates who shunned
his support, including Joe O’Dea in Colorado, went down big and had a “Death
Wish”.
With a racist crack about Glenn Youngkin’s name,
Trump tried to undermine the governor of Virginia, a potential powerhouse,
saying he would never have won last year without Trump giving “a very big Trump
Rally for him telephonically”.
The former president also had a “Heathers”-like
hissy-fit against Ron DeSantis. First, he thuggishly threatened the Florida
governor after his Ohio rally last Monday, warning him not to think about
getting in the presidential race.
“If he did run, I will tell you things about him
that won’t be very flattering,” Trump said. “I know more about him than anyone
other than perhaps his wife, who is really running his campaign.”
After DeSantis had a crushing victory in the once
swingy Sunshine State, declaring it the place “woke goes to die”, Trump’s
puerile jealousy exploded. He posted that he had rescued DeSantis when he was
“politically dead”.
“And now Ron DeSanctimonious is playing games!” said
Trump, angry that DeSantis would not rule out running for president in 2024.
Some in the GOP say attacking a younger generation
of Republican stars puts Trump in dangerous territory. But that is how Trump
got to the White House, belittling Little Marco Rubio and Lyin’ Ted Cruz.
The moment feels reminiscent of January 6 and its
immediate aftermath. Republicans go crazy on Trump, say “enough is enough”, as
Lindsey Graham did at that juncture, and act as if they were ready to toss him
aside. But it did not take long for “my Kevin”, as Trump called McCarthy, to
make a groveling pilgrimage to Mar-a-Lago.
Republicans refused to convict Trump on impeachment
charges and ban him from running for public office. Now they are living with
the consequences. It is not hard to imagine that this revolt against the
revolting Trump will die down in a few days and they will all be back behind
this person that they blame for their current convulsions.
“If blackmailing Ukraine, inciting a riot, trying to
overturn the election, hoarding classified documents, using overtly racist
language for seven years, including at Glenn Youngkin today, was not enough to
cause you to walk away from Donald Trump,” political analyst Ron Brownstein
said on CNN Friday, what makes people think Trump is toast now?
One of the bright spots of the election is that a lot of
people seemed to turn their back on crazy. Let us hope that Republicans will
get the message and move on from the King of Crazy before he gets another shot
at destroying democracy.
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