The majority of Republicans have not just thrown in their hat with Trump, they have sold their souls to him. They have absorbed his lies. They made his early-January insurrection part of their quilt. His anti-constitutionality, his corruption, his clearly authoritarian poison are now the three pillars of their collective narrative.
Would the death of the 45th president of the United States awaken the walking dead from their eternal slumber and send them racing back to us for de-Trumpification classes? Or, would it harden their resolve and fill them with the kind of partisan purpose the Allies at the end of World War II were certain the fanatical SS would have? Hidden in Alpine caves after the death of the German Fuhrer, the SS were supposed to create the eternal redoubt and nibble at the edges until victory arrived. Most instead just went back to their homes and lived out their lives.
It Trump was shot tomorrow, a large minority of the country would want the day to be turned into a national holiday to honor the man; and, the majority would agree that it should also be a national holiday — only not to honor him but to celebrate the emancipation; to celebrate America’s awkward victory over fascism. The “heartland,” however, would truly be saddened.
Without Trump, the Republicans do not have a personality big enough, vile enough — stupid enough they have plenty for sure — to replace him. The Republican party now has a deadly serious problem: It so closely, cultishly aligned itself to DJT even before, and ever more since, his electoral defeat, it has no back-up plan. No candidate in the wings. Nowhere, in short, to go from here.
Already seen by many as committing political suicide by continuing to support Trump, the party would undoubtedly cede any right it thinks it has to leadership should it choose to hew to the tune of either of its most extreme, and silly, members — Leader Mitch McConnell ((Ky) or Newcomer Gadfly Marjorie Taylor Greene (Ga).
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