Cassidy is a traitor to his profession and his constituents. MTG is just hopeless. Get a real job, Marge. This is the longest freaking nightmare ever. Wake up people!
Even authoritarian oligarchs get sleepy when the spectacle stalls.
Trump looks like he’s buffering through his own cabinet meeting… the tragic fate of a dictator who thought power would be more exciting than paperwork.
Turns out dismantling democracy is exhausting when the cameras aren’t rolling.
I’ve heard more from people who identify as that in the era of Trump. They disavow MAGA and Trump, and say that isn’t true conservatism and claim that their conservatism is the real deal. I call bullshit on that. These folks have enabled MAGA.
G W Bush and Mitt Romney are examples of this by refusing to endorse Kamala. You guys are a part of the problem.
Excellent and optimistic. I particularly enjoyed the use of quotes around words such as Republican policies. And I totally agree the Republican party has done more to damage this country in the last 25 years than anything else. They do not seem to believe that all Americans are equal but that the rich should be elevated.
Thank you for this excellent synopsis of the current GOP. I am so jaded that I think that we are never going to escape rich people running everything forever. It is very frustrating.
Living in Louisiana, I have posted numerous excoriations on Senator Cassidy's home page and left lots of messages on his DC office voicemail about his plethora of shortcomings and pathetic sycophancy. Apparently, his vote to convict Drumph in impeachment 2.0 was a fluke because he has done everything in his power since to ingratiate himself to the orange-faced madman in hopes that he would get an endorsement for his reelection bid next year.
As the deciding vote to confirm "Brain Worm" RFK, Jr as head of HHS, Cassidy unleashed dangerous anti-science and anti-vax lies. And let's not forget about another Louisiana quack, Dr. Ralph Abraham. He was recently elevated to the #2 spot at the CDC, perish the thought. Mind you, during the COVID pandemic, he endorsed fringe ideas such as using ivermectin for treating COVID and in his role as the LA Surgeon General, he announced that Louisiana would stop promoting mass vaccinations this year.
I’m a nurse, not even in Louisiana, but I’ve felt compelled to write him a few times. I could still stomach him when he said he got some promises from Kennedy about vaccines.But, since then, he’s been complicit in killing people. Politicians like him, who sold their souls to Trump because they were so afraid of being primaried, are waking up to the fact that Trump’s support will be a liability. It is too late, we will always F-ing remember that you voted for the regime every time, so will the historians.
JoAnn, thank you for contacting Cassidy and voicing your concerns about RFK Jr's dangerous lies about vaccines. Cassidy was played like a violin and apparently the promises made were NOT promises kept. He has no spine or shame and sold his soul to the orange-faced devil all in the vain hope of being endorsed in his reelection bid next November. As you stated, the joke is on Cassidy because the hoped-for endorsement has turned into kryptonite. Historians will look back at this time as America's Dark Age. The midterms are coming and unless the MAGAts succeed in their attempts to steal the election by gerrymandering, the political landscape will change dramatically against the regime/junta in power.
I hope Aaron is right that the GOP's post Trump future is gloomy but I can't help feeling that if the American electorate is ....let's be kind and call it crazy...enough to elect Trump not just once but twice than perhaps the GOP will continue to win future elections.
This analysis of the Republican party's present and future was the poorer for not mentioning the religous right and evangelicals in particular. I can't see them ever leaving the Republican party and in so far as they are dominated by anti-abortion zealots they have more reason to love the Republcan party now than they had pre-Trump.
I think they aren't going anywhere but will remain a key constituency of the Republican party until they mercifully become too old and feeble to vote. That will surely happen but we're talking multiple decades for that to become evident.
They're not going away, no. They're the core of the Republican party and have been for decades.
And until we, as a society, get over the unspoken notion that Christianity is intrinsically good, and that anyone who does something horrible is a "fake Christian" things aren't going to get substantially better.
Evangelicals are the perfect example of what happens when the church is allowed to do whatever it wants without constraint. Christianity can't and won't police itself. It needs to have external constraints on it, otherwise we'll just be sitting and waiting for the next trump to come along and do this all over again.
Ah, so sad: The Republicans Forever Reich - marked by petulance, tantrums, chaos, and violent revenge - seems to be coming to a petulant, chaotic and stumbling end. We shall all weep bitter tears.
Trump was a showman. I say was, because he is rapidly becoming a shadow of the man he used to be. When I say showman, I mean like a conman, all show, no substance. Trained by the lawyer to the mobsters, Trump thinks and acts like a criminal, because he is. As showman can have a good run, can even use their strengths to get elected and create a cult. The cult is not purely Trump's creation, because the Christian nationalist leaders were waiting for a huckster, opportunist with no moral center like Trump, and they helped him gain cult leader legitimacy.
Trump's problem is that he is losing the 'strength' to maintain the image for his followers and because it is a 'personality cult' there is nobody who can step into his shoes, which is a problem(?) for Republicans.
Trump, being a pure opportunist rode to success in 2016 by blatantly catering to the White Nationalists and Christian Nationalists and anyone else willing to be represented that the 'old school' Republicans had shoved to the side for so long in their quest to service the rich and powerful.
Trump is a simple soul; Greed, intolerance, bully, vengeance, misogynist... and will be hard to replace in the Republican organization...
I’m also noticing smarmy Cabinet members are having to give longer, suspiciously contrived answers to media queries about tariffs, jobs, farming, war crimes, drug lord pardons, pedophiles, and most recently the President’s evident physical and mental decline. Fox News is still flattening Joe Biden at every opportunity, but even they are beginning to look more than a little desperate and shop worn.
Don't give MTG too much credit for changing her mind about ACA subsidies. She was personally affected - her adult children were going to lose their subsidies. Maybe she noticed the same impact on her constituents after that. MAGA and other Republicans are happy to hurt others as long as they themselves don't suffer.
"But I’m going to go against everyone on this issue because when the tax credits expire this year my own adult children’s insurance premiums for 2026 are going to DOUBLE, along with all the wonderful families and hard-working people in my district,” Greene wrote in a post on the social platform X quoted in The Hill
Can always count on Americans to do the right thing after they've tried everything else?
-- Winston Churchill,
Cassidy is a traitor to his profession and his constituents. MTG is just hopeless. Get a real job, Marge. This is the longest freaking nightmare ever. Wake up people!
Thanks for the perspective ❤️.
Even authoritarian oligarchs get sleepy when the spectacle stalls.
Trump looks like he’s buffering through his own cabinet meeting… the tragic fate of a dictator who thought power would be more exciting than paperwork.
Turns out dismantling democracy is exhausting when the cameras aren’t rolling.
Where are all of the “True Conservatives”?
I’ve heard more from people who identify as that in the era of Trump. They disavow MAGA and Trump, and say that isn’t true conservatism and claim that their conservatism is the real deal. I call bullshit on that. These folks have enabled MAGA.
G W Bush and Mitt Romney are examples of this by refusing to endorse Kamala. You guys are a part of the problem.
Cowards! Both of them can go to hell!
Excellent and optimistic. I particularly enjoyed the use of quotes around words such as Republican policies. And I totally agree the Republican party has done more to damage this country in the last 25 years than anything else. They do not seem to believe that all Americans are equal but that the rich should be elevated.
Thank you for this excellent synopsis of the current GOP. I am so jaded that I think that we are never going to escape rich people running everything forever. It is very frustrating.
Living in Louisiana, I have posted numerous excoriations on Senator Cassidy's home page and left lots of messages on his DC office voicemail about his plethora of shortcomings and pathetic sycophancy. Apparently, his vote to convict Drumph in impeachment 2.0 was a fluke because he has done everything in his power since to ingratiate himself to the orange-faced madman in hopes that he would get an endorsement for his reelection bid next year.
As the deciding vote to confirm "Brain Worm" RFK, Jr as head of HHS, Cassidy unleashed dangerous anti-science and anti-vax lies. And let's not forget about another Louisiana quack, Dr. Ralph Abraham. He was recently elevated to the #2 spot at the CDC, perish the thought. Mind you, during the COVID pandemic, he endorsed fringe ideas such as using ivermectin for treating COVID and in his role as the LA Surgeon General, he announced that Louisiana would stop promoting mass vaccinations this year.
What a pathetic pair, huh?
I’m a nurse, not even in Louisiana, but I’ve felt compelled to write him a few times. I could still stomach him when he said he got some promises from Kennedy about vaccines.But, since then, he’s been complicit in killing people. Politicians like him, who sold their souls to Trump because they were so afraid of being primaried, are waking up to the fact that Trump’s support will be a liability. It is too late, we will always F-ing remember that you voted for the regime every time, so will the historians.
JoAnn, thank you for contacting Cassidy and voicing your concerns about RFK Jr's dangerous lies about vaccines. Cassidy was played like a violin and apparently the promises made were NOT promises kept. He has no spine or shame and sold his soul to the orange-faced devil all in the vain hope of being endorsed in his reelection bid next November. As you stated, the joke is on Cassidy because the hoped-for endorsement has turned into kryptonite. Historians will look back at this time as America's Dark Age. The midterms are coming and unless the MAGAts succeed in their attempts to steal the election by gerrymandering, the political landscape will change dramatically against the regime/junta in power.
I hope Aaron is right that the GOP's post Trump future is gloomy but I can't help feeling that if the American electorate is ....let's be kind and call it crazy...enough to elect Trump not just once but twice than perhaps the GOP will continue to win future elections.
This analysis of the Republican party's present and future was the poorer for not mentioning the religous right and evangelicals in particular. I can't see them ever leaving the Republican party and in so far as they are dominated by anti-abortion zealots they have more reason to love the Republcan party now than they had pre-Trump.
I think they aren't going anywhere but will remain a key constituency of the Republican party until they mercifully become too old and feeble to vote. That will surely happen but we're talking multiple decades for that to become evident.
They're not going away, no. They're the core of the Republican party and have been for decades.
And until we, as a society, get over the unspoken notion that Christianity is intrinsically good, and that anyone who does something horrible is a "fake Christian" things aren't going to get substantially better.
Evangelicals are the perfect example of what happens when the church is allowed to do whatever it wants without constraint. Christianity can't and won't police itself. It needs to have external constraints on it, otherwise we'll just be sitting and waiting for the next trump to come along and do this all over again.
If Dems don't step up and become the next FDR when back in power, they'll lose constituents, too.
💯
Ah, so sad: The Republicans Forever Reich - marked by petulance, tantrums, chaos, and violent revenge - seems to be coming to a petulant, chaotic and stumbling end. We shall all weep bitter tears.
Sorry, pet peeve - you don't "reign" anything in, you REIN it in.
That is all.
Clear and concise writing, David. Thanks for the post.
Trump was a showman. I say was, because he is rapidly becoming a shadow of the man he used to be. When I say showman, I mean like a conman, all show, no substance. Trained by the lawyer to the mobsters, Trump thinks and acts like a criminal, because he is. As showman can have a good run, can even use their strengths to get elected and create a cult. The cult is not purely Trump's creation, because the Christian nationalist leaders were waiting for a huckster, opportunist with no moral center like Trump, and they helped him gain cult leader legitimacy.
Trump's problem is that he is losing the 'strength' to maintain the image for his followers and because it is a 'personality cult' there is nobody who can step into his shoes, which is a problem(?) for Republicans.
Trump, being a pure opportunist rode to success in 2016 by blatantly catering to the White Nationalists and Christian Nationalists and anyone else willing to be represented that the 'old school' Republicans had shoved to the side for so long in their quest to service the rich and powerful.
Trump is a simple soul; Greed, intolerance, bully, vengeance, misogynist... and will be hard to replace in the Republican organization...
I’m also noticing smarmy Cabinet members are having to give longer, suspiciously contrived answers to media queries about tariffs, jobs, farming, war crimes, drug lord pardons, pedophiles, and most recently the President’s evident physical and mental decline. Fox News is still flattening Joe Biden at every opportunity, but even they are beginning to look more than a little desperate and shop worn.
Exceptional writing!
Don't give MTG too much credit for changing her mind about ACA subsidies. She was personally affected - her adult children were going to lose their subsidies. Maybe she noticed the same impact on her constituents after that. MAGA and other Republicans are happy to hurt others as long as they themselves don't suffer.
"But I’m going to go against everyone on this issue because when the tax credits expire this year my own adult children’s insurance premiums for 2026 are going to DOUBLE, along with all the wonderful families and hard-working people in my district,” Greene wrote in a post on the social platform X quoted in The Hill
https://thehill.com/homenews/house/5544215-greene-remarks-affordable-care-act-subsidies/