Trump can’t live forever, and if the down ballot results are a guide, his cohorts are nowhere near as popular as he is. His Congressional majorities are wafer-thin, and some of his Cabinet choices alarm even some Republicans. Hang in there, the fat lady hasn’t sung yet…
I’ll take this as a bit of comfort this morning. Somehow I worked myself up into a mix of panic and sadness last night.
This is what scares me though.
Republicans know, the media knows, that when Trump kicks it, their gravy train is over. Like for a generation if not permanently.
What would you do if you knew your party was completely cooked in the next 4 years? That you could be locked out of power forever, that all the grifters and liars and criminals would be exposed and possibly jailed?
You simply destroy the federal government to the best of your ability. Make sure nobody else can use it. Engineer the nastiest possible crises to land during the next administration, to keep their attention focused on that, making sure they get blamed for it.
This was my thought to seeing Tulsi Gabbard floated for the intelligence spot. This isn’t something you’d do to try and hold power forever, this is what you’d do to wreck and loot anything and everything on the way out.