I talked about Trump deciding not to run some time ago — retiring “undefeated” and saying he’d been the best President since Lincoln (which is exactly what he did say) — but if he does it now, he’ll look like he’s abandoned his cult members to save himself . . . Oh, wait a minute, that’s exactly what death cult leaders do. So it wouldn’t surprise me in the least.
But voters are going to take out Trump’s sins on whomever the GOP puts up — it would almost assuredly have to be Pence but he’s been such a candy-ass, chickenshit enabler I don’t know how he could possibly divorce himself from Trump. I think the GOP hierarchy has finally begun to internally confront what they’ve done — they always knew, of course, but it was “worth it” to save their own particular jobs. Senator Graham for instance will pray he makes it through the election by slurping on the collective taints of Trump’s base, watch Trump lose, then disavow him completely, serve his six years, then retire. He’s sorted.
Gasparino, whose tweet started this, is an investigative reporter who broke a number of huge business stories, including the AIG bailout story. He was a juggernaut in 2008 during the crisis (which I remember all too well). The fact that he wrote this is very interesting.
I want to have my own Electoral revenge on this fat orange **** who I have been horrified by and detested for 30 years. I want all of his gutless ass-kissing enablers going down in glorious flames, screaming in terror as they fall. I want them all to suffer. But I also really do love my country. Any way Trump goes is fine by me, and the sooner the better.