As last Wednesday’s horrors and the Republican Party’s complicity in them became more apparent, an unlikely savior emerged to save the Republican Party from years of electoral exile.
This is the Democratic president of the House of Representatives, Nancy Pelosi.
Pelosi is unlikely to have to save a party that has vilified her so much over the years, accusing Democratic candidates of having their “San Francisco values,” etc. , and she responded in the same way, winning every ounce of the Republican Party. rebuke he received.
But by presenting a political trial article that opposes President Donald Trump for his role in inciting unrest in the US Capitol. USA, Pelosi can speed up the reactivation of his opponents. back in the workplace, it would allow the Republican Party to get rid of the cement boots that are pushing it into the roads.
It turns out that Congressional Republicans are sympathetic: Wyoming rep. Liz Cheney, the 3rd Republican in the House of Representatives, said Tuesday that she would vote to indict Trump, and several news agencies reported Tuesday that Senate majority leader Mitch McConnell ended up with Trump. Republicans are done with him, and he’s pleased that House Democrats are moving toward political judgment.
Trump’s control over the REPUBLICAN Party has been evident since she began running in 2015. As Amy Walter of the Cook Political Report recently noted, 54% of Republican respondents in an OCTOBER NBC/Wall Street Journal vote said they were more known as Donald. Trump supporter who supporters of the Republican Party.
His dominance of the Republican Party has forced obedience only among party voters, but also among its elected leaders.
Before Air Force One landed in Georgia last week, according to Politics, Trump told Republican Senator Kelly Loeffler that she would “make a number” at the second-round election rally if she did not assist in her efforts to oppose the electoral vote count.
It’s not as if Loeffler needed some kind of persuasion, she had been a vigorous Trump when his election approached on Tuesday. But, of course, he turned to Twitter to back up his incredibly silly plan: “I’ll vote to give President Trump and the other Americans the fair hearing they deserve and the objection to the Electoral College certification process. “
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The next day, Loeffler and Republican Sen. David Perdue lost their circular in the Senate for now, making sure that Georgia, a state that was once red, will now have two Democratic senators.
After the Capitol Storm, Loeffler announced that he would no longer object to the vote count; however, about 140 House Republicans still accepted the scam, even when the blood was cleared outside the doors of their bedrooms.
If Trump escaped punishment for pushing for an armed insurgency opposed to the U. S. government, he would undoubtedly live to “make a number” of Republicans in the future. the disgraced former president, who would continue to enjoy a monopoly on the front lobe of the Republican Party just threatening to run in 2024.
But if the Senate finds Trump guilty in a political trial and votes to ban him in the workplace in the future, he would be at a disadvantage from a vital club he could use to keep party members online. public platform to blow up applicants for Mar-a-Lago or any other social networking site that eventually welcomes members on the right; however, his threats would no longer have the seal of a former president in a smart position. so damaging to either party that he had to be absolutely excommunicated from public life.
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In fact, it may be bigger for Democrats than for Trump’s ghost to continue to frequent the Lincoln Party. a winning electoral formula. Ask Georgian voters.
Therefore, Congressional Republicans see Pelosi’s political trial crusade less as an attack than as a gift to allow his party to start over. They already felt when he presented the same opportunity in December 2019; now, an opportunity has emerged for the time being to rectify the situation.
The political trial, withdrawal and banishment in just over a week seem like a long way off, however, Trump is a tumor that wants to be isolated from the Republican Party at any time and Pelosi fortunately gives Republicans a scalpel.
Trump’s political career began with a lie about a president’s inability to hold office, and this ended, ironically, with Trump as the only one to sustain this misfortune.
Christian Schneider, who lives in Madison, Wisconsin, is a senior reporter at College Fix, a member of the USA TODAY Taxpayer Council and “1916: The Blog. “Follow him on Twitter: @Schneider_CM
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