Former President Donald Trump told his followers not to use the one method they have to impact the future of government. The former President treated his people as pawns to go after the non-Trump portion of the Republican Party. He threatened to sub-optimize the Red Team's future to maintain his fragile ego.
Having worked for two narcissists in my career it took me a long time to realize the one thing that motivated those bosses, the need to optimize their image in the present moment.
Trump calls the 2020 election the "most corrupt in the history of our country." He cannot face the actual will of the country. Enough people tired of his punch back harder persona, trail of illness and death from Trump's botching the pandemic response and inability to meet the most basic ethical standards.
Combine his insatiable ego and gluttony for revenge with advisors willing to submarine longstanding democratic principles and practices and America is in a precarious place. I'd like to trust Republicans to deal with their problem but conservative pundits aren't inspiring in that regard
Conservative pundit Charlie Sykes on Friday lamented what he described as the “race to the bottom” to “see who can be the most MAGA” between Republicans in Florida, Arizona and Texas.
“I know that Republicans in Texas have been conservative for a long time but there was a time when conservative Republicans in Texas were not absolutely batshit crazy,” Sykes, founder of the conservative website The Bulwark, told MSNBC’s Nicolle Wallace in video shared online by Mediaite.
“Texas Republicans used to be respectable,” Sykes continued. “And now we are almost in this competition … between Florida, Arizona and Texas to see who can be the most MAGA, who can play the most hair-on-fire culture war games, because that seems to be this race to the bottom that we’re talking about here.”
Confusion is a strategy to get people off balance so they can be manipulated. Trump is a master of sowing confusion and division. For that our country pays a tremendous price.
Update 11-14-21: In 2021’s MAGAfied GOP, House Republicans who voted for a bipartisan infrastructure bill find themselves on the receiving end of death threats. “It’s amazing people want to kill me over paving roads and clean water,” Rep. Andrew Garbarino (R-N.Y.)
