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'This pig': Observers erupt as ex-president caught 'threatening the voters' at his rally
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to be honest the GOP lost the chance to be free of Trump when their senators refused to convict him after the Jan 6 impeachment.
They could have been free of him. they could have put this party above their own personal power. but nope. They chose this. They chose him over america.
They chose an insurrectionist asshole. a misogynist. a racist. a rapist. a bigot in every way. A geriatric fascist prick.
which, all this besides, Trump could back out any time he wanted to. just like Biden did. But that also would put America before his own personal power.
TL/DR:
THEY DESERVE EACH OTHER
I mean, they also could've convicted him after his first impeachment, too. Or they could've 25th'd him, or they could've not stacked the Federal judiciary with partisan traitors like Judge Cannon, or any number of things that would've entailed acting in good faith for the good of the country instead of blatantly trying to seize power at all costs. They had plenty of chances and rejected them all.
all of which happened before the Jan 6 impeachment and senate trial. They and him are the same.
I think they lost their chance when he won in 2016. He has so thoroughly captured their base that ousting him would certainly lose them the next several elections, if they ever could fully recover. That’s not to say it’s not 100% on the GOP, he’s the consequence of decades of pandering to the far-right. I’m convinced they could have gotten rid of him before 2016 as well, but the conservatives thought they could control Hitler again and now he’s got them by the balls.
...well, he can't back out: his 2016 win was the unintentional outcome of a ~~failed~~ media campaign gone awry, and everything since then has been a mad scramble to avoid prosecution for all the laws he broke along the way and to keep uncle vlad's kompromat at bay...
...once he loses executive immunity or outlives his usefuless, his whole world comes crashing down: you've seen the panic in eyes since late 2016, and most of the remaining GOP have since come along for the same ride...
That’s a good point.