As Trumps Stench Spreads, Republicans Hold Their Noses and Carry On

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As Trump’s Stench Spreads, Republicans Hold Their Noses and Carry On
Would Republicans have repealed Obamacare in a Rubio or Cruz administration? Sure, but not this brazenly or sleazily.
Michael Tomasky
06.09.17 1:00 AM ET


Someday, and given the pace at which events move these days I suspect it won’t be that far away, history will begin to render judgments on how people responded to the Trump era. To Republicans, she will not be kind.

Amidst heated competition, the booby prize yesterday went to Speaker Paul Ryan, best actor in the blockbuster film “He’s Just New to This.” Oh is that so? Tell us please, Mr. Speaker: precisely how much justice is a newbie to Washington allowed to obstruct?

The hanging question after James Comey’s testimony is the same question that hung mephitically in the air before the testimony and will continue to befoul the atmosphere until someone says enough: When will the Republicans—forget that; any Republican—take a stand against this madness? Two things are clear to anyone whose brain hasn’t been jellied by too much time spent under a MAGA hat. One, President Trump is in deep, deep trouble; even Fox News acknowledged that, playing far more defense than offense this afternoon as James Comey’s testimony ended.

And two, this man shouldn’t be anywhere near the Oval Office. He has no respect for law, tradition, norms; anything. His stench attaches to anyone and anything in his orbit, and he eventually drags it all into the moral sewer in which he resides. With respect to the people who’ve decided to attach themselves to him, that’s fine; that moral sewer is exactly what Kellyanne Conway and Reince Priebus and Seth Mnuchin—and yeah, even H.R. McMaster and James Mattis, unless they get out fast—deserve. More unfortunately, the Trump smell is getting on the Constitution of the United States. And Republicans know it.

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There are, it emerges, two essences of Trumpism. The first essence emanates from everything about the man himself. The crookedness, the rank stupidity, the rank cu-pidity (now there’s a rhyme you don’t get to deploy very often), the thoroughgoing corrupt smallness of the man in every way. That’s the Trumpism that was on the dock today before the Senate Intelligence Committee, and that, with the right combination of justice and luck, will someday be on trial, figuratively and literally. This is an essence that blinds his true believers, who see every defect as evidence of his greatness.

The second essence of Trumpism is the effect it has on those who know better but haven’t the courage to say so. They see this cancer, recognize it privately for what it is, but nevertheless ask themselves: What can I extract from it before it captures the whole body?

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[ProfessorGAC]

1. Nice Find, Sis!

That was a good article. Writer has an interesting vocabulary, too.

[oasis]

2. The GOP will pay a price for cowardice. nt

[rock]

3. "Republicans Hold Their Noses and Carry On"

After all they've been sitting on their thumbs, so you can already imagine what they smell like!