No Room in the GOP for Anti-Trump Republicans, At Least Right Now

This is true right now, in the spring of 2021.  Whether it will be true when the mid-terms roll around in 2022 or the 2024 presidential election is anyone’s guess.  Consider:

• Trump’s spectacular array of legal woes, many civil, but mostly criminal.  Are there Republican politicians, serious about re-election, who will stand by his side as the world sees ironclad proof that he committed fraud, tax evasion, inciting insurrection, election tampering, extortion, and the rest?

• We also are about to see the prosecution of more than 500 of Trump’s staunchest supporters for charges of everything from unlawful entry to conspiracy and sedition.  Some of these morons are going away for 20 years when their defense ultimately fails, i.e., the President of the United States told me explicitly that this is what he wanted me to do.

• The unraveling of the “stolen election” narrative.  What happens when Fox News loses its fanny to Dominion Voting Systems in its $1.3 billion defamation suit?  (Fox competitor Newsmax has already publicly retracted its claims of election fraud.)

• Good things in America.  We’re scarcely three months into the Biden presidency, and we already have a daily blast of good news on everything from controlling the pandemic, jobs and the economy, the infrastructure bill, and the environment.

Conversely, is there anything that could happen to benefit Trump in the eyes of American voters?  Not that I can see.