Trump’s on His Way Out, and That’s a Function of Money

Twain’s thoughts here apply nicely to U.S. politics in the era of the Big Lie, QAnon, and all other related points of stupidity in American life.  And, for a while, it appeared that this is what was keeping Trump afloat in our politics.

Now the issue seems to be less about arguing against idiots, and more about money.  Here’s a theory: the reason that Trump is now, all of a sudden, being expelled from his position of power in the Republican party is that more money can be extracted from GOP donors in his absence than from his presence.

He’s sucked his MAGA donor base dry.  Hateful morons contributed to his building the wall, to his baseless litigation of the stolen election, and now to his criminal defense, as he’s about to be ground into the pavement with dozens of different felony charges.  But all that this has done is left tens of millions of idiots bereft of whatever money they had coming into this catastrophe.

Billionaires and huge corporations aren’t out of money.  What they’re out of is patience with a political figure who has brought the Republican party to its knees.

Game, set, and match.