Former President Donald Trump’s eldest son, Donald Trump Jr. said on Friday that he was considering backing “plenty” of primary challenges to Senate Republicans in next year’s midterms — likely advancing his father’s effort to exact revenge on those who have crossed him.
In fact, I don’t think Q-Anon is quite crazy enough for the GOP anymore. Perhaps CPAC can start recruiting people who are running around naked in busy traffic to lead them into the future.
Spreading what little funding people who actually understand politics will provide around is a very good recipe for losing general elections by supporting a sea of non-viable challengers.
In the Friday interview the president’s son accused the GOP establishment of blindly throwing “cash, time, money and energy to help failing candidates who have no charisma, no personality, no political chops, get over the line simply because they’ve been there a few years. That’s the kind of nonsense that has to go, and I think it will.”
Notice that what Jr. espouses leaves candidates who will work within the law for the good of the country completely unmentioned, not even an afterthought. If this does not define the GQP as the Party of T rumpp…the GOP is truly dead. This fact, by itself, would not bother me at all, except it is now the GQP that the rest of the world must overcome to do what’s best for this country, and for the rest of the free world. My fear is that the new GQP will end up being even more powerful than the old GOP, and that was bad enough.
"Backing" means getting paid by other people’s money (Chump PAC) to say nasty things about people who despise you for what and who you are. It does not involve productive activity for the commonwealth in any way shape or form.
I think Trump would have largely supported the Covid-relief bill that every single Republican is voting against. It tells me he’s better at this politics thing than most of them, and that’s a wedge we can use against Republicans in 2022.
The politics of personal revenge and division as a substitute for the politics of rational policies for the public good is their game. Have at it, Donnie Jr.! But for them, it was NEVER for the public good.