Politics: How the Trump Party Came to be

This will be a new part of this blog for a while. I had wanted to do this earlier when I ran out of topics for one series of posts that I was doing on politics, but then decided to go with something else as I was concerned that I wouldn’t have enough posts on a Trump centric thing and frankly wanted a break from it. Now that I have a free spot for it again, I’m going to include this as a series of posts here. You would have seen something like this once in this blog before and also in my Good Wife blog for a while.

 

Now let’s get to the name of this post. What do I mean by the Trump party? You wouldn’t think that you would see this in an official way by any means. But to me, it is quite clear that what was once known as the Republican Party is now the Trump Party. Even though it is possible that Trump himself will fade away, he has changed the party too much to the point of it being very unrecognizable from whatever it used to be like.

 

They even knew and admitted as such as the poison of Trump slowly slipped into the party as a whole. Once he became the nominee, nearly all of them fell in line with Trump. They did not want to lose his supporters even as they wanted to lose him. As they were stuck with him for at least four years with him as president, they forgot their own warning that he would be the end of the Republican Party.

 

Slowly, the party devolved into madness (as if it wasn’t that already) as anyone who dared to stand up to Trump was quickly ostracized. There were rare moments when people spoke out against Trump, but it was normally for less than a day. They would never call out the problems of his even as their own party suffered.

 

Soon, if you were NOT defending someone like Kavanaugh who was accused of sexual misconduct, you were a horrible person. You would attack his accuser, trying to destroy her side of the story while wondering why she never came forward sooner. They would ignore any and all of the crimes that Trump was accused of while not giving Democrats any of the same leeway at all in any way. That’s not to say that they should give Democrats leeway when they do wrong. They should just know to attack their own when they deserve it too.

 

After the capitol riot, 147 Republicans still voted against certifying the election. We see a lot of them still refuse to hold Trump accountable for wrongdoing and those that do vote to impeach Trump then get censored by their own party. They may have Trump voters, but at what cost? A well known saying is this: what good is it for a man to gain the world, but lose his soul? They have lost the soul of their party while becoming the party of Trump. And if Trump isn’t in jail by the time that the Republican primary for president starts in 2024, do they really think that he is just going to step aside and let others run instead of him?