The MAGA movement is far from dead.
Some Republicans are trying to distance themselves from Trump. Does he care?
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In the wake of the Red Tinkle, some Republican leaders are trying to distance themselves from Trump and the MAGA Movement.
In the 22 midterm elections from 1934 -2018, the President's party has averaged a loss of 28 House seats and four Senate seats.
In spite of an unpopular president, painful inflation and billions for an endless war, with a few uncounted votes and a Georgia runoff in December, Democratic losses in the House were limited and the Senate may remain in Democratic control.
The New Yorker called it the Democrats Not So Awful Election.
Some Republican leaders who have been kissing Trump’s ass for the last six years are now trying to put some distance between them and The Donald.
“Trump Is The Republican Party’s Biggest Loser,” read the headline of the Wall Street Journal editorial board. “What will Democrats do when Donald Trump isn’t around to lose elections?” the editorial read.
The New York Post featured Trump as “Trumpty Dumpty.” The subhead was, “Don (who couldn’t build a wall) had a great fall — can all the GOP’s men put the party back together again?”
It is hard to know whether discontent with Trump trickles down to the MAGA base.
It might just transfer over to the new darling of the Right, Florida’s Ron DeSantis. Or to some fascist leaders who are not so interested in who wins elections.
They are more interested in building organization among the base that can take power by other means than elections.
The MAGA Movement and Trump always have had an inside/outside strategy.
They have taken over local school boards AND planned an armed insurrection to stop the 2020 vote.
So those at the top of the GOP who are discontented with Trump can run, but they can’t hide.
And neither can we.
Trump is a lightning rod.
But the danger's not that tool, it's the lightning.
Racism's not dead, not close to it. And "racism" is a polite word for this deadly American disease, with victims of incarceration, police violence, discrimination in jobs, education, housing...
Attacks on immigrants. On immigrant rights, but also attacks on immigrants. Even our nice mayor wanted to "house" refugees in a parking lot, 3 miles from the nearest store. That floods.
Attacks on women's rights.
Hooray for Michigan, but in the last year millions of women lost access to abortion in the US. And there's no reversal on the horizon.
Attacks on health care. Social security. Living wages.
If the racists and misogynists and the xenophobes (wrong word, I know) and those that think social security and medicare and living wages need to be eliminated - if they are not MAGA - then we still have a very big problem - even if they cast aside that idiot Trump.