{"id":42918,"date":"2019-10-03T12:23:55","date_gmt":"2019-10-03T19:23:55","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=42918"},"modified":"2019-10-03T15:53:05","modified_gmt":"2019-10-03T22:53:05","slug":"devotion-to-the-cult-of-trump-risks-the-gop-having-no-presidential-candidate-in-2020","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newscorpse.com\/ncWP\/?p=42918","title":{"rendered":"Devotion to the Cult of Trump Risks the GOP Having No Presidential Candidate in 2020"},"content":{"rendered":"

Time is running out. It’s running out for Donald Trump as Congress is on a fast track toward impeachment. And as the walls close in around him, he is becoming ever more unhinged and incoherent<\/a><\/strong>. He’s even taken to crying “coup”<\/a><\/strong> about the constitutional process for considering the removal of a corrupt leader. It’s a sad spectacle that diminishes the stature of the nation.<\/p>\n

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But time also running out for the Republican Party that seems to have no strategy for a post-impeachment electoral landscape. As the prospects for impeachment grow by the hour – mainly due to Trump’s own panicky and desperate outbursts – the GOP continues to fortify their bunker as it is under siege from all directions. Even the Senior Legal Analyst at Fox News, Andrew Napolitano, is now saying<\/a><\/strong> that Trump’s “conversation [with Ukrainian President Zelensky] manifested both criminal and impeachable behavior.”<\/em> Nevertheless, Republicans are all in on Dear Leader Trump and if he goes down, well dammit, they’re all going down with him.<\/p>\n

The 2020 election is just a little more than a year away. Deadlines will soon be expiring for challengers to declare their candidacy. So what happens if Trump is impeached and the Republican Party has no one on the ballot running against whoever the Democratic nominee is? Pence will not automatically become the GOP’s candidate. There is a process for determining that which we all know as primaries. But the Republican National Committing has been working to cancel primaries<\/a><\/strong> in order to stifle any opposition to Trump. They also recently tightened the rules<\/a><\/strong> to “squelch dissent at the Republican National Convention next year.”<\/em><\/p>\n

Currently there are three Republicans, other than Trump, running for the GOP nomination: Bill Weld, Joe Walsh, and Mark Sanford. The only reasonably qualified candidate among them is Weld, a two-term governor of Massachusetts. But other Republicans with qualifications and national name ID are keep their distance. They include Ohio Gov. John Kasich, former Arizona Sen. Jeff Flake, former South Carolina governor and UN ambassador, Nikki Haley, Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, and former Tennessee Sen. Bob Corker.<\/p>\n

All of this leaves Trump feeling pretty cocky. He tweeted Thursday<\/a><\/strong> that he has “95% Approval Rating in the Republican Party.”<\/em> Which won’t help him in the least if he’s found to be guilty of impeachable crimes. After all, he isn’t President of the GOP. His national approval rating is still mired in the low 40’s (it’s never hit 50). And even his favorite pollster, the utterly disreputable and biased Rasmussen, shows him dropping six points in the last week (to 47) as impeachment heats up.<\/p>\n

The Cult of Trump is in full force in the Republican precincts of America. They simply will not stand up for the principles of law and order and patriotism that they once heralded as their party’s brand. Not if that means going against their totalitarian boss. So if Trump is impeached, and there is little or no time to field alternatives in the primaries, the party may wind up invoking some arcane rule and shoving whatever candidate the party elites choose down the throats of their voters.<\/p>\n

And Trump isn’t making it any easier for them. On Thursday morning, Trump admitted to a national television audience that he asked Zelensky to interfere in an American election by digging up dirt on Joe Biden. That’s actually one of the anticipated articles of impeachment. And to add fuel to this dumpster fire, he added a request for China to do the same. Let that sink in. Trump wants China – a nation known for its corruption and absence of any ethical legal system – to conduct an investigation\/smear campaign on an American citizen and candidate for president. That should go down well with voters. And still the GOP is marching lock-step with Trump, even though he may not even be their candidate next year. The whole party seems to be as confused and incompetent as Trump.<\/p>\n

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How Fox News Deceives and Controls Their Flock:
\nFox Nation vs. Reality: The Fox News Cult of Ignorance.<\/a>
\nAvailable now at Amazon.<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n

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"Russia if you're listening…"<\/p>\n

Trump is STILL illegally soliciting foreign governments to help him steal elections. And right out in the open. #ImpeachTrumpNow<\/a> https:\/\/t.co\/rgs8OXoqa0<\/a><\/p>\n

— News Corpse (@NewsCorpse) October 3, 2019<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n