It included elected Republicans and his base voters, and was elegant in its simplicity.
He promised that he’ d make life miserable for Blacks, Hispanics, women, queer people, academics, and people living in big cities. The deal was first offered when he came down the infamous escalator in 2015, and repeated in rally after rally, campaign commercial after campaign commercial, for the past decade.
He also promised to make life better for his white male base, saying he’ d“ end inflation on day one,”“ make America affordable again,”“ slash energy and electricity prices by half within 12 months,”“ unleash American energy,” and“ get prices down” on“ groceries, cars, everything.”
In exchange, he asked them to let him steal as much as he could from the public treasury, get away with past and present crimes, ignore his marital infidelities, and look away from his associations with child rapists, his Miss Teen USA Pageant, and Jeffrey Epstein.
His loyal followers did their part. They ignored his payoffs to a porn star and a Playboy bunny, his bragging about sexually assaulting women, his adjudication as a rapist, his 34 convictions for stealing the 2016 presidential election by fraud, his hustling made-in-China campaign swag, and even the hundreds of millions he and his third wife made selling them nearly worthless digital tokens.
Loyal preachers and even business leaders groveled before him, basking in the glow of his base’ s love. Apple’ s Tim Cook embarrassed himself and his company by slobbering over Trump as he handed him a chunk of 24 karat gold. Thirteen billionaires in his cabinet simpered when the cameras came on, repeatedly and pathetically reassuring Donald of his brilliance and nobility.
Mike Johnson engineered a coverup of Trump’ s association with Jeffery Epstein, and Republicans averted their eyes as Ghislaine Maxwell was moved from a real prison to a Club Fed where she lives in an unlocked dormitory and can entertain herself with tennis and puppy-training.
They disregarded his attempt to overturn the 2020 election, his placing his own personal lawyers in charge of justice in America, and his subsequent weaponization of the Justice Department against their own former lifelong Republican peers.
Now they’ re defending his defilement of the White House, his depraved sons taking billions from foreign governments, and his betrayal of Ukraine in his never-ending deference to Vladimir Putin.
Republican politicians who for years warned about“ jackbooted thugs” as they waved“ Don’ t Tread On Me” flags are suddenly fine with masked secret police openly and brutally beating American citizens as they build a massive network of concentration camps across the country.
It’ s been a good run and a great grift. But scams like this— even well-engineered ones with the power of a corrupted government behind them— usually don’ t last.
Nixon went down in flames, and his attorney general went to prison. Warren Harding’ s health was destroyed, many biographers claim, by his association with Teapot Dome. Bill Clinton lost his law license and was impeached for his lies about his affair with Monica Lewinsky.
Now, it appears, it’ s Donald Trump’ s turn to pay the price for his cozenage. Although all but a small handful of elected Republicans don’ t yet seem to realize it, Trump is losing his grip. Four Republicans in the House of Representatives are demanding to know the details of his association with child rapists. Five Republican senators yesterday voted to block his illegal and unconstitutional tariffs against Brazil.
Several Republican senators have voiced concerns about his illegal murder of“ drug traffickers” in the Caribbean. The public is aghast at his destruction of the historic“ people’ s” White House.
His approval in every category is underwater. Seven million or more people poured into the streets two weeks ago to defy him. His ICE and CPB thugs are pursued by citizens with whistles and apps to identify their locations.
Instead of fixing inflation, his tariffs have caused it to take off again. Instead of increasing employment, jobs are increasingly hard to find.
Instead of making groceries and housing more affordable, Trump’ s policies have made things worse.
Instead of cutting energy prices, his killing off Biden’ s green energy projects in exchange for fossil fuel campaign money is jacking electricity prices sky-high nationwide.
About the only thing holding up so far is the stock market, and most of that is being driven by an AI boom( which may be a bubble) that started under Biden; 21 states are in or near fullblown recession now as a result of Trump’ s tariffs.
Republican politicians openly worry about the 2026 elections as they desperately try to rig them with outrageous and
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