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Why Trumps Loyalists Should Be Terrified...And Why the Power Brokers Are Already Sharpening Their Knives
But heres the thing about authoritarian movements:
Loyalty is never loyalty.
Its leverage.
Trump was the vehicle.
Trump was the chaos engine.
Trump was the useful monster dragging their agenda across broken glass.
But Donald Trump is no longer a vehicle.
Hes a liability.
More importantly hes a liability they can no longer control.
Hes volatile.
Hes reckless.
Hes legally radioactive.
And hes infected with the one disease the GOP donor class fears more than inflation more than immigration more than a Democratic landslide:
Uncontainable exposure.
When the cost of protecting the authoritarian becomes greater than the cost of eliminating him
the system eliminates him.
Quietly.
Efficiently.
With a smile so polite it feels like a threat.
And that process has now begun.
More at:
https://www.jackhopkinsnow.com/p/the-gop-is-about-to-devour-its-own?utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web
What stage are we in?
Irish_Dem
(78,557 posts)He is totally expendable.
His crazy is why they wanted him, his crazy is why he must now go.
Frankenstein can't control the monster they created,
Irish_Dem
(78,557 posts)mercuryblues
(16,079 posts)It is cheaper for the rich to pay taxes, than to "donate" to the gluttonous pig.
Fiendish Thingy
(21,724 posts)You mean to tell me, after the hundreds of defeatist doomer threads Ive read telling me the exact opposite, that Trump is NOT omnipotent, and the people are not powerless?
mercuryblues
(16,079 posts)The ouster is starting from the elite. It may be a slow roll, but it will build up into an avalanche.
usonian
(22,854 posts)Will it be at home?

or TO GO?

Donman
(39 posts)Let them devour Trump. May they all suffer from ptomaine poisoning. They've already poisoned our country with their heartlessness.
NotASurfer
(2,360 posts)Several will hurt themselves gorging, and gorge only because they know deep down it must be done to own up.
May it be disgusting, disturbing, and glorious to behold