Wednesday, October 26, 2016
Republican autosarcophagy
As the disaster known as Trump approaches its electoral Waterloo, the Republican Party is looking forward to the post election period. What they see is a grand division between the old party committed to obstruction and delegitimizing Democrats and the new party of Trumpoons, Teabaggers and various racist bigot scum devoted to absolute and total anarchy.
Though a victory by Mrs. Clinton is far from a foregone conclusion, what does seem clear is that the frustrations and anxieties that fueled Mr. Trump’s rise will not be fleeting. And a defeat of Mr. Trump — which he has already darkly alluded to as part of a plot to disenfranchise his supporters — could further inflame those on the right whose goal all along has been to disrupt the country’s political system.Having pissed on the petunias and shit in the punch bowl, Donald has done what he set out to do and will fly off into the sunset. With a total lack of any kind of leadership, the Republican Party having already turned upon itself will hopefully collapse into a smoking stinking heap of ruin, Conservatives will proceed to consume themselves instead of the country..
Some of the loudest voices on the right seem poised to channel that anger into one of their favorite and most frequent pursuits: eating their own.
Some in the deeply factionalized Republican Party, including Mr. Trump and some of his senior aides, are already fanning the flames for a revolt against the House speaker, Representative Paul D. Ryan of Wisconsin, once Congress reconvenes after the election. Mr. Trump, who has lashed out at the speaker for being critical of him, has privately said that Mr. Ryan should pay a price for his disloyalty, according to two people close to Mr. Trump who insisted on anonymity to describe internal campaign discussions.
Mr. Trump made his frustrations plain on Tuesday. “The people are very angry with the leadership of this party, because this is an election that we will win, 100 percent, if we had support from the top,” he said in an interview with Reuters. (He hastened to add: “I think we’re going to win it anyway.”)
Mr. Trump’s role in a postelection Republican Party is far from clear. Though some of his senior advisers have discussed the possibility that he would continue to be a vocal and visible antagonist to Mrs. Clinton — much as Sarah Palin was to President Obama — it is unclear that he would have any interest in doing so.
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