Is the pardon of Sherriff Joe a nail in the coffin to the Trump Presidency?

[nkpolitics1212]

Will the pardon of Sherriff Joe hurt the Republican candidates for AZ US Senate, AZ Governorship, and AZ Attorney General?

[struggle4progress]

1. .

[AJT]

2. It would take a stake through his heart.

[trueblue2007]

33. in vampire movies..... when this happens, the vampire dies in a puff of dust.

[musicblind]

3. We live in a world where nothing matters anymore.

Everything is relative, even facts have alternatives, and 35% of the country would support this man if he shot someone on 5th Avenue...

[Luciferous]

7. I hate it, but I think that's where we are now. It doesn't seem to matter what he does,

they just let him continue to do awful ridiculous things with no consequences whatsoever.

[Kentonio]

37. I'm feeling the same at the moment. Feels like that evil fuck can get away with anything.

[Sneederbunk]

4. Trump merely burnishing his own bigot credentials.

[alcibiades_mystery]

5. Good Lord

[oasis]

6. Trump applying his "many sides" approach to Arpaio pardon

Implying the judge was biased.

[johnsonsnap]

8. Supporting an elected sherrif...

proves he stands with the police and against the people.

[leftstreet]

9. I thought mocking a disabled reporter was a nail in his candidacy

nothing surprises me at this point

[LastLiberal in PalmSprings]

22. I thought "Grab 'em by the pussy" was the end of his candidacy

I don't hold any hopes about the pardon issue.

[NightWatcher]

10. I hope he sees some pushback but I doubt it'll amount to anything

[lunasun]

11. No & no none of the above

[Hamlette]

12. no

If Sandy Hook didn't bring down the NRA, all hope is lost.

[Elwood P Dowd]

13. He will have to be caught on tape committing some heinous crime

and even that might not be enough. His coffin, like his heart, is made of stone and will probably take a truckload of nails.

[haveahart]

18. Or maybe just participating in "golden showers."

[Kentonio]

39. Meh, his dumbfuck supporters will just claim its a fake.

They'd probably use it as a way to try and claim the whole Russia investigation is a frame job. I actually hope it doesn't come out, and that Mueller just nails the asshole with a solid case built on straightforward evidence.

They can release the video afterwards, just to piss on his political grave.

[EffieBlack]

14. We've been putting nails in his coffin for years

And he keeps climbing back out.

I have no confidence this will do him any real damage. It's going to take much more to reach the tipping point, I'm sorry to say. Nothing's going to change unless and until we take back one of the chambers of Congress.

[Brother Buzz]

15. Not even if the orange one stood in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shot Arpaio

We live in weird times.

[Major Nikon]

16. Probably has bigger implications

Many smarter Republicans were adamantly against a Trump presiduncy because they knew he was going to crush the credibility of the party and do irreparable damage. It certainly seems as if he is doing exactly that. The silver lining is that when Trump finally swirls the bowl for the last time, he's going to take a lot of other turds with him.

[radius777]

24. Yes, and alot of them in swing districts depend upon

attracting at least some latino support.

As long as Dems can make Trump and Arpaio the "running mate" of every GOP candidate, it will likely greatly hurt them with (even conservative) latinos.

Establishment Repubs know that they can't survive forever on the angry white vote, and that Trump's white nationalism is dooming the party with PoC for a generation.

Despite the 2016 loss (due mainly to Comey/Russians), the Obama coalition is still the ascendant coalition in American politics.

[Major Nikon]

46. Changing demographics will ultimately destroy them

They are simply insuring their own destruction because instead of becoming more progressive and going after new emerging demographics, they are relying on a strategy of chasing a larger share of a shrinking demographic.

[raccoon]

36. GreT post. Nt

[gopiscrap]

17. sure hope so

[Doreen]

19. Uhm, he has already done things that are worse so why would his

deplorables think this is bad?

[LeftInTX]

20. No, he's Teflon Don

[Doodley]

21. Yes. This is also a sign of how isolated and impotent Trump is as a president.

He can't work with Republican lawmakers and he knows many do not respect him. He can't get legislation passed, so he has to fall back on actions that he can do on his own as a show of power.

[Eyeball_Kid]

28. Every day that passes is a day that the GOP engages in mass cowardice.

[fallout87]

23. why would people

in that state oppose this? They voted for the orange doofus in the general.

[L. Coyote]

25. Once AZ's persecuted demographic rises up, the Republicxans are finished in the state.

There are a lot of roadblocks to overcome, such as access to voting.

[cilla4progress]

26. Seems to be a real

Difference of opinion here!

Does tRump go down, or is the end nigh?

[Eyeball_Kid]

27. Does the GOP want a dictator?

They're behaving as if they do.

They (and we) observe tyrannical, fascist behavior patterns in Trumpy. They know that Trumpy will flout the Rule of Law whenever he chooses. They know that Trumpy will bully and berate them and anyone else who gets in his way. We all know this. Some of us predicted 18 months ago that Trumpy would be doing exactly what he's doing now: go after the GOP when they didn't do exactly as he wanted. We knew that Trumpy would seek vengeance on ANYONE who crosses him because he's a despotic tyrant who is attempting to be Dictator of the US, and he's coming very close.

And the GOP? They're either scared shitless or they're invested in converting the US into a fascist dictatorship. Either way, they're destroying themselves as a political party and as a legislative body. And they're doing nothing about any of it.

[VOX]

42. The farther rightward they go, yes, they'd be ecstatic over a dictator.

Hell, 45's yahoo-base think he's literally God's gift to them. They're in love with their "tough-talking," rude and crude figurehead. For all their non-stop chatter about freedom, patriotism, liberty, etc., they've flipped those ideals on their head, Orwell-style.

There are a large number of nutcases on the right who would like to harvest some liberal souls, if you know what I mean.

[still_one]

29. Maybe, maybe not. Remember Barry Goldwater? He was an Arizona Senator

who voted against the Civil Rights Act.

John McCain voted against setting aside a day to honor MLK.

We all saw the disgusting way Brewer behaved toward President Obama, so I am not so sure

[LenaBaby61]

30. Is the pardon of Sheriff Joe a nail in the coffin to the Trump Presidency?

No OP, unfortunately it's not even NEAR the nail in his treasonous, racist/KKK-loving, mentally-deteriorating, putin-fueled, GOP voter-suppressed/gerrymandering, Mueller-investigated "presidency."

[Kablooie]

31. I wish - but no. Not at all.

Trumps idiot base calls all the shots for the Republican party.
Only if his base was horrified would it make any difference.

All Republicans now allow Trump's base to decide everything.
They depend on the lowest, most ignorant common denominator, rabble to decide everything for their party.
Voters with an education and a considered opinion can be discounted as useless.
Only the screaming, pitchfork wielding, imbeciles are to be listened to if you are a Republican.

[Not Ruth]

32. It may be a sign that Trump is resigning

Presidents often pardon at the end of of their term

[yuiyoshida]

34. No

He is the Republican's useful idiot

[Vogon_Glory]

35. We can hope

We can hope. I don't see Thump pardoning Arpaio as hurting support among his white support.

I don't know about the effects among Arizona's Latino voters. Do they turn out and vote like their California counterparts? Or do they sit on their backsides and let crazed Tea Party Republicans choose their state's elected officials like their Texas counterparts?

[DrDan]

38. why would it be - joe is a hero of the right

[GoCubsGo]

40. Probably not.

It could be A nail in his coffin, but not the final one. That one is likely one of many that is, or will be sitting in a box on Robert Mueller's desk. This pardon is small potatoes compared to what things we already know about.

As for hurting republican candidates in Arizona, that's hard to say. IIRC, Arizona has gone "blue" at times, such as for Bill Clinton in 1996. And, they had a Democratic governor in Janet Napolitano as recently as 2008. But, then you look at the batcrap-crazy state legislature... That state is a bit politically schizophrenic, so who the hell knows how this will all affect things. The fact that protesters far outnumbered Trump's audience in Phoenix does provide some hope that they're swinging back toward sanity.

[WhiteTara]

41. It's a nail in the coffin of the US.

[OliverQ]

43. It seems like nothing is a nail in the coffin for Trump since Republicans are ok with him destroying

the country.

[dawg]

44. No. But it might help us in Arizona.

Arizona is, perhaps, our best chance at flipping a red state blue. The craven nature of Brewer, Arpaio, and the like, is not representative of the moderate nature of the state's electorate.

[Dulcinea]

45. No.

As long as McConnell & Ryan's wet dream of dismantling the social safety net is a possibility, the GOP will prop him up. They were put in office to deliver huge tax cuts for the wealthy, & their campaign donors expect a good ROI.