Trump's criminal rebrand of the Republican Party is complete

[marmar]

Trump's criminal rebrand of the Republican Party is complete
From the party of law and order to Trump as the leader of a mob: The GOP of 2024 looks like a cult

By CHAUNCEY DEVEGA
Senior Writer
PUBLISHED JANUARY 22, 2024 6:00AM (EST)


(Salon) Today’s Republican Party is a de facto political crime organization. Donald Trump continues to be the Big Boss. With his win in the Iowa Republican caucus, Trump further cemented his control over the Republican Party. His “rivals” are all fading away as they try to win back his favor and hope to be hired in the new regime if he takes power in 2025.

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Trump the Big Boss is now facing five trials and 91 felony charges that could result in him being sentenced to hundreds of years in prison. Trump is responding to this pressure by attacking like the de facto crime boss and aspiring dictator and apparent sociopath that he has repeatedly shown himself to be. Early Thursday morning, Trump raged on his Truth Social platform that he is above the law because "ALL PRESIDENTS MUST HAVE COMPLETE & TOTAL PRESIDENTIAL IMMUNITY..." There is a word for such a leader: dictator. He is continuing to incite violence and death against the judges and other members of law enforcement as well as the witnesses in his trials. Trump’s MAGA followers – who serve as his enforcers and foot soldiers – are following his directives as shown by the increasing incidents of violence, intimidation, and other thuggery targeting their “enemies” across the country.

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In his role as the Big Boss of the de facto Republican Party political crime organization, Trump has made himself even more wealthy. Documents recently released by House Democrats show that during the first two years of his presidency, Trump’s businesses received almost 8 million dollars from foreign governments, with the majority of the money coming from China. Reporting and other investigations have shown that Trump and his inner circle turned the presidency into a type of personal ATM and influence peddling operation potentially involving tens of millions of dollars. For example, Trump’s son-in-law Jared Kushner received 2 billion dollars from the Saudi government for his new equity firm.

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Too many people — including the news media and other professional politics watchers — have convinced themselves that once Trump was on trial, his support would inevitably dissipate, and he would be vanquished from public life as some type of pariah. The opposite has happened, however: Trump and MAGA movement are enduring if not even more ascendant as the ex-president is tied with President Biden. [Trump is also leading Biden in key swing states that Biden won in 2020]. This is more evidence of how Trumpism (like other forms of fascism) is a political and moral sickness throughout American society, a type of collective mass pathology and state of malignant normality, which is a deep cultural problem that is bigger than any one leader or party. ................(more)

https://www.salon.com/2024/01/22/criminal-rebrand-of-the-party-is-complete/

[tanyev]

1. Anonymous senior Republican, Nov. 2020: What is the downside of humoring him?

Four years later, after Trump decisively lost the presidential election to Joe Biden, an anonymous senior Republican official was still in fantasyland, infamously telling The Washington Post, “What is the downside for humoring him for this little bit of time? No one seriously thinks the results will change. He went golfing this weekend. It’s not like he’s plotting how to prevent Joe Biden from taking power on Jan. 20. He’s tweeting about filing some lawsuits, those lawsuits will fail, then he’ll tweet some more about how the election was stolen, and then he’ll leave.”

https://www.vanityfair.com/news/donald-trump-iowa-caucus-2024-election

I sure would like to know who that delusional senior Republican was and what tune they're singing now.

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

2. ETTD