Tuesday, July 31, 2018

The Congressional GOP Is Suicidal

Heading into this summer, I warned that Congressional Republicans were incapable of implementing a truly transformative legislative agenda that would support the America First principles that Donald Trump campaigned on during the 2016 campaign.

By ignoring the Trump agenda - even actively working against it - the Congressional GOP is suicidal, as the Democrats and their psycho socialist base are galvanized and the GOP is not.

The larger purpose behind the Congressional GOP's legislative malfeasance is that many Republicans do not want Trump to succeed.

Earlier this year, Congressional Republicans managed to goad President Trump into signing a ridiculous $1.3 trillion spending bill.

As Bovard assesses in her excellent piece, the "'Trump voters' - so defined as those who supported Trump but do not identify as Republicans - are missing in action.

President Trump appears to have figured out GOP duplicity and is lighting a proverbial fire under their hides: he is demanding that Congress either fully fund the border wall or suffer a government shutdown.

Even if the GOP in Congress did consent to building Trump's wall, it would likely demand greater government spending from Trump.

https://spectator.org/the-congressional-gop-is-suicidal/ 

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