It’s like the bank robbers in court blaming the security cameras for filming them, not themselves for robbing the bank.
I knew someone who at one point in his life blamed all his troubles on his sister... for having a job in a beauty salon which he and some friends had decided to rob one night. He and his pals got all liquored up so to have the courage to break into the place, realized the real money was in a safe, not in the cash register, and so curled up in a corner figuring to make the owner give up the combo when she showed up to work in the morning. Of course when she was about to put her key in the door she saw them in there sleeping it off and called the cops.
Anyway the guy first blamed it all on his sister for having a good job and later blamed it on her boss: "If she didn't hire my sister then none of this here woulda happened to begin with."
It's tempting to feel sorta that way about Trump and his raft of lemmings including party officials.... " If they hadn't gone for the glitter of Trump, none of this would have happened..." ???! But the truth is the Republicans were paving the road for a Trump 40 years ago, driving wedges between Americans to make us look askance at each other, instead of at them ripping off everything wasn't nailed down and taking a jackhammer or an oil rig to the rest of it and backing trucks up to the Treasury.
Then finally Trump comes along and whistles up the dregs of society to make a faux populist pitch at and carry the GOP across the finish line in 2016. Four years later he's managed to lose them the House, Senate and Oval Office.
But: the GOP leadership is still driving wedges even now, as the left-behinds begin to turn on all their pols, realizing they've been carrying a bunch of grand larceny specialists on their backs all these years and for what? To go to the slam for taking Trump's word he'd be right down there at the Capitol with them in a couple minutes? And then turns out he's up in that little pavilion with some crime-fam and campaign pals watching pawns invade the Capitol on TV like it's the wrap of a reality show? And now just the bit players in his show are the only ones going to jail?
Can fool some of the people all of the time. Maybe the GOP's about run out of inventory there. They gettin' ornery, and maybe even getting wise. Time will tell.
But Marjorie Taylor Greene is not one of those. She's on the inside with the lost factions of the party gone to hell. Another one of those fools thinking can ride on the back of white supremacy and land somewhere good in America.
The problem is that godforsaken, no-account rotten Republican party, not Trump and not the foot soldiers in his cult.
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