Kevin McCarthy - the dummy that came alive- has no credibility and GOP is stuck with TFG

Echo opinion by Karen Gardner, published in the Greenville Recorder, a Massachusetts newspaper:

Trump is the failed leader of the failed seditious Trumpziism 

Maybe this is it, that moment when the Trump-adoration bubble has finally burst. I’ve been waiting for this moment for a long time, ever since 2015, when Trump came gliding down that escalator in New York to announce his run for the Republican presidential nomination. During that speech, he made a big splash about rapists and drug dealers flooding across our southern border. 

And, (unbelievable!) as you know, he used fear to win that nomination and the presidency. 

Then, Trump lost the next election, leaving chaos, lies, violence and conspiracy theories in his wake, while nearly taking our democracy with him on his way out the door.

Failure squared -  #TFG Trump stamped "flop" on the dummy that came alive in Kevin McCarthy. Now the Growing Old Party (GOP) is stuck with the dRumph!

Trumpzi already announced his intention to run for the job again in 2024. At the same time, there’s a lot of grumbling and blaming going on as Rep ublican Party leaders and strategists try to figure out what happened to their great big beautiful red (drip-drip!)

💧 wave, what they believed would sweep them into control of both houses of Congress, in the November, 2022, midterm elections.

Some are even blaming the death of the red wave on Donald for endorsing so many candidates whose only qualification for the office they ran for (and lost) was that they believed in and repeated every lie that came out of his mouth: that our elections cannot be trusted and that he really won the 2020 election despite the endless evidence to the contrary.

Isn’t it time that Republicans acknowledge that Donald Trump is a liability, not an asset to them? That’s been clear for years. In Donald’s world everything is about him. He was the star of every rally he attended for those poor losing candidates, giving them only a few minutes of attention. Then he’d spend another hour complaining about the election that was stolen from him two long years ago and how unfairly he’s been treated. Poor little Donald.

Let’s not forget that Republicans can’t take all the credit for their dismal showing in last week’s election. 

In fact, the Democratic activists across the country worked extremely hard for months to get people to register and to vote. They wrote millions of postcards to voters, worked on phone and text banks, and knocked on doors to make sure people had all the information they needed to participate in the election. And it paid off.

So, what will happen now? It seems pretty clear that enough of Trump’s supporters turned away from him last week, looking instead for stability and experience when marking their ballots. Maybe Republican leaders will decide to look forward rather than focusing on the past which is chock full of Donald.

I worry, though, that Republican leaders will do what they did after the January 6th insurrection in 2021. When Trump was putting their lives at risk by provoking his followers, some of them armed, to attack the U.S. Capitol that day, they were furious and begged him to please call off the mob. For a brief time afterward, they spoke out against him, but before long, almost all of them returned to their usual spineless Trump adoration.

Even when they had the chance to impeach the man, they chose him over our country. Had the Senate Republicans voted to impeach, they would have prevented him from ever holding federal office again, but now they’re stuck with him. And so are we.

But maybe the spell has been broken, maybe his supporters can see the man for what he is and has always been — a self-serving narcissist who cares nothing for those who adore him. He has no policies, no plans, no programs to improve the lives of his supporters. He seeks the presidency for no other purpose than to hold power, to be in charge of everyone. And to feel the love, of course.

Will Republicans be brave enough this time to throw Trump out? It seems to me that if they want to have any chance of winning elections (fairly, that is) in the future, they better do just that. I’m guessing that Republican voters, like most voters, want their leaders to pay attention to the things that are important to them, like fixing roads, improving health care and lowering its costs, preserving their right to make personal decisions about their lives, supporting their families, and keeping them safe.

During the four years of Trump’s presidency, he didn’t do much beyond adding $1.9 trillion to the budget deficit by cutting taxes for the wealthy and corporations, not for regular people. Yes, the government spent billions in response to the pandemic, but his constant ignorant and dangerous interventions made handling that health crisis so much worse.

So, isn’t it time his supporters turn their backs on Donald, quit sending him money in response to his endless requests, and start to look elsewhere for leadership? The election results show that this has begun, but there’s other evidence as well.

A friend recently told me that their neighbor, a seriously devoted Trump supporter, abruptly removed from her front yard last week every single piece of her Trump display of lawn signs and ornaments. That’s quite a change after seven years of Trump loving.

Maybe the spell has been broken. Maybe Republican leaders are taking down their Trump signs as well. I can only hope.

Karen Gardner lives in Haydenville, in Hampshire County, Massachusetts .