A Monster Of Their Own Creation

It's officially the Trump Party.

Now, I say "officially" because later this evening the last somewhat sane Republican, Liz Cheney, will be exiled from Congress via a likely primary loss to a Trump-backed GOP challenger in her home state of Wyoming.

Cheney's crime? Speaking ill of Cheeto Mussolini. Of having a desire to hold him accountable for the January 6th insurrection. Of publicly stating that an outgoing president should not lead an insurrection against the United States government. Of wanting a world in which the United States adheres to its founding principles, chief among them is the peaceful transition of power. By being one of two prominent Republicans on the January 6th Committee, Cheney has put a bullseye on her back, one that has earned the ire of both Trump and the Republican Party as a whole. It wasn't enough for the Wyoming GOP to censure her in February of 2021 or the GOP to remove Cheney as conference chair in May of that year after being one of ten congressional Republicans to vote for Trump's second impeachment. No, the GOP wanted her gone, vanquished for daring to question the actions of Il Douche. With GOP House leadership publicly backing Cheney's opponent, it seems inevitable that Cheney's time in office has run its course as she is now a pariah in a the very same party that elevated and revered her very own father less than 20 years ago. 

In reality, it has been the Trump Party since 2016 when the GOP sold its soul for a two-bit huckster from Queens. But with Cheney's loss tonight along with her fellow anti-Trumper Adam Kinzinger choosing not to run for re-election, the Republican Party will be completely and utterly devoid of any person of character willing to stand up to Donald Trump. Sure, there might be the occasional crossover of a Lisa Murkowski or a Mitt Romney for a federal judge or a seemingly uncontroversial piece of legislation but other than that, the Party of Lincoln has undeniably hitched its horse to the Trump wagon. They are pot-committed and nothing Trump has already done or that will come to light in the coming days and weeks will convince them to abandon their chosen messiah.

This is what happens when one party gets hellbent on political power. Today's GOP has sold its soul for a bloated, bloviating, bankrupt man who was born on third base and still struggles to make it home. The Party of Lincoln went on in on this man for reasons that history will study for generations to come. But the crux of their commitment was that in Trump they saw one of their own. Somebody who shared their distorted world view. Someone who vilified all the people they vilified. Someone who cheated on his taxes the way they wished they could cheat on theirs. Someone who saw women as objects and homegrown businesses as ones that could easily be stiffed and crushed by a team of high-priced lawyers. Trump was a man's man and his lack of political correctness was inspiring for a political party more and more annoyed with America's growing acceptance and empathy. In Trump, the GOP saw someone who was the perfect antithesis to the previous 8 years of Barack Hussein Obama, a calm, cool, and collected family man whose meticulous and measured governing was critical in bringing back the United States from the brink of disaster. 

Over the last 6 years Trumpism has become the dominant GOP ideology. They are embracing it, rather than trying to hide it. Whereas a decade ago candidates like Herschel Walker or Doug Mastriano would be way too controversial to survive a GOP primary, they now not only win primaries but they do so with Trump and eventually the RNC's endorsement. The type of allegations that caused a massive scandal against Gary Hart in the 1988 Democratic primary would today not simply disqualify a Republican candidate but GOP voters would likely be even more likely to vote for him had he not engaged in the solicitous act in the first place. There is no bottom for these candidates and the fact that they have to now compete for Donald Trump's approval means that the raunchier and more obscene they are, the more likely they are to land The Donald's powerful endorsement. It is a race to the bottom and it is a far cry for the party that once claimed itself to be the party of family values. With Liz Cheney gone, the transformation is finally complete.

There can be no doubt of this now with the devolution of the GOP being public for everyone to see. The 118th United States Congress will begin in January of 2023 without a single member of the Party of Lincoln being able to say anything bad about the most unpatriotic, unintelligent, and uncouth man ever to occupy the Oval Office. His mishandling of nuclear secrets? If the last week is any indication, this will be simply one more instance of the GOP seeing no evil, hearing no evil, and speaking no evil when it comes to Donald J. Trump. They're too far down the rabbit hole. He is their Frankenstein. At this point, after being on the loose for 6 years, they can only hope that their self-created monster minimizes the number of villagers he kills due to his actions. Because the GOP is long past the point of trying to control Trump. They are long past the point of trying to reign him in. They need him and if there just happens to be collateral damage than so be it. He is an out-of-control monster and nobody in the GOP village has the balls to stand up to him anymore. When he inevitably falls, he will undoubtedly taking the entire party down with him. 

And they will have absolutely, 100% deserved it.