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Just to prove yesterday's point



This is a companion piece to yesterday's post.

For one brief, shining moment, House Speaker Kevin McCarthy had found his testes. How? Like this:
[D]uring an interview with CNBC, Mr. McCarthy wondered whether it would be good for the party to have Mr. Trump as its presidential nominee given his legal troubles.

“Can he win that election? Yeah, he can win that election,” Mr. McCarthy said. “The question is, is he the strongest to win the election; I don’t know that answer.”
Now, this is nothing out of the blue. This isn't some earthshattering piece of political analysis. Anyone with two functioning braincells could posit that a candidate facing multiple criminal indictments is weaker than a candidate who isn't. This shouldn't be controversial. Mr. McCarthy is one of the leaders of the Republican Party, and it should be his job to position his party to win next year's election. So, for a normal person, this isn't a profile in courage. But for a Republican? He should have stamps come out in his honor.

Of course, the mistake Mr. McCarthy made was in thinking. Thinking that he was a leader. Thinking that he had some role to play in the party. Merely thinking. The result was predictable.
The comment irked Mr. Trump’s allies, setting off an urgent effort by Mr. McCarthy to walk it back. He contacted Breitbart News, the right-wing news outlet, to offer an exclusive interview in which he said the former president was “stronger today than he was in 2016” and blamed the media for “attempting to drive a wedge between President Trump and House Republicans.”
The groveling continued apace. 
Mr. McCarthy also called Mr. Trump Tuesday, according to three people familiar with the exchange, two of whom characterized the conversation as an apology.
Donald Trump is the GOP leader. Not Mr. McCarthy. Not Senator Mitch McConnell. He will be the leader of that collection of authoritarian misfits until he is buried, either in prison or literally. Want proof? Here you go:
Not the Onion™. 

And why the devotion? Quite simple. It's not "America" which Trump put first, but white America.
(Hat tip to our own GovChris for sharing these tweets.)

That blackity Black Barack Obama broke the collective delusions of a segment of white America, and ever since  it has been seeking a champion to exact revenge on a country which no longer fears it. They found that dark, pustulent knight in Donald Trump. And it will ride or die with him, because for them they feel as if they face extinction. The only thing facing extinction is their unearned privilege, but that's enough. They fear they will be visited with what they've visited on others, and they know they wouldn't come out well in that eventuality.

As others, including Joe Biden, have said: We are at an inflection point. And Trump's supporters will do everything to scupper it. Sadly for them, the world over which they lorded is dying. They don't have to die with it.

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