Just to highlight how much this made me laugh with horror:
So I have great confidence in my intelligence people, but I will tell you that President Putin was extremely strong and powerful in his denial today. – President Trump
To which the chorus should be, Yeah, so what? It should come as no surprise that Senator McCain, for all this faults, nailed it:
Sen. John McCain called President Donald Trump‘s joint appearance with Russian leader Vladimir Putin on Tuesday “one of the most disgraceful performances by an American president in memory,” and said Trump had “abased himself … abjectly before a tyrant.” [CNBC]
Any GOP Congressperson could have issued such a statement and greatly repaired their reputation within the greater United States populace. How many will do so? This will be the measure of the continued patriotic allegiance of the Republican Party to the American polity.
In the meantime, I’ve noted from time to time that certain candidates for political office have tightly clutched President Trump to their political breasts, even proclaiming themselves to be more Trump than Trump. Will they dare to disown him now? Or, as it appears they have little political consciousness of their own, will they discover that Trump is a concrete block rather than the life vest they envisioned as they swam through the political ocean in search of the power they so desperately seek?
