Right winger Erick Erickson is mad:
But there is no evidence [President Trump] is invested in the Republican Party’s success, only his own. Those interests overlapped in 2016 and in 2024. They do not overlap now, and a party whose leader is optimizing for something other than its survival had better have a message of its own.
Well, yes. I think that’s been obvious for years. But Erickson is not alone, a lot of folks keep trying to interpret President Trump through a prism from decades ago. In order to understand and predict what comes next with President Trump, one first must accept the proposition that the President is mentally ill, pathologically narcissistic to quote a friend, and taking that first step when one’s Party nominated and elected him is tough on the old ego – it was incredibly bad judgment of, admittedly, an actor, by a lot of Republicans. It’s enough to make one question their judgment.
My guess for what is coming is the complete melt-down of the Republicans in this and the next elections. As Trump flies away on Trump One in January 2029, he’ll send his resignation letter to the Republicans, announce same on whatever social media platform he’s using at the time, and then a letter to the American people claiming he deliberately set fire to the Republican Party to show himself as a Great American, and, by the way, he’s now joining the Democrats as their Party Leader.
Quite possibly the Democrats will then also meltdown.
Will the replacement Parties be ready to go by then?
