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Melanie Zanona, CNN, writes, "The House GOP's plan to win back power is becoming increasingly centered on one man: Donald J. Trump.
"On Thursday, House Minority Leader Kevin McCarthy became the latest in a parade of Republicans
to make the pilgrimage to a Trump-owned property seeking the former President's support, while scores of GOP candidates have been invoking Trump's name and image to boost their campaign coffers, which are filling up at record rates."
This is a very strange phenomenon. Why? On Trump's watch, within a span of two years, his party lost control of the House, Senate, and the Presidency. Why in the world are Republican leaders gravitating to a loser?
The answer is two-fold.
First, uninformed, intelligence challenged grassroots Republicans still support Trump despite the enormous losses to the party. If they listen at all to what is happening around them, their use Fox News and other right wing sources exclusively. They avoid responsible news sources because Donald told them it is "fake news." Consequently, they believe Trump won the election, and they know nothing about the House and Senate except that they have been liberal as of late. They don't learn, and they don't want to learn.
Second, Trump is out to destroy the Republican Party because, of course, they are responsible for the election defeats -- certainly not him. Trump is using his obedient and gullible flock to accomplish that goal. Republican leaders are forced to pay homage to Trump or lose in the primary to someone who is. In terms of general elections where Trump is enormously unpopular, it is Catch-22 for Republicans.
Among all respondents in the latest poll, Trump was favorable for 32 per cent of American voters.
There is another factor to this that makes the matter all the more confusing.
The reader is reminded that the Russian dictator, Vladimir Putin, tried to help Trump become President in 2016 and the product of their cyber war became public on a daily basis courtesy of WikiLeaks. How much this helped Trump is unknown. The fact that the communist ruler of Russia wanted Trump to be President and helped him again in 2020 is known.
The reader is reminded Trump at Helsinki in July 2018 rejected American intelligence and accepted the word of the Russian instead.
Currently, Trump seems hell bent on destroying America's free elections, refusing to accept his huge defeat in the popular and Electoral College vote, declaring to this day that he was the winner of the election. There is zero substantiation of that view. 60 court decisions and the Supreme Court went against him, as did his own A.G. Still he persists in his fight to destroy America's faith in free elections.
In an attempt to overrule the results of the election, Trump then planned and executed an insurrection against our government on Jan. 6.
No one is aware of any relationship between Trump and Putin. We are aware that Putin approves of nearly everything Trump has done and is doing, which may include the destruction of a major American political party. The results of that would be catastrophic.
Still Republicans follow their leader
... perhaps over an abyss into oblivion.