Identifying the Leader

IN A SPEECH just the other day, Donald Trump made it clear who the leader is, as he announced himself the leader of the Republican party. Its hard to argue with him. Nobody did. Not a single Republican, including Nikki Haley Liz Cheney, or Marjorie Taylor Greene so much as whimpered a sigh of disagreement or protest, and, if anybody had, it would have been one of those three. The point is; the die are cast. the Republican party, as well as the conservative community in general and almost all of the evangelical Christian community within, has made its bed,and is now lying in it, and, by choosing to retain Donald Trump as their leader rather than take the perhaps more expedient path of putting him out to pasture, will, over time, experience the consequences of their choices and actions, as surely we all do. Although it is difficult to find or name a more reprehensible person more unfit for leadership than Donald Trump, were the Repbulcians indeed to jettison Trump, who knows whom they would replace him with? Quite possibly, someone even more undesirable than even Don the Con. EVen while a perfectly appropriate, excllent candidate like NIkki Haley offers to perform exactly that service, her offer is, seemingly, in the process of being rejected by Republican nation at large. Further proof of the lack of judgement, intelligence, and discernment among Amrican consrvatives. Rejecting a perfect opportunity to move beyond the disaster of the Trump era, and elevate a candidate for president who would probably defeat president Biden, and lead the Republican party back to some semblance of santy, and, just possibly, to a Republicn majority in congress (perish the thought). Abortion, whether to elect a criminal demagogue,and dealing with the border immigration crisis figure to be among the three most discussed issues leading up to the November election. Thereofre both parties are falling all over themselves in Congress to negotiatie a border strategy skufficiently acceptable to both parties to pass and become law. Biden has promised to sign almost anything, nowing how his low approval ratign is closely tied to the surge ofundocumented immigrants during his presidency. But if the current government succeeds in passing and implementing meaningful immigration reform before the election, the sudden lack of an issue will take the wind out of Trump's sails. for that reason, he used his declaration of party leadership as an opportunity to insist he is opposed to any bill which involves even the slightest hint of compromise by Republicans. The extremist conservatives in Congress support him in this nefarious perfidy. For the Republicans to cast thier lot with Trupat this point is the best thing that could have happened to the Democratic party, and the hopes of progressives running for office this fall. No only Trump's legal batles begin to reflect more and more negatively on him, but his own behavior on the campaign trail, attacking other Repbulcians as well as Democrats will only alienate more voters. Trump's base has hardened into a dense nucleus of a core, but is not growing, and will never grow again, but will only shrink henceforth, even if slowly, eroding and flaking around the edges. So be it. We've already waited this long, surely we can wait a while longer for Trump's inevitable political demise.