Doing the Math: Flake, McCain, Corker, and Trump

IT WOULD BE A GOOD NAME for a law firm. Instead, its three conservative republican United States Senators who have had quite enough of the behavior of the person whose name is last on the list, the President. The least articulate, most narcissistic, least honorable, most corrupt, and least emotionally mature president in American history. Less articulate than Andrew Johnson, more narcissistic than Kennedy, less honorable than Nixon, more corrupt than Harding. And that's going some, considering the competition. All three of the Senators will soon be gone from the Senate. They'll all be going to a far better place. They are not the only republicans disenchanted with their party's leader, disgusted with Trump's behavior; they are merely the only ones who have spoken out publicly. Plus, of course, former president Bush. There will be others, jumping off the sinking ship. They will emerge when they no longer calculate that doing so would do them political damage, which it probably already would not. They will speak truth to power when they can tolerate no more lies, attacks, accusations, depravity from the boorish, crass president. Three republicans fed up with the nonsense plus forty eight democrats make a Senate majority, further diminishing the already tenuous chances that any part of Trump's agenda, whatever it is on any given day, will ever pass. For that we should be grateful that America always comes to its senses, even if it takes awhile. After the 2018 mid term elections the math will only get worse for the forces of Breitbart Steve Bannon. America will at last trump chaos with common sense, and drain the swamp of the stench of right wing billionaire populism, and make America great again, as it was before the carnival barker came to town and insanity prevailed. It begins to appear as if we won't be keeping Muslims out and kicking undocumented undocumented Mexicans by the million, and won't be building the great wall of Trump. We might not even end up giving huge tax breaks to the wealthy and calling it middle class tax relief, and trickle down Trumponomics, the long discredited supply side neo-liberal economics of Reagan and the far right, will trickle down the drain with the rest of the far right swamp. Obamacare might never become Trumpcare, and America might be made great again, as it was not so very long ago.