Saving Face

CURIOSER AND CURIOSER. Not merely Trump's progressively crazy behavior, his increasing criminality, but the support of his followers, which becomes more sociologically and psychologically fascinating with each revelation of presidential misbehavior. A handful of congressional republicans have come clean, have courageously pointed out that this situation is well beyond any derived benefit from circling the wagons and defending Trump. This Ukranian connection with Trump is, as they say, troubling, alarming, disturbing. Retired Senator Jeff Flake claims that if the vote were taken in privately, secretly, at least thirty five republican senators would vote to impeach Trump. But would they vote to remove him? Any republican turning on Trump loses the support base of the republican party, which, it appears, will largely go down in flames with their leader, rather than throw him under teh bus, for their own survival, as they did with Nixon in 1974. Eventually they will again, but not yet. Trump supporters will have to figure out how to get out gracefully without losing face, many are even now doubtless undergoing that process; we anti-Trumpers can help them, the process, and the country by making it easy for them to do it - to turn on Trump, and to save face. Tell them how courageous they are, that sort of thing. It is stark raving amazing that there are still so many who support Trump. This Ukrainian thing is beyond question. Dude was asking for help from a foreign country in getting reelected. That, we simply cannot have. Correct? The "arguments" being put forth by the right in defense of trump are already hilariously crazy, blatantly false, desperate, and will only become more so. You cannot possibly be a Trump supporter, sane, and believe that his conversation with the Ukrainian president was "perfect". To do so requires a great deal of self deception, at which conservatives in general and Trump supporters in particular are demonstrably adept. Now may be the best time to invest in a newer, larger pop corn popper. Trump and his gang are not going to go down without a fight, and neither are his millions of self deceiving supporters. But down to defeat they shall inevitably go, and just watching it happen, the movement dying one face saving person at at time, will prove fascinating, worth far more than the price of admission.