'The GOP continues to rot as a political party, as a governing institution, and as a moral entity.'
And it's only going to get worse for Trump, right?
His business has been found guilty of criminal fraud. Investigators have found more classified documents in a storage unit near Mar-a-Lago. A criminal case is pending in Georgia. The January 6 committee is likely to make a criminal referral to the Justice Department, whose special counsel is already building a criminal case against him. Several leaders of the January 6 attack have already been convicted of seditious conspiracy.
Even the kingpins of the GOP, including the rightwing media tycoon Rupert Murdoch, have switched their allegiance away from him—to Florida governor Ron DeSantis or Ted Cruz or another GOP hopeful. So why hasn't the Republican Party as a whole tipped? Why aren't almost all Republican lawmakers publicly disavowing the former sociopath-in-chief? put it bluntly last week"I think we've got, I don't know, 12 people or more that would like to be president, that are thinking of running in 2024. If President Trump continues in his campaign, I'm not sure any one of them can make it through and beat him.
Which means the GOP continues to rot as a political party, as a governing institution, and as a moral entity. That may be good for Democrats in 2024, but in the larger sense it's bad for us all., is the Chancellor’s Professor of Public Policy at the University of California, Berkeley, and a senior fellow at the Blum Center for Developing Economies.
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