A White House meltdown in the making

[nitpicker]

http://www.bbc.com/news/world-us-canada-40952797

A White House meltdown in the making

Anthony Zurcher
North America reporter

16 August 2017

From the section US & Canada


At some point during the campaign last year, most Republicans came to the conclusion that Donald Trump was like nuclear energy. His was a force that, if properly harnessed, could power their party for a generation. And so the party embraced Mr Trump. Republican functionaries like Reince Priebus and Sean Spicer joined the White House team. The nuclear dragon would be tamed. But after nearly seven months the depth of their miscalculation may be growing too obvious to ignore. Without adequate controls, everything Mr Trump touches could end up radioactive.
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Veteran reporter Carl Bernstein says that high-level Republican, conservative, and military officials are privately saying that Mr Trump is "unfit to be president".
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As party officials stare at the glowing crater left from the president's latest meltdown, they are left wondering. What now? What next? At least so far, many Republicans have opted for the path of least resistance. They make stern condemnations of white supremacists and the hate that motivated the violence in Charlottesville - in carefully worded statements and tweets - hoping it will provide political shelter from the ongoing storm. When it comes to taking aim at the president himself, however, Mr Trump is He Who Must Not Be Named. Their criticism is oblique and the condemnation implied. They may whisper uncomfortable views in private, but publicly they watch their words.
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Why draw the ire of a president known to keep close tabs on his friends and foes, Republicans may think, when the party's core voters largely still stand by his side, even through this latest political furore.

It's a calculation, however, that Mr Trump's corporate chieftans didn't have to make. After they abandoned the White House in growing numbers, the president was forced to announce his economic advisory boards were being shuttered.
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[Bernardo de La Paz]

1. Democrats must use every opportunity to weld together the Trump & Republican brands

Trump (Republican)

or

tRump (Republicon)


Mitch McConnell, Trump's Republican leader in the Senate, ....

[maxrandb]

2. I simply call them ReTRUMPlicans n/t

[ouija]

3. It shows

How completely bankrupt this party has become. Their only hope is for Democrats to win the House and Senate so that impeachment can move forward.

[Dustlawyer]

4. When Trump ultimately crashes and burns we should say to the Republicans,

"We begged for you to stop this, we asked for you to stand up, yet you said nothing." "You allowed Trump to cause untold harm to our country to further your ambition and those of your mega-Donors, you put personal ambition ahead of country!" "You are un-American!"

Every campaign against these dirt bag incumbents MUST include statements like this!

[FiveGoodMen]

5. I sort of agree except...

Except that telling that to oh-so-deserving voters will just make a lot of them defensive. They'll dig in their heals and refuse to take the blame (which, again, they SO deserve).

I think our pitch has to be more along the lines of "look how much better we can all do".

Of course, that will bring us back to the need for really inspiring candidates at all levels.

People who can talk the talk and really mean it.

Our party has to do more than just fund-raising and hoping for the best.

[jpak]

6. Tickling the Nuclear Dragon is lethal

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_Slotin