The column from WaPo's Gene Robinson that upset Trump - last four paragraphs of yesterday's column [View all]

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https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2025/02/06/trump-senate-republicans/?pwapi_token=eyJ0eXAiOiJKV1QiLCJhbGciOiJIUzI1NiJ9.eyJyZWFzb24iOiJnaWZ0IiwibmJmIjoxNzM4ODE4MDAwLCJpc3MiOiJzdWJzY3JpcHRpb25zIiwiZXhwIjoxNzQwMjAwMzk5LCJpYXQiOjE3Mzg4MTgwMDAsImp0aSI6IjdlMjUwYzk3LWIzMTAtNDYwYS04NjE5LWIyMmEzMmY4MjRiNyIsInVybCI6Imh0dHBzOi8vd3d3Lndhc2hpbmd0b25wb3N0LmNvbS9vcGluaW9ucy8yMDI1LzAyLzA2L3RydW1wLXNlbmF0ZS1yZXB1YmxpY2Fucy8ifQ.B1qVV4cxBL_QpNPf7j8beer30T417d3KxhYbTfFgXPw

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The GOP’s failure goes far beyond Senate confirmations. With Trump’s blessing, the unelected and unaccountable Musk is trying to decimate and ultimately destroy the nonpartisan civil service, without a peep of protest from Republicans. Foreign aid programs that long enjoyed bipartisan support have been axed — and only Democrats complain. Trump seizes powers that the Constitution clearly gives to Congress, not the president — and Republicans in Congress pretend not to notice.

Rather than push back, leaders of Trump’s party lavish him with North Korean-style praise. I’m confident that if the top Republicans in Congress were meeting with Trump and the president accidentally spilled Diet Coke on his red necktie, they would all promptly spill Diet Coke on their red neckties, too.

I base this prediction on how they reacted to Trump’s pronouncement about somehow moving all the Palestinians out of Gaza so that the United States could develop the land into a luxury beach resort. As the leaders of neighboring countries such as Saudi Arabia, Jordan and Egypt have said in no uncertain terms, the idea — or hallucination — is pure lunacy.

But Speaker Mike Johnson (R-Louisiana) called Trump’s nonsensical proposal “a bold, decisive move.” Anyone who expects the GOP to protect our democratic system is dreaming.