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The new GOP litmus test: Defending Trump at his absolute worst
GURPS and the rest of the cultists think that only people who will bow before Trump and profess their undying love and loyalty to Trump are worthy of office.
Rational, reasonable adults understand that a person should be sent to Washington to represent the people of their district or state...they aren't elected to serve the President.
The big news in Tuesday night’s elections is the defeat of GOP establishment pick Tim Pawlenty in the Minnesota GOP gubernatorial primary, at the hands of a full-blown Trump loyalist. This makes a Democratic victory in the state more likely, and crucially, it probably makes it easier for Democrats to hold a couple of House seats they are defending in the state, which is key to Democrats’ hopes of taking back the lower chamber this fall.
Beyond this, Pawlenty’s loss provides a useful way to try to understand what is happening in the GOP of the Trump era. After it happened, Pawlenty told reporters:
“The Republican Party has shifted. It is the era of Trump and I’m just not a Trump-like politician.”
The phrase “Trump-like politician,” it turns out, is basically a euphemism for a “politician who is willing to defend President Trump at his most reprehensible moments.” The man who decisively defeated Pawlenty, local commissioner Jeff Johnson, actually ran an ad that blasted Pawlenty for failing to stand by Trump after the news broke of the “Access Hollywood” video, which featured Trump boasting in extremely lewd fashion about his ability to carry out sexual assaults with impunity.
GURPS and the rest of the cultists think that only people who will bow before Trump and profess their undying love and loyalty to Trump are worthy of office.
Rational, reasonable adults understand that a person should be sent to Washington to represent the people of their district or state...they aren't elected to serve the President.