Rick Wilson is a conservative.
WEEK OF LESSONS
Donald Trump Betrays Everyone. Somehow, Republicans Still Seem Surprised.
He’s not just new to the game, or inexperienced. He’s genuinely, catastrophically terrible at politics.
Rick Wilson
09.08.17 1:00 AM ET
The Navy SEALs have a saying that should be familiar to the Trump team by this point; “The only easy day was yesterday.” Given that Monday was a holiday, the past three days have been filled with betrayal, pain, and humiliation for Trump’s supporters, enablers, and media cheerleaders that have been a delight and a vindication for those of us who told you all along that everything Trump touches dies.
Pain is the truest teacher, and after months of pretending that Trump was “new at this” or that his administration was just a little rough around the edges, House Speaker Paul Ryan and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell walked out of the Oval Office Wednesday feeling the sting of betrayal. The greatest dealmaker in history got rolled like a rube before their very eyes. Donald Trump sold himself to Chuck Schumer and Nancy Pelosi without a blink, giving the hapless Democrats a powerful political lever by agreeing to their terms on the debt ceiling. Even for the most shameless of the clickservatives endlessly insisting Trump was ready to drain the swamp and MAGA, spinning this story as a Republican and conservative win is like trying to pass a kidney stone the size of the golf ball.
Ryan and McConnell were humiliated, but they certainly shouldn’t have been shocked. No matter how many times they tried to normalize Trump, no matter how many of his impulses, outrages, and deviances they forgave, Wednesday was inevitable.
Trump isn’t a good president. He isn’t a smart man. He isn’t a conservative by any stretch of the imagination. Praising the Umber Emperor’s fabulously tailored suit when he’s capered across the American political stage like a jiggling column of pasty flab always took a lot of effort for both these men, but after Wednesday, it may be more than they can muster.
They complained before in off-the-record interviews and leaks, using more-in-sorrow-than-anger tones: “Oh, that scamp Donnie!” Sure, he attacked their intellect, their principles, and their manhoods, but until now he’s still never dropped his knickers for the Democrats in a debt-limit deal that was sure to blow a hole in the GOP caucus. The betrayal of the speaker and the majority leader was just one of the three big middle fingers Trump extended in the first two days of this short week.
The biggest disaster, and the one with the most sweeping repercussions was his almost comically maladroit handling of his reversal of President Obama’s DACA policy. Because he’s terrible at politics—not just new to the game, or inexperienced, but genuinely, catastrophically terrible at politics— his DACA train wreck was epic.
He broke the central promise of his campaign. No, that wasn’t “Make America Great Again” or “Lock her up!” or “But the Supreme Court!” The central promise was a wall to stop the brown tide, while deporting the ones already here illegally. For his cult, all Mexicans look alike; they’re not here not to build a better life, but to mule in a few kilos of coke over the border, form criminal gangs more puissant than ISIS, engage in hyper-violent crime sprees, take your job, and then pop out enough anchor babies to man a rifle squad. Trump’s opening salvo was a jingoistic attack on Mexicans, delivered on the day he descended the golden escalator, and the horde howled with glee. It was chum in the water for the faction of the GOP who came to believe that all their woes are attributable to immigrants.
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