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  Ross Douthat continues to live in a world uncoupled from reality.
context: the Return of the Pre-Trump G.O.P.
  
  Lmao, hardly. It's a frankenparty now, and they're 100% still hostage to the corpse they stitched themselves to. 15 speaker votes before he got elected, it's a joke. >
  
  By a NY Times right wing opinionator who gets it wrong.     If anything it was the even lower than Trump, fist fights on the House floor that we haven't seen since the enraged slavers went after abolitionists, Post-Trump GOP but Trump is still leading candidate for GOP nomination to the point even ambitious MAGA GOPers like DeSantis are afraid to declare for presidential race, afraid of Trump. >
  
  
  the Return of the Pre-Trump G.O.P.
  
  Lmao, hardly. It's a frankenparty now, and they're 100% still hostage to the corpse they stitched themselves to. 15 speaker votes before he got elected, it's a joke. >
  
  I don't think you have an accurate idea of what they currently are. They are not hostage. They did not attach themselves to Trump. He attached himself to them, and spouted every last ideal they schemed and whispered. He is their wet dream. Every single GOP member has been pushing these lies and schemes and sick twisted attempts to overthrow the government for decades before Trump. He just accelerated the timeline because he takes great pleasure in the crowds doing what he tells them to. He's a primadona. However, everything Trump is and has done? The GOP has embraced that and so much more for a long time. There is no redeeming qualities amongst any of them. They are not trapped with him, he is trapped with them (because he's a bankrupt corrupt stooge trying to avoid a special tea drink from Putin if he screws up). >
  
  They’ve had plenty of chances to get rid of him and continue without him. Instead, they give him a new lease of life each time. Either impeachment was the perfect opportunity. After the FBI search, they rallied around him. They deserve each other. >
  
  By a NY Times right wing opinionator who gets it wrong.     If anything it was the even lower than Trump, fist fights on the House floor that we haven't seen since the enraged slavers went after abolitionists, Post-Trump GOP but Trump is still leading candidate for GOP nomination to the point even ambitious MAGA GOPers like DeSantis are afraid to declare for presidential race, afraid of Trump. >
  
  4 days of reality TV is pretty Trumpy. >
  
  McCarthy was groveling thanking Trump for helping him secure the speakership. >
  
  And this after weeks now of the media telling us Trump's political career is dead, that he has no pull within the party, etc. It's like 2016 all over again. 
  The biggest story to come out of all of this is that in order to secure the speakership, McCarthy had to beg for help from a man that tried to overthrow our government. That they even have any kind of relationship at all should disqualify McCarthy from office. But this country doesn't have a good track record of holding traitor's accountable. Maybe if we'd done the right thing 150 years ago we wouldn't be in the mess we are today. Yet Democrats seem to be repeating history as well in their failure to hold Republicans accountable for their betrayal. >
  
  lol. Pre-Trump GOP?
  "He (Trump) really helped me get those final votes. What he's really saying, really for the party and the country, we have to come together." - Kevin McCarthy