Donald Trump’s 'nutty rants' on Truth Social show why Republicans should ditch him: conservative
Although former President Donald Trump’s Twitter account was suspended after the January 6, 2021 insurrection, he remains an avid user of social media — specifically, his own platform Truth Social. On August 29, Trump posted a Truth Social rant in which Trump demanded that the United States’ federal government do one of two things: either (1) hold a new presidential election for 2020, or (2) acknowledge the 2020 election as illegitimate and reinstall him as president immediately.
Never Trump conservative and Washington Post opinion writer Jennifer Rubin slams that rant as “unhinged” in her August 31 column, lamenting that Trump is still the person millions of Republican voters would like to see win the GOP presidential nomination in 2024.
“One does not need a medical degree or a therapist’s license to conclude that defeated former President Donald Trump’s nutty rant insisting that he be made president immediately or the 2020 election be rerun is the sign of an unhinged personality,” Rubin writes. “Under pressure from the increasingly potent espionage investigation, he might be losing his grip. For a change, you don’t hear Republicans rushing forth to support his latest insane demand.”
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Rubin adds, “Trump’s posting of QAnon messages and implicit threats, in increasingly unintelligible syntax, suggests that he is losing the ability or desire to control his impulsive outbursts. This is the guy whom millions of Republicans want to nominate for president.”
The columnist goes on to lament that many of Trump’s Republicans supporters aren’t the least bit troubled by the reasons for the FBI’s August 8 search at Mar-a-Lago, where they were searching for classified government documents. In fact, they deeply resent the fact that the search was conducted in the first place.
“There is little to no sign that Republicans are ready to distance themselves from someone who risks an indictment in state and federal court and resorts regularly to incoherent rants that not even right-wing media dare repeat, lest they scare their viewers and listeners,” Rubin observes. “Instead, they mutely march along, taking his advice on nominees and reiterating their support for another presidential run. Their refusal to confront Trump’s current mental and legal status takes procrastination to a whole new level. Are they hoping that he’ll be indicted well in advance of 2024?”
Rubin continues, “Well, if past is prologue, then we shouldn’t discount the possibility that they would still nominate him. Martyr! Deep state! If they are counting on the good sense of GOP primary voters to dump him, they might take a look at the MAGA loonies voters picked in primaries ahead of the midterms: e.g., January 6 attendee and Pennsylvania gubernatorial candidate Doug Mastriano, MAGA provocateur and election-denier Kari Lake in Arizona.”
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The columnist wraps up her column by stressing that Trump continues to be a major problem for the Republican Party — and that GOP leaders have no one but themselves to blame.
“Figuring out who exactly is supposed to now convince the base that Trump is, after all this, too toxic and deranged to be the nominee may be a challenge,” Rubin explains. “This dilemma is entirely of the GOP’s own making. Years of sycophancy or silence, years of building a right-wing media cocoon and years of selective listening may prevent the party from engaging in rudimentary self-preservation. Maybe party leaders simply intend for him to run, lose, take the party down and set off a more violent version of January 6 — because that’s the direction we’re heading in.”
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