President Abraham Lincoln once said, “A House divided against itself cannot stand,” referring to both House of Congress but it also applies to the self-destructive class of Republicans that find it amusing to raise money and run ads against 76-year-old President Donald Trump. Lincoln Project co-founder Rick Wilson said the Republican Party is in “Trumpfunk,” because of the lackluster showing in the Nov. 8 Midterm elections. But like other anti-Trump Republicans, they forget that Trump was the Party’s least of its problems heading into the Midterms. Republicans have no one to blame but themselves for cheering the June 24 Supreme Court ruling ending Roe v. Wader, turning back the clock on women’s rights. Wilson and other anti-Trump conservatives like 60-year-old pundit Anne Coulter don’t get it that the GOP has turned off generations of young voters, including single parents.
Trumpfunk is the way Willson can stay in denial about a party that thinks they can take away women’s rights, celebrating the end of Roe v. Wade. What happened on the Supreme Court was an abortion of justice, using a red herring like Dobbs v. Jackson to reverse nearly 53 years of allowing women and their doctors to decide what’s best in their medical decision-making. Securing the Senate, Democrats have given 80-year-old President Joe Biden more ways to bankrupt the country with runaway inflation and recession. Biden has donne more damage to the U.S. economy since former President Jimmy Carter, whose economy hiked the prime rate to 21%. Biden wants to take credit for his 42% approval ratings but clearly he’s a liability to the Democrat Party, despite the poor showing by self-defeating Republicans, too consumed feuding with Trump than winning elections.
Wilson was gleeful about the poor showing in the Midterm election, pointing fingers, like Couter, on Trump. But the GOP has an existential problem, turning off young voters and single parents. When you have people like Wilson that celebrate a poor showing in the Midterms because it reflects unfavorably on Trump, the GOP needs a major overhaul, top-to-bottom. “No matter where you stand on abortion, the audience for the state GOP’s legislatures setting up snitch bounties [e.g. Texas] and forcing pre-teen rape victims to carry and ectopic victims to die has a very small constituency,” Wilson said, coming close to the fact the abortion issue hurt the GOP, not Trump, in the Midterm election. Wilson is dead wrong about the GOP who’d rather go down wit the ship than rethink the self-destructive anti-abortion vote. Ending Roe v. Wade weighed heavily on young voters Nov. 8.
Wilson and other anti-Trump Republicans want all the blame to go to Trump to stop him from running in the 2024 presidential election. Trump is one person among a slew of other candidates including Gov. Ron DeSantis (R-Fl.), who consider running in 2024. Wilson goes off the rails when it comes to Trump but he’ll find the GOP with more systemic problems going forward as a national party. No party with extreme positions on women’s rights can expect to sell itself on the national stage. No one can underestimate the damage done by the Supreme Court to the Republican Party going forward. Republicans keep taking about states rights but the issue boils down to women’s right to control their own bodies. Until the GOP can figure it out, they’ll have trouble attracting young voters. Wilson wants to attribute everything to “Trumpfunk” but the GOP has undeniable problems.
When you have a Democrats president sending the world close to WW III, possibly nuclear war, the Republican Party had a perfect chance to put the Midterm election into perspective. No president in modern history has done more damage to U.S. national security than Biden. Wilson thinks Trump did damage but only to Wilson and his friends’ egos, who didn’t like Trump’s unconventional governing style. Whether admitted to or not by Wilson or the press, Trump was not a Kremlin puppet. Trump got along well with U.S. adversaries believing it’s more important in the scheme of things to get along on the world stage. Based on Biden’s abysmal track record with Russia and China, you’d think that the GOP could drive voters away from Democrats. But no, Republican and Democrats joined together on one issue, Biden’s proxy war in Ukraine against Vladimir Putin.
Republicans had a missed opportunity to show the nation that the commander-in-chief is not fit for duty. Pushing the world to war with the Kremlin and close to war with China, Biden has made the world a dangerous place. Biden doesn’t know how to relate to U.S. adversaries, threatening military action, not trying to improve diplomacy. Yet unlike Trump, the GOP backs Biden’s madness in Ukraine. One miscalculation, one mishap, one mistake could send the world spiraling into WW III. U.S. press has high hopes for Biden’s upcoming meeting in Jakarta, Indonesia at the G20 summit where he’s expected to meet with Chinese President Xi Jinping. Biden has already threatened Xi with a new alliance to protect Taiwan with Australia. No one should expect Biden to go anything but make a bad situation worse. Whey hasn’t the GOP highlighted Biden’s reckless incompetence in foreign policy?
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John M. Curtis writes politically neutral commentary analyzing spin in national and global news. He’s editor of OnlineColumnist.com and author of Dodging The Bullet and Operation Charisma.
