Seconded.
I only voted for Trump as I disliked Biden just slightly more. However a distressing pattern I’ve noticed is the one moment somebody disagrees with Trump or doesn’t bend his way or kiss his ass, he/she gets labeled a villain, even if they had previously agreed to work with him. Mattis, Barr, etc....all these guys worked with Trump and the moment they disagreed with the God Emperor, they were shunned and castigated even though they were previously lauded by conservatives...and they get accused of being part of the “Deep State” and other conspiracy nonsense. It’s not rational behavior, and it’s eerily similar to the messianic worship of Obama when he was in office. But considering the narcissistic personalities of both men, it’s not a surprise.
Start planning for the future. Plan to fight and win in 2022 and 2024. You can’t win every damn battle, learn to pick up the pieces and move on.
The sad thing is a lot of these people are older and allegedly more mature, and therefore should know better.
And yeah, I think it's due to the fact that Trump is incapable of seeing how he could be wrong and is so thin-skinned he can't abide it and has to try and humiliate those he sees as "insufficiently loyal" etc. This despite the fact that they're trying to keep his ass from getting in further trouble.
You're assuming that we're all Republicans; the only reason I supported those guys was because of Trump, and what he represented. An outsider finally puncturing the political establishment bubble. Once he's gone, we're back to Monoparty rule; and I'm back to thumbing my nose at Republicans and Democrats alike.
See, if you can't actually tell the two apart, that tells me you really haven't gotten involved in politics and haven't made any more than a cursory study of the subject. Because you have hundreds of people trying to get their way and that's inevitably going to mean you don't get everything you want.
"Plan to fight and win in 2022 and 2024." How exactly are we going to win, when we don't have any pieces on the board? The Republicans are controlled opposition at best, and wolves in sheep's clothing at worst; they are not on anyone's side but their own, and they never have been. For that matter, what's the point in trying to win an election when we know our enemies will cheat to win, and get away with it?
Where are you getting this "controlled opposition" ofrom? You do know that every opposition everywhere is limited in what it can do, because they're the opposition, right? That doesn't mean "roll over" which the GOP actually doesn't do; it means that they're playing with a weaker hand so there is only so much they can change.
Furthermore, as we've seen over the last ten years or so, the GOP is going from being a minority party to a majority. What distorts it is the electoral college (seriously we really *should* add 120 representatives to the House so it isn't so fucked up -we are basing the limit based on a census from a century ago. But I digress...the larger point is that the Republicans are gaining the upper hand. It doesn't seem like it because social media and the mainstream news outlets are trying to downplay or even suppress it, but fractures are showing on the Left just as much. The only reason they haven't shattered is because Biden is remembered largely as an amiable dunce by most Americans, as opposed to a loudmouth reality show star who keeps driving talent away because they don't want to deal with his shit. Ergo, the pool of candidates he can select is limited.
Also, this whole brushing people who point out how utterly corrupt the system and the people who run it are off as nothing more than Trump worshipers, is just intellectually dishonest. This is not about Trump; it's about a fraudulent election, on top of four years of both parties undermining our legitimately elected president. As for people suddenly turning against Mattis, Barr, and others; you do understand the concept of betrayal, don't you? It kind of has the effect of quickly changing one's opinion on someone drastically.
The thing is, you get brushed with it because this is an extremely cynical tone that 99.9% of diehard Trumpists take, but that most Americans disagree with. You say "fraudulent election," yet there has been *no actual proof* provided of wide-scale fraud other than by some random people from YouTube. When pressed to do so in court, the campaign has come up with total bullshit, and even in the case in Wisconsin where the opportunity was given to present their case, the campaign stipulated (that is, conceded *without disputing the point* that there was no widespread fraud and that *they agreed on the facts argued by the other side*).
And you claim that Mattis, Barr, and everyone else "undermined" the president...
Policy differences do not count as "undermining" a president. Cabinet advisors are supposed to provide the best possible advice, and that includes things that a president (any president) doesn't necessarily like to hear or agree with. Mattis had some flaws of not doing enough at playing the political game with Congress and the civilian side, but that's not "undermining". Nor is it undermining when Barr pushes to keep the investigation into the origins of the collusion charges going. Or maybe you refer to the "not announcing the investigation into Hunter" bit, despite that being a rule for two reasons: 1) The DOJ is not supposed to play politics and Barr was trying to prevent the same type of damage that Comey had inflicted four years earlier and 2) Cops don't like it when they're conducting an investigation and it gets blown early. Or maybe it's Barr's refusal to entertain Trump's suggestions of a "do-over" or declaring martial law? If you don't see the problem inherent in suggesting *those* "remedies" then I don't know what to tell you.
And I will add that Trump said in an interview in 2015 that is "negotiating strategy" is to "whine and whine until I get my way." That is not how functional adults do things; that's how toddlers behave. Trump is used to using "paper terrorism" (that is, drowning his opponents in piles of legal paperwork until they say "fuck it, this isn't worth it"). Against the average person, he can do that (and has). Against a peer opponent? Turns out that doesn't work.
If you want to go back to saying "fuck it I don't care they all suck" rather than doing the actual hard job of going out, getting involved at a local level and working with your party of choice to change things, that's your prerogative. It's much easier to sit on your ass behind an internet forum and complain about how you hate stuff, rather than, like me, actually going out and trying to do the hard work that comes along with it. And the frustration but also the happiness of when you finally get somewhere or help someone get something through that you support.
