As they quiver in the wake of Alabama's election results, Republicans have to worry about their connection to the toxic politics of Trump. As Scott Lemieux points out, Trump did not repeal the laws of gravity. He won because he won an improbably close set of elections in a unique electoral environment. The specific weaknesses of Hillary Clinton matched up well with the specific strengths of Donald Trump.
Yet, for some reasons, Republicans still feel compelled to defend this Cheetoh colored fart cloud.
The attacks on Robert Mueller's investigation are the latest example of how far Republicans will go to defend the indefensible. A calm exemplar of this is Andrew McCarthy's piece that gently hints that maybe Mueller's probe is fatally flawed because some of the people who worked for him had...opinions. The Editorial Board corrects this. We know, for instance, that FBI agents in the NY office had a very low opinion of Hillary Clinton. This may have contributed to the email nontroversy, but the FBI didn't file charges in the end, because they are the FBI, not the Stasi.
In the debate over Al Franken, I've argued that Democrats have to defend our expectations of what we want from our institutions. The Republicans have become a party of nihilists, wrecking the fabric of our civic life in the pursuit of power in the service of great wealth. Now they are turning their sights on the institutions of law enforcement.
We are ruled by the worst people.
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