Apparently, Mike Pence was open to staging a coup against Candidate Trump in October of 2016. But, you know, he didn't. Mr. Potter Cosplay Enthusiast Orrin Hatch basically confirmed the new Republican Party mantra: We're OK with pedophiles, as long as we can eviscerate the social safety net.
Basically, within a year Trump has ripped any spine or moral compass from the GOP (providing any existed in the first place). He has exposed to anyone who cares to watch that all the worst things that Democrats have been saying about Republicans - they hate women's sexual freedom, they hate the poor, they hate minorities and immigrants, they serve the rich at the expense of the public good, they don't know how to govern - are all accurate representations of the Grand Old Party.
What is so damned mystifying is why Republicans allowed this to happen. Why didn't they find a way to replace Trump on the ballot? And now that he's president, why don't they simply boot him to the curb and replace him with Mike Pence. Pence will sign everything Trump will sign and he'll stay off Twitter in the interim.
That's why a Doug Jones victory could be so bracing. Right now, I think Roy Moore win the election. And that just continues to prove John Oliver's joke that "Nothing matters anymore." But if Jones can win, it shows a dramatic limitation to Trumpist politics. And perhaps facing imminent electoral doom, Republicans will finally get off their ass and rid the country of the incompetents, traitors and crooks who currently occupy the West Wing.
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