The Republican senators in the USA voted today against Donald Trump’s impeachment. It seems the demagogue still sways his whip over the party.
One wonders why they decided to keep him when they had the opportunity to get rid of him. Is it because they like him? Politicians are intrinsically as competitive as 3-year-olds… if anything, they must feel envy and grudge towards that deranged, narcissistic clown whose now — they, professional politicians — ass must kiss.
Few people in the Republican Party must really sympathize with the ex-president. Aside from cases like Marjorie Taylor Greene — who seems in the eyes of global spectators like the most peculiar character having served in a higher democratic assembly since the time of Cicciolina — most of them must perceive Trump as a necessary evil… In case you wonder, Cicciolina was that Italian porn star who served in Italy’s parliament in the late 1980s and offered to fuck Saddam Hussein in exchange for peace.
But then what are they afraid of? Why didn’t they kick the dolt out?
Simply put, they are probably afraid that they will lose their investment. At the end of the day, politicians are first and foremost investors. They just invest time and money in their political campaigns in a gamble to earn more money and time in return when they are elected for a government office. If they don’t hold the positions of power, there won’t be any gargantuan deals with international corporations and foreign governments for them.
But why would expelling Trump mean that they won’t put their asses in the executive chairs again?
Well, what would happen if they did convict Trump? Would Trumpism withdraw to Mar-a-Lago together with him?
Of course not. Trump has invested heavily in his public image to surf the surging social trends. Would all the millions of American lunatics be ready to vote for whomever moderate Republican in 2024, especially when their idol gets so disgracefully and unfairly nullified?
The genius of Trump lies in his readiness and cunningness to appreciate and embrace the growing number of American lunatics that the Internet has facilitated. The fatal combination of Facebook and Bible has been brainwashing the minds of those people for an entire generation. They are not ready to chill, renounce their life meaning, abandon their guns, vote for anyone that is not Trump or a reflection of Trump.
Was Donald Trump prevented from running for office again, someone of his like would inevitably emerge to represent his believers and protect their sacred cause. It could be Donald Trump Jr., and then the senior would aspire to hold the reigns of America from the background — in a similar way that Putin did during Medvedev’s presidency; the only difference being that Donald will be the daddy literally instead of figuratively as a prime minister.
If their party was to fracture, the Republicans would have to relinquish their executive office aspirations once and for all. They would have two choices: one, to follow either the moderate or the extreme side and hope that they took the right decision for being in the second party instead of the third; or two, abandon their political careers altogether to become indebted writers.
They surely must be in a dire situation. The problem seems hardly solvable. It will be interesting to see how they will try to deal with it.
