Monday, November 8, 2021

Trump Threatened To Destroy Republican Party

 



In his upcoming book "Betrayal: The Final Act of the Trump Show," Jonathan Karl reports on a conversation the malignant neo-fascist demagogue Donald "Loser" Trump had with his butt-kissing Republican National Committee Chair Ronna "Romney" McDaniel on January 20 as Trump was clinging to the final hours in office. The vindictive con man reportedly told McDaniel that he was finished with the Republican Party, since it didn't fully participate in trying to overthrow our democracy. ABC News has some details:

"The standoff started on Jan. 20, just after Trump boarded Air Force One for his last flight as president.

'[RNC Chairwoman Ronna McDaniel] called to wish him farewell. It was a very un-pleasant conversation,' Karl writes in "Betrayal," set to be released on Nov. 16.

'Donald Trump was in no mood for small talk or nostalgic goodbyes,' Karl writes. 'He got right to the point. He told her he was leaving the Republican Party and would be creating his own political party. [snip]

'I'm done,' Trump told McDaniel. "I'm starting my own party."

"You cannot do that," McDaniel told Trump. 'If you do, we will lose forever.'

'Exactly. You lose forever without me,' Trump responded. 'I don't care.'

Trump's attitude was that if he had lost, he wanted everybody around him to lose as well, Karl writes. According to a source who witnessed the conversation, Trump was talking as if he viewed the destruction of the Republican Party as a punishment to those party leaders who had betrayed him -- including those few who voted to impeach him and the much larger group he believed didn't fight hard enough to overturn the election in his favor. " (our emphasis)

Our initial thought: please go for it. Also, as amateur students of history, we couldn't help but note the similarities in thinking between Trump's swan song and the insane Roman Emperor "Let Rome Burn" Nero, or even that of an infamous butcher of the last century:

"On March 16, the German army’s last offensive of the war, Operation Spring Awakening in Hungary against the Red Army, collapsed. For the Führer the impending defeat proved that Germans were simply neither strong nor ruthless enough to do what was necessary to achieve victory. Deeming Germany a failure of a nation Hitler prepared a decree that would seal the country’s collapse with catastrophic finality."  (our emphasis)
We think he'll decline to run in 2024 if he senses another defeat, but if he does run, let him run on his own neo-fascist party ticket. That should concentrate what's left of the minds of the Republican / Seditionist / New Confederate Party leaders.

(Image: Tim O'Brien for Mother Jones Magazine)