Republicans at the Democrat National Convention

If you watched the final night of the DNC—and earlier too—you would have seen members of the Republican Party, supporting Kamala Harris.  Their main point is that the post-Trump GOP has developed (or regressed) into a personality cult.  The last straw was when they shut down a bi-partisan immigration and migrant control bill, at the orders of Trump.  It had not been an easy bill to put together, but it had somehow been gotten ready in December; but Trump did not want there to be any political victories for the Democrats, or for Biden.  So he called for that bill to be abandoned.

It was a foolish mistake, that few people would have made.  What did Trump think would have been the response of the Democrats to being denied the opportunity to pass the bill, and put it into action?  Of course, the Dems are mad as hell.  But the MAGA faithful in The House are content to take their cues from The Savior.  ("He knows what he's doing," they're thinking, against the evidence of four years.)

And, that action has given the leadership of the Dems so much ammunition to attack Trump!  Did he think they would be decent, and pull their punches?  Did he think the Dems would say: it was all our fault?  What an idiot. 

Of course, when the Dems are a minority in the House, they had to do a lot of compromising.  But this elections, there must be lots of Republicans coming up for reelection.  What are they to say when their electorate asks them what they did about the border?  They'll have to invent some fiction such as: "The Dems came up with a bill, but it was rubbish.  So Trump advised that we should not push it forward.  So that's what we did."

The main engine of the MAGA faithful and Trump is: dislike of foreigners.  If you remember, Trump signaled this by insulting the parents of an immigrant, a marine who was killed in battle.  Trump got a thorough scolding by the father, during the 2016 debate against Hillary Clinton.  This gives us a clue about how big this border control issue is, for both Trump, and the MAGA/Tea Party people.  It's almost as though there are only one issue for them.  Well, an issue and a half: how to fix the border, and prevent the wrong sorts of people from voting.

What a sad thing. 

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