Focus on Congressional Republicans. Despite their allegiance to Trump, and their fear of being primaried, most of them are smart enough to realize that the tariff water is a dumb ass move with no economic justification as is witnessed by the chart Trump offered that showed we would be putting tariffs on an island of penguins, which are hardly to be imported to the United States as meat because penguins are so cute. So the question remains why Senators and Congress members continue to support him, even though he has moved so much closer to economic and social chaos than any previous President and yet they refuse to stop him? My suggestion is that even though they don't say so in public, they think he is crude but basically correct in that they are rejecting everything that has happened in America since the Sixties and are filled with enough rage that they want revenge against it. Oh so low and far from statesmen like these people that they seize themselves with Ante-Bellum feelings against the Union but without the contiguous geographic area or the control of the military that would enable them to unleash their feelings. Not the Progressives and certainly not the Liberals are as angry as even the apparently courtlyConservatives like Josh Hawley and Ted Cruz and John Kennedy, all of them well educated but giving up their souls to join the Populist cause, let alone Nancy Mace and Marjorie Taylor Green, the second of whom got into a cat fight with Jasmine Crockett who said Green was a bleached blond in answer to being told by Green that Crockett had too much mascara. A comic version of Senator Seward of New York pummeled with a cane in pre Civil War times but exhibiting tremendous animus and very different from when Biden joined the Senate and learned to be courteous to arch segregationists because, after all, they had been elected to and the office should be honored.
What is to be done to bind a tourniquet around America's wound? I would suggest that we can’t wait until the midterm elections because what if there is a cris over taiwan orf a nation wide measles epidemic or major private sector layoffs and no one capable of managing such matters are available in that the organizations to deal with these cruises have been depopulated and the now appointed leaders are incompetent.
Four Republican Senators have already broken ranks though for specialized reasons. They voted to suspend tariffs against Canada. Susan Collins did so because Maine exports lobsters to China and imports berries from Prince Edward Island, Lisa Murkowski because she has a secure and independent minded constituency in Alaska, Rand Paul who has a principled position on Randian economics and seems reasonable under contemporary circumstances, and Mitch McConnell, who is retiring from the Senate and hates Trump. Four other recruits to a Republican Senate opposition to Trump suggest themselves. Chuck Grassley will probably not run for another term and so is free of a fear of being primaried. Ron Johnson represents Wisconsin, a state dependent on cross US-Canada trade. Freshman Senator John Curtis of Utah has five and a half years before he faces reelection and has already said that dismantling the government should be a kinder, gentler process, and perhaps Roger Wicker of Mississippi, the Chairman of the Armed Services Committee, who could claim his higher responsibility to matters of the shambles in foreign policy.
I am therefore appealing to other of very Trump friendly people to shed their cloaks of invisibility and raise out as statesman to say enough ios enough by moving to impeachment proceedings on the grounds that the Constitution is not a suicide pact and incompetence is a high misdemeanor. It is easy enough for a democrat to say that, you wi;lsay. Because you are not betraying or changing your beliefs in order to do so, but remember that Liberal Democrats displayed the Southern Democratic leadership over civil rights and opposed the Democratic President concerning the Vietnam War. People need to rise to the occasion lest they become or remain ashamed of themselves. Have these people no dignity?
The Dow Jones has dropped about 3900 points in two days. Is this not sufficient to awaken Republicans from their slumber?
3 P. M., MST, April 4th