The Whole Republican Party Is Shoring Up Trump's Delusions

http://www.esquire.com/news-politics/politics/news/a55435/republicans-enabling-trump/


The Whole Republican Party Is Shoring Up Trump's Delusions
The president* must be shielded from reality at all costs.
By Charles P. Pierce
Jun 2, 2017

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For years now, starting with its adoption of voodoo economics—Thanks, Poppy!—in the late 1970s, the Republican Party has staked its political future on magic asterisks, scientific illiteracy, and on camouflaging plutocracy in overalls and a CAT hat. This is how it produced a Mick Mulvaney in the first place.

But what's going on now is different. It's become plain that nobody of political influence in the Republican Party wants to do anything that upsets the delusions of the unqualified dolt in the Oval Office. (Remember in his big speech on Thursday, when he talked about how his tax plan was sailing through Congress? There is no tax plan. Anybody want to tell him that?) And, so far, the response to this, across the board, has been supine complicity in whatever fiction the White House is selling on a particular day. Our republic truly has gone bananas. This is the height of the art form that is American conservative governance.

It's also the way autocracies work. But I repeat myself.