Time for Republicans to Leap From the Boat
President Trump made two big political decisions over past half-week, and both are already proving disasters.
The first decision was to cut himself loose from the Republican leadership in Congress. Trump blasted Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell with a sequence of tweets fixing blame on McConnell—and thereby absolving himself—for the failure of Obamacare repeal.
The second decision was to issue a statement condemning “many sides” for the confrontation in Charlottesville, Virginia, over the weekend—and adhering to that policy of pandering to white nationalism even after the ramming death of a counter-protester and the injury of many more.
Trump had wanted to stand apart from Republicans in Congress—and and ; , who heads the Senate Republican campaign organization; President Pro Tempore of the Senate —all issued statements implicitly criticizing Trump’s response for its even-handedness between perpetrators and targets.
