[TBP]

This is the downside of the Gaetz withdrawal. It empowered and emboldened the liberal smear machine.

[pepsi_junkie]

It empowered and emboldened the liberal uniparty smear machine.

Note that the GOP threw Gaetz under the bus too. They are letting Trump know in no uncertain terms: "remember how we spend 2017 and 2018 blocking everything you wanted until the dems could take over the resistance effort after they won the house? We're doing it again."

[2CAVTrooper]

“This is the downside of the Gaetz withdrawal. It empowered and emboldened the liberal smear machine.”

This has been going on long before Gaetz.
Anytime our side gives so must as an inch it emboldens the leftist smear machine.

Then there are the backstabbing traitors within our own party such as senile collins, and fat cow murkowski who help the enemy every chance they get.