Ten years ago I said we need a new party or we will regret it. Now we have no party.
On Inauguration Day 2017 I posted here that Trump had six months to denounce the GOP and recruit 435 patriots willing to run for the House in November 2018, and that if he did not the GOP, especially Pence, McConnell and Ryan would ruin his term in office.
Result: D+40 in the House, and the end of any chance to get anything done.
This November may be worse.
And - I understand he was not prepared to be President in this political system. I understand that he thought it was like a hostile business takeover and the Republicans in Washington were like managers who would report Monday morning for new marching orders from the new CEO.
But it doesn’t matter. What matters is that for some inexplicable reason he trusted the Republicans, even though he wasn’t one of them, and even though he could never have become President without blue-collar Democrats.
“There is a tide in the affairs of men which, when taken at the flood, leads on to fortune…”
Sadly, there are no second acts, and the people who subverted his first term are now much more powerful and determined.