re: So how much more are we supposed to shut up and ignore?

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The vast majority of which were accomplished with EOs.

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With a GOPe that didn’t support him (or the American people that HE represented), no shite he used EO’s.

So phuking what. McCain was a huge piece of shite. Now he's sucking demon dick with his good buddy Fat Ted in hell.

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You don't think Trump insulting him for months had anything to do with that?

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I guess it's possible. As I recall, McCain opposed the Bush tax cuts in 2001 because he was angry about the 2000 primary. In 2017, McCain was saying that he wouldn't vote for any bill that Democrats didn't also support. Okay... The Democrats did not take that approach when passing Obamacare. Come to think of it, no Democrat has ever said anything like that. They vote as a bloc on every critical vote, no matter what. That's why they dominate.

I'll give him the 30 years your side had.
You guys campaigned and lied about every policy position for 30 years, no more.

Your side is so uni-party, they are complicit with 2020, J6 political prisoners and the 87,000 new irs agents.

You side had 30 years, no more.

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This whole take is what worries the hell out of me about November. Trump will always have his base. That isn’t going anywhere. But his base is not enough to overcome whatever bullshite the left has planned. The left could roll a potato out there and win this unless Trump can figure out a way to get turnout from the traditionally GOPe voters and a good portion of the middle of the aisles. Otherwise people on our side are going to just stay home and fall back on the BS “Well I didn’t vote for him or anyone, so I don’t care!” excuse.

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You get it.

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I've never seen a presidential candidate where his policies and actions seemingly make no difference to his base.

Frankly, it's fascinating.

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Unfortunately, I predict that will become the new norm.

I keep posting it here, but one more time won't hurt, I guess (definitely not on a thread like this).

The left has been a bunch of populist victims for decades. The "right" has now been taken over by populist victims who believe and hang on every word of charlatans like Tucker Carlson.

The left blames everything on white people, "colonizers," and institutional racism.

The "right" now blames everything on the Deep State/Establishment/Uniparty/League of Reptilian Jewish International Illuminati.

Both of them see conspiracies against them EVERYWHERE. Under every rock, behind every tree.

And just like the left, the "right" now defines everything...EVERYTHING in terms of these conspiracy narratives. Policy doesn't matter, only whether or not someone is opposed to the "Deep State." If they are, they're in, regardless of what else they do, and if they aren't, then they're out regardless of anything else they do.

Trump bombs Syria, not because they threatened us, but because of their treatment of their own people, and the cult says nothing. If ANY other Republican candidate were to say, "Hey Syria just used chemical weapons against its own people, we should bomb them," they would wet their pants screaming that he/she was trying to start WWIII for profit as an agent of the Deep State.

It's not just Trump...Trump is just a man of his times. This buying in to populism and conspiracy nonsense is what makes a paranoid narcissist like Donald Trump possible.

Going forward, those who signal that they are "Deep State" opposers and repeat the conspiracy theories (like Ramaswamey did during the primaries) are going to get the GOP cult-vote. And there will be no shortage of opportunists...Ramaswamey was ahead of the curve in understanding what's happening, but there will be plenty of others.

To your larger point, I have said almost from the beginning in 2016 that the stupidest thing that the Democrats ever did was oppose Trump as hard as they did. All they would have had to have done is appealed to his ego, called him the Great Unifier or something silly like that, kissed his ring, said he was the most unifying POTUS ever, and he would have done all sorts of liberal shite for them.

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I would encourage you to give Auron MacIntyre's podcast a listen.

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I'll see what he's about.

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I'm not saying we should blindly worship Trump. But you clearly have a specific bone to pick with him, as if he is somehow uniquely flawed in contrast with most other Republicans.

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He's uniquely flawed in that his caustic persona, refusal to work with anyone that doesn't pledge fealty, and predisposition to destroy anyone that he perceives as a threat prevents him from not only appealing to a wider swath of the electorate, it also prevents him from getting things accomplished.

And that doesn't only effect the presidential race, but races throughout the country where he supports marginal candidates that get blown out in general elections.

While his base loves him, the rest of the electorate ranges from disturbed by him to outright hatred.

I'll vote for him in November while knowing it is a vote against the socialists more than it is a vote for Trump for the reasons listed in the OP and elsewhere in this thread.

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He's uniquely flawed in that his caustic persona, refusal to work with anyone that doesn't pledge fealty, and predisposition to destroy anyone that he perceives as a threat prevents him from not only appealing to a wider swath of the electorate, it also prevents him from getting things accomplished.

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But it also makes him the perfect candidate for the mindset I just described.

A paranoid, destructive mindset seeks a paranoid destructive candidate to reflect it.

Mate that's what Robbie Mook called Trump in 2016. A Pied Piper.