His reascension, as nominee or the eventual winner, threatens to spark the same clashes with the Hill GOP that took a heavy toll on the party.
Congressional Republicans are steeling themselves for a return to daily life with Donald Trump — which means constant, uncomfortable questions about his erratic policy whims and political attacks.
With Trump far ahead of the GOP primary pack and leading President Joe Biden in some polls, Republicans are getting a preview of future shellshock akin to their experiences in 2016 and his presidency. It’s likely to continue for the next 11 months. And perhaps four more years after that.
Trump’s recent call to replace the Affordable Care Act is triggering a particularly unwelcome sense of deja vu within the GOP. Even as many Senate Republicans steered away from Trump over the past couple years, now they’re increasingly resigned to another general election that could inundate them with the former president’s often fact-averse and hyperbolic statements.
They did worse than nothing: they actively refused to hold him accountable for his actions.
Exactly this. Mitch McConnell claimed that impeachment wasn’t appropriate because the court of law would be the better venue. Now, Trump’s lawyers are arguing that the court of law isn’t the appropriate venue, impeachment was.
It all basically seems to boil down to “however you try to hold Trump accountable, it’s the wrong way!”
(But impeaching Joe Biden over a theory with zero evidence is totally fine to the Republicans.)