Originally posted by: Mark
I think it shows how low the Republican party has sunk. It is so bad that not even a rock-ribbed conservative like Cheney can support it. Trump is not a conservative and he never has been. He is an opportunist looking to make a buck and he has found his suckers in the MAGA movement.
That's a really good point, and something that many people don't consider. Trump chose to go "conservative" rather than "liberal" (it would have been phony either way) because he shrewdly perceived--give the devil his due--that conservatives would be easier to scam. He certainly was right, and he played them brilliantly.
Trump's long con has been the most successful in American history. He's pretty much an idiot savant; he knows how to scam, but he doesn't know how to read or anything like that. Give a guy like that a huge bag of money, and theere's no limit to how far he can go.