If this week’s headlines about Trump feel familiar, you’re not alone. But tolerance for his norm-breaking is waning and his excuses for Jan. 6 are less persuasive. Republicans have a choice to make, writes Philip_Elliott
about whether they will back their party’s most unlikely gatecrasher. The Republican reaction from elders, shifting their weight from left to right, doing their best to signal they weren’t happy without actually giving voice to their hesitance, is now as polished as anything on Broadway.
But something feels slightly different in 2022 as Trump feeds the Id of the ardent supporters who cheered him on over the weekend as he revived the greatest hits from his campaign and his presidency, all but declaring his intentions to stage a rematch against President Joe Biden in 2024. The bombast was the same and the facts were as thin as usual.
Perhaps no one reaction summed it up better than the man wearing a “Cops for Trump” T-shirt just over the ex-President’s right shoulder in the head-on cameraas he made the announcement. “If I run and if I win, we will treat those people from Jan. 6 fairly,” Trump said. “And if it requires pardons, we will give them pardons, because they are being treated so unfairly.
Those comments and a host of other revelations this week have put Republicans in an increasingly tricky spot. At the moment, Trump remains the most powerful Republican in the country,
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