Ideologues Fear Loss of Influence

Republican ideologues, falling generally into classes of money-grubbers and religious nuts, are concerned about the loss of broader social influence as their president goes down in flames. Characteristically, even when confronted with the extraordinary risks to the country Trump entails, they think only of themselves and their narrow concerns, ignoring all else and especially their lack of any mandate at the executive level.

There is a precedent, however, for this kind of behavior. George Bush and his morally bankrupt gang of arrogant, selfish, ideologically driven thugs used the 9/11 attacks to implement a laundry list of bad Republican policies previously impossible to move forward and acted out aggressive instincts at every level. In no time we were mired in unwinnable wars and the economy was hustled along the path of implosion.

Pro-business, deregulatory lunatics are worried that their agenda will go down with Trump. It's impossible to separate actual moral revulsion to Trump from selfish concerns about being slimed by him and the damage he could do to a corporate brand but notice how uncaring they are about the existential threat of Trump to the greater society. They consider those responsibilities, actual patriotism, to be beyond their brief.

Gary Cohn, for example, has overcome any embarrassment​ and is still on-board with his Nazi-sympathizer​ boss, hoping to continue to screw non-wealthy Americans to the wall, an article of devotion among Republicans transcending everything else. There is no limit to their pernicious greed and they are probably concerned that average citizens will finally realize the thing is a scam and demand that it all be undone.

Please observe, for the record, that the pretense of patriotism is falling away. Republicans will relabel the whole mess later on. It's no wonder they resonate with the rationalizations of the "lost cause" apologists. Oh, and the religious fanatics, not to neglect them, have followed Trump into his foxhole where they cower and scan the skies for signs of the second coming. I'm curious what they will think of the eclipse.