Trump described as mob boss taking revenge on Republicans who did not support coup
Instead of leaving after losing, Trump has turned the Republican Party into a criminal family structure where he is the mob boss who attacks those who have defended democracy.
Trump has also had talks in recent weeks with MAGA-bound Republicans considering challenging GOP governors with whom he has become disillusioned. The former president urged former Georgia Senator David Perdue to oppose incumbent Gov. Brian Kemp, who opposed Trump’s efforts to reverse his small 2020 loss to the state to then-candidate Joe Biden.
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Former presidents usually leave the spotlight after leaving office, refraining from including themselves in their party primaries. But a person close to Trump compared the former president to the mob patriarch Vito Corleone in “The Godfather” movie for his efforts to retaliate against Republicans who criticized him for inciting the January 6 uprising in the Capitol or because he voted to pass Biden’s $ 1.2 trillion. infrastructure plan. Trump “has pulled strings behind the scenes and led candidates in the right direction,” this person said.
Republican Party destroyed by Trump
America no longer has two political parties. There’s the pro-democracy Democratic Party, and there’s the authoritarian personality cult Trump party.
Anyone who thought Trump would walk away or disappear from the scene after losing has not paid attention for the past six years. The Republican Party had a chance to kick Trump, but they were too weak, and the natural right-wing impulse to authoritarianism was too strong to resist Trump.
Trump runs the Republican Party.
The media needs to understand what the Republican Party has become and stop treating it as if it were a normal party. Trump is trying to clean up the people who opposed his coup so that when he tries the same overthrow again in 2024, there will be no one left within the Republican Party to stop him.
Trump is acting like a mob boss, and that’s exactly the way prosecutors should take him down.
Mr. Easley is the managing editor. He is also a White House Press Pool and a congressional correspondent for PoliticusUSA. Jason holds a bachelor’s degree in political science. His graduate work focused on public policy, specializing in social reform movements.
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