The wild reaction to the Mar-a-Lago raid by major GOP figures with no idea of its purpose or findings is revealing. ed_kilgore writes
Trump and his loyal lieutenant Kevin McCarthy. Photo: Anna Moneymaker/The New York Times/POOL/Getty Images When a law-enforcement agency undertakes a stealthy investigatory action involving a private citizen, government officials are usually reticent to say much about it until the underlying facts are disclosed. But there is nothing normal about the reflexive loyalty of Republican elected officials toward Donald Trump.
Trump’s previously scheduled Tuesday dinner with GOP House members has now, as the Washington Post reports, taken on the air of lieutenants getting their instructions before going to battle against their enemies: “Most effective president in a lifetime or more” is a nice toadying touch in referring to the capo di tutti capi. And you can expect such statements to proliferate; as Politico notes, Trump and his closest associates are watching to see who reacts most loudly to this terrible outrage to the dignity of the former president:
It’s interesting to watch Republican politicians who can barely draw a breath without making law-and-order appeals for total solidarity with police attack the entire federal law-enforcement system as corrupt and evil.
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