Donald Trump may have made the decision to launch the war that tanked voters’ support for the GOP and dealt them a midterm shellacking. But the historic losses are accelerating a push for someone else to take the fall: Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth.
And the House could vote as soon as next week to impeach the Pentagon’s top leader.
Many Republican lawmakers and allies alarmed by Tuesday’s wipeout are moving swiftly to pin blame for the election results on Hegseth, arguing behind the scenes that he played a chief role in convincing Trump to attack Iran with no exit strategy — and no plan for managing the inevitable political fallout.
The knives-out campaign comes despite private acknowledgement from House and Senate GOP strategists that the party’s problems extended far beyond the war, triggering 2008-level losses that will take years to reverse. But for now, party leaders – and many in their ranks – remain unwilling to directly blame Trump for their woes.
Knowing democrats. This will be their one. Get it. Celebrate all over the internet. And then just stop going after traitors and pedophiles.
The problem with trying to get votes by accusing your competition of being outright criminals is that when you get into power, you need to follow up on that claim. Then it turns out that you were just lying and no investigation actually turns up anything.
And now the people who took those claims seriously expect lots of people go to jail and nobody does, and they think that the system is rigged. But it was just mundane lying.
(I don’t know if GOP are actual criminals actually, just extrapolating from how these have gone in the past)