It’s a political base problem few are willing to admit.
Republicans are imploding over Jeffrey Epstein, and the evidence is hard to miss. The panic among GOP lawmakers is unlike anything I’ve seen in a decade of reporting on Congress.
Republicans can’t keep their heads down and trust that the base will keep holding them up, because the Republican base is what’s causing the current panic.
Far-right lawmakers are anxiously trying to navigate around the Scylla of Trump and congressional leadership pushing them to hold off on the Epstein issue, and the Charybdis of the hot-headed multitudes who lifted them into office after getting them to promise to reveal every dark secret of the Epstein case.
Every little bit helps. My dad changed his vote in 2016. My mom opted out in 2016 and changed her vote in 2020, and is now campaigning for Democrats. For that matter, I voted for Bush, McCain, and Romney before discovering how I’d been lied to and voting for Clinton, Biden, and Harris (and now I’m literally a democratic socialist). I know people who haven’t changed their vote, but who stopped campaigning for the GOP. I know people who are only voting in local races now.
The articles aren’t just hopium. The base is diminishing; it’s just not going as fast as we would like. Maybe the Epstein thing will finally do it.
I appreciate the comment and it is certainly good to see some change among the populace. I personally haven’t seen that change and if anything have seen people who touted themselves as neutral before somehow finding all of this acceptable. But I am always happy to see that some have actually changed their opinions.
I really hope you do soon. Hey, look at it this way, you’ve met one now!
I appreciate the comment and it is certainly good to see some change among the populace. I personally haven’t seen that change and if anything have seen people who touted themselves as neutral before somehow finding all of this acceptable. But I am always happy to see that some have actually changed their opinions.