People should be pressuring their own local representatives to make sure they ARE voting to release the Epstein Files.
So far in the past 24 hours, Trump’s team has:
- Threatened GOP members with Truth posts
- Placed threatening stories with friendly media outlets
- Called over a dozen House Republicans for secret meetings
I’m sure they will escalate this before any votes happen, but let’s make sure this passes.
Even if they turned on Trump, what could they do?
Trump derives his power from his populist cult. Nobody in the establishment actually likes Trump, they’re scared to confront him because of the cult support that they benefit from. If he lost that support (which is incredibly unlikely at this point, no matter what was revealed), the establishment would turn on Trump immediately, as his usefulness to them would be over.
He has already turned that cult into establishment. The chair of the GOP is his daughter in law. He can easily get someone primaried if he wants.
By establishment I think they mean old/non trump based Republicans, the ones who will probably still be there once the Trump dies and the cult implodes. While Trump is certainly the establishment more or less at this point there isn’t a much better term for that lot.
Many of them retired because they didn’t have a backbone to stand up to Trump and were replaced. GOP currently is the party of Trump. He is the establishment right now.
Yes, precisely. While he certainly has infiltrated a lot of the establishment, the true core that don’t rely on him are who I’m referring to.
The “true core” is who? Many of them have retired or are retiring.
And when his lame duck, almost 80 year old ass is gone (one way or the other), all of the ones that rely on him will be gone as well. His grip on the party is very fragile.
That is regardless of Epstein files. MAGA has consistently under performed when Trump isn’t on the ballot.