The other DrC has long thought of Donald Trump as “my bully.” If I understand her, she means something like “Yes, he’s a bully but he’s hassling my enemies, people who richly deserve punishing so he’s okay.” And I’ve largely agreed with her.
He was even okay when he was picking on RINOs like Jeb Bush, and Jeb’s brother George. During the 2016 primary it became clear he was an equal-opportunity bully, Republicans were great targets too. But then he won the nomination and turned his invective on Democrats, who were the enemy, and that was him just doing the job we picked him for, him being our attack dog.
Now he’s turning his ire on Republicans who, unlike himself, have had recent electoral success. That is not okay.
Here we come to a parting of the ways. What is important to us isn’t what is important to him. We want the populist/nationalist program to move forward, he wants Donald Trump to move forward.
What Trump wants isn’t automatically the key to what we want, although in 2016 it was. We have goals, he has ambitions. He expects our loyalty is to him, when our loyalty is to the goals which he once espoused but which now some other champion may be able to actualize better, with less baggage.
