One of the most difficult parts of watching Trump disgrace himself in front of the whole world is that brief moment where you wonder if this is it ... will this be the thing that finally breaks through to his followers to reveal to them who he really is?
But we've been here before.
We thought the veil had irreversibly slipped when he bragged about sexual assault on camera.
We assumed he had no more chances when he attempted a coup.
We believed that 34 criminal convictions (and another 17 pending) would matter.
It never mattered. It just shifted the goal posts.
Even on this specific issue; it didn't make a difference to his supporters when we learned that Kremlin representatives had met his campaign officials in Trump Tower and offered to help get him elected.
It couldn't turn the party against him when he was found to have extorted Zelenskyy, withholding aid unless he opened a phony investigation into Hunter Biden.
And when Trump stood next to Putin and declared that he believed him over his own intelligence agencies, his party just made excuses for him.
... and for some reason, we see a despicable moment like this and console ourselves with the notion that surely this depravity was sufficient to prove to even the most cynical minds that Trump is on Putin's side, not America's.
But it won't change a single mind. Not a single Republican will take a stand. Not a single member of this administration will resign in protest. The authorized media will toe the party line, and the narrative will bend to appease this new "truth".
When the story of the collapse of the USA is written, there will be one defining word: cowardice.
This post was edited by my2cents at March 3, 2025 4:59 AM MST
