Now that Donald Trump has authored Republicans’ third national electoral rebuke in four years, the party that collectively surrendered to his dangerous buffoonery has devised an equally brilliant strategy for emerging from its resulting marginalization: They’re simply going to “move on.”
“Republicans are ready to move on without Donald Trump,” said a Fox News column declaring the resoundingly reelected governor of Florida, Ron DeSantis, “the new Republican Party leader.” Virginia Lt. Gov. Winsome Earle-Sears, who campaigned for Trump in 2020, warned that “a true leader understands when they have become a liability.” And Maryland Gov. Larry Hogan, a member of the party’s vestigial rational wing, told CNN that the midterm election was Trump’s third strike and he was therefore out.
But politics ain’t baseball any more than it’s beanbag. Republican elites planning to “move on” to a glimmering post-Trump future should ask Atlantic City and Mike Pence how that turned out.
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