Why GOP Senator Ben Sasse did what he just did to Donald Trump
Donald Trump’s new executive orders, which provide minimal financial relief to the public while cutting off Social Security and Medicare funding, are so blatantly unconstitutional that they likely won’t hold up for long. But even before the courts can get involved, Republican Senator Ben Sasse is calling Trump’s executive orders “unconstitutional slop.” So what’s he really up to?
Ben Sasse likes to paint himself as a reasonable moderate-conservative, but his actions have consistently shown him to be a sexist weakling with deranged far-right views who doesn’t really have the guts to stand up to Donald Trump. Yet now he’s picking a fight with Trump, on something that Trump clearly considers to be a key part of trying to save his dying presidency.
One thing about tepid cautious types like Sasse is that they only strike when they’re certain it’s going to work out for them. Sasse is betting that Donald Trump is now too weak to retaliate against him effectively – and Sasse is clearly betting that Trump is going to lose in November.
Of course Ben Sasse certainly wants to run for president himself in four years, by which time he expects Donald Trump to be widely viewed as a pariah who destroyed the Republican Party. Sasse wants to be able to point back to nominal acts of defiance he took against Trump, such as the statement he released tonight, as supposed evidence that he was always trying to save the Republicans from Trump. But we have long memories, and we all know that Sasse has been a do-nothing coward when it counted most.
