House Republican admits he knows Donald Trump is going to be ousted
Donald Trump has flip flopped on immigration reform so many times in recent weeks, even he appears to have no idea what he wants. If he gives an inch, his racist base will turn against him. If he sticks to his original hardline position, his dwindling non-base support will shrink even further. Either way, he loses – and so does the GOP. Now one House Republican is flat out admitting that he knows Trump is going to be ousted, and he’s explaining how it’s going to happen.
Trump’s most openly racist adviser Stephen Miller is clearly running Trump’s immigration policy, as he led the White House conference call about the issue today while Trump was overseas. It appears that even the racist Miller is trying to find a way to cave to Democrats on DACA for political reasons, because the vast majority of Americans agree with the Democrats on the issue. The trouble: caving on DACA will make it more difficult for House Republicans in conservative districts to get reelected. This is on top of the fact that Trump’s sheer unpopularity is likely to cause House Republicans in moderate districts to lose their jobs.
Suffice it to say that Trump’s new immigration strategy isn’t going over well within Trump’s own party in Congress. One House Republican, who declined to be named, said this to Politico (link) after the conference call: “This is the beginning of the end of the GOP majority in the House. In a year when the Democrats impeach Trump, we can point to this moment.”
This highlights a larger problem: Donald Trump got to where he is by pushing a losing strategy of pandering to racists, who are a minority of voters, and then relying on his Russian puppet masters to rig the election in his favor. Now he’s married to that racist strategy, and so is his party. If he sticks with it, one segment of House Republicans will lose reelection. If he deviates from it, another segment of House Republicans will lose reelection. Either way, the Democrats are in position to seize the majority, and they’ll begin impeachment hearings the minute the new Congress is sworn in.
