Trump claims another victim: the Republican Party

The gutless wonders at the helm of the GOP continue to support Donald Trump. Even though his last atrocity, turning the Capitol Building into a crime scene, made clear to the world in explicit video after video that something truly noxious had crawled out of the Washington swamp—the president himself.

Donald Trump will slip back into the swamp, where he will digest the party he has swallowed whole and America will finally know what the Republicans stand for, writes Michael Harris. Photograph courtesy of Gage Skidmore/Commons Wikimedia

Opinion

BY MICHAEL HARRIS

February 8, 2021

HALIFAX—So the Creature from Mar-a-Lago has claimed another victim: the Republican Party. The gutless wonders at the helm of the GOP continue to support Donald Trump. Even though his last atrocity, turning the Capitol Building into a crime scene, made clear to the world in explicit video after vi...

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