Trump has made the party complacent

the party is Undeterred to the President, previously followed, never anything out of the Democrats and Republican dissidents brought about spoken uprising of the Republican party against Donald Trump . On the contrary, Trump has made the party complacent. Your base keeps him still Faithful, four-fifths of the respondents Republicans find him just fine.

But they will stand behind Trump, if you brought things to a head and the political Position of the President apparently legal investigation and a downturn in the economy would be weakened by a criminal? Or the grandees of the party in Washington would then, as in the case of Richard Nixon, the emergency brake?

As of the 5. August 1974 was thanks to a Tape made public that Nixon had been working on it for days after the break-in into the democratic headquarters in the Watergate building to actively conceal its Complicity, the congressional Republicans finally by the President. "You can only digest so many lies, and now it has given a much – Nixon should remove his ass from the White house," raged the Senator Barry Goldwater, the Republican presidential candidate of 1964, at a meeting of Republican senators at 6. August.

the next day Goldwater, the Republican minority leader in the Senate, Hugh Scott and John Rhodes, the leader of the party in the house of representatives, met with Nixon in the White house. It was over, said one of the three that the President had lost the support of the party in Congress and has to reckon with a charge survey, and condemnation. "Only 15 senators stand behind them," Goldwater informed the President. "Now I have to cases a difficult decision," adopted by Nixon and his visitors. Two days later, he resigned from office.

The investigations are piling up

a similar Intervention by the Republican party leaders Would be at all conceivable? After all, Donald Trump of a lie lurches to the next, in terms of the likely illegal payment of hush money to Stormy Daniels and Karen McDougal. A lie is revealed, it serves Trump a new one.

Whether the issue is truly non-justiciable, it remains to be seen. And wait, it also applies otherwise, even if the investigations against Trump piling: Robert Mueller is alleged Russia-entanglements of the President and his campaign team, prosecutors in Manhattan are investigating the Bribe.

Video Michael Cohen's damning Interview The U.S. President Donald Trump is supposed to have been threaded, according to his Ex-lawyer, the hush money payments to two former sexual partners themselves. (Video: AFP, ABC)

On Thursday, the "the Wall Street Journal reported:" in addition, New York Federal prosecutors investigated whether or not illegal foreign monies were contributed to a campaign organization, Trumps, as well as the Committee for the financing of Trumps inauguration flowed in exchange for political favors. Also, the authorities of the state of New York to ascertain the trump organization, his Foundation, and against the President: tax evasion, fraud, money-laundering, is the length of the list.

Republican leadership is out to defend the President

nothing must come, but the likelihood grows that Trump in the network of numerous investigations tangled. However, it is uncertain whether the President will stumble on the hush money payments to his alleged sex partners. This is a "democratic revenge fantasy" that it would lead to nothing, says Rich Lowry, the editor of the prestigious conservative sheet, "National Review". And Mueller have been able to demonstrate anything that Trump would really be in distress.

The Republican leadership in the Congress is of the same opinion and defended Trump, until further notice, vehemently. Miles this Republican party is far from its predecessor in the Era of Richard Nixon. Long ago, the liberal wing is lost, continuously, the party has moved since Nixon's resignation, so strongly to the right that Nixon would today named well-hardly a candidate for the presidency. Pushing for this law was the jerk of a base, recruited increasingly from white voters in rural areas, small towns and Exurbia.

the party Was, at the time of Nixon's in New England and California, a political Power, as their bastions in the South and in the rural regions of the Midwest. In the congressional elections in November, the Republicans lost their mandates in large American cities, both in Oklahoma City as well as in southern California, Anaheim, Democrats were elected to the Washington house of representatives.

against The wind the base

When Trump claimed, an indictment against him would trigger in the event of "Rebellion," he might be right. Finally, the President in the Republican enjoys high castles unabated the confidence of the voters and restricts the political space of the Congress, Republicans significantly. Anyone who turns against Trump, must reckon with a strong headwind from the base, as well as the loss of its mandate in the case of intra-party primaries.

at The time of Nixon's resignation, the Watergate burglary was about two years, now it could take even longer, up to a part of the Republican party denied the current President of the fellowship. What would need to happen to move the Senate Republicans a conviction Trumps after a previous indictment by the democratic majority in the house of representatives, is in the stars. So far, nothing is anyway, thus leading Republicans could be forced to see, to walk in the footsteps of Barry Goldwater, John Rhodes and Hugh Scott.

(editing Tamedia)

Created: 15.12.2018, 21:12 PM