Again: Aren’t You All Tired of This Crap?

By Charles C. W. Cooke

Friday, June 09, 2023

 

In the wake of the federal indictment against Trump — which, unlike the Bragg nonsense, is absolutely devastating — I’ll ask again: Aren’t you all tired of this crap? Don’t you want to get past it? Don’t you want to do some politics for a change? How much longer do we all have to put up with this garbage?

 

We’re now in year eight of Donald Trump’s nonsense, and he’s getting worse, not better. Trump lost in 2020. Then he tried to rewrite the Twelfth Amendment and the Electoral Count Act of 1887 to steal the election. Then he interfered in the 2022 primaries, with disastrous political consequences. Now he’s been indicted for stealing highly classified documents — which, yes, is not the same as a conviction, and which should not be confused with one, but which has clearly happened as a result of his total disregard for the rules. What, in Heaven’s name, is the case for keeping him around? He’s broken his oath of office. He’s repeatedly revealed himself to be completely unfit for the presidency. He’s shown he can’t win. Politicians are servants. Trump isn’t serving anything or anyone. Why is he still in the conversation?

 

As a voter, I want to achieve things. I want to cut the size of government, balance the budget, increase American energy production, limit the power of the bureaucracy, appoint originalist judges, protect the Bill of Rights, protect unborn life, promote school choice, rid our public institutions of self-loathing nonsense, and much more besides. Trump isn’t helping with that; he’s hurting. Not only does he lose elections, he puts persuadable people off the conservative message. Media people like to note that Trump “sucks up all the oxygen in the room.” He does, but that isn’t a good thing. Normal people don’t like constant drama. Normal people decide elections. If you don’t care about any of that, then you’re not actually engaged in politics; you’re in a cult.