Following up on my post yesterday about the brewing fight between Wisconsin GOP officials and Trump, local Charlie Sykes had this update. The RINOs are running as fast as they can.
On Saturday, Vos, announced that former state Supreme Court Justice Michael Gableman would oversee the 2020 election review.
It was a curious choice. Gableman had been a featured speaker at a post-election pro-Trump rally, where he echoed false election claims.
“I don’t think anyone here can think of anything more systematically unjust than a stolen election,” Gableman told a crowd at a pro-Trump rally staged Nov. 7 in a parking lot at American Serb Hall in Milwaukee.
But this was only the start of the campaign to appease the angry God King.
State Senator Chris Kapenga, one of the targets of Trump’s screed, wrote a fawning 2-page letter to the ex-president telling him (I’m not making this up) that he wore “Trump socks,” and planned to wear a “Trump/Pence mask” when he got on an airplane.
Kapenga explained: “”I figure, if the liberals are going to force me to wear a mask, I am going to make it as painful for them as possible.”
Our cringes cringed. But the cup of humiliation had not yet been drained. Some delegates presented a resolution calling for Vos’s resignation. Even though it was rejected, Trump doubled down on his election lie in a recorded video:
There was, of course, little or no pushback to the Lie from the state GOP — a reminder that despite occasional ineffectual gestures, Republicans have not yet exhausted their capacity for truckling and bootlicking.
Their capacity for genuflecting to Donald Trump is limitless. If he told them all they needed to drink a Hale-Bopp cocktail (the exit drink of the heaven’s Gate cult — phenobarb and vodka) they would do it.
This is who still has them mesmerized: