How Come the GOP Still Loves Trump?

Emanuel Celler represented a Brooklyn Congressional District from 1923 until he lost a primary election to an unknown attorney, Liz Holtzman, in 1972. Celler was not only the longest serving member of Congress from New York but headed the powerful House Judiciary Committee when Holtzman eked out a 600-vote victory out of more than 20,000 votes.

Until recently, only members of the Democratic caucuses in the Senate and the House lived with stories like the story of Emanuel Celler. Republicans didn’t have primaries because Republicans have never been all that enamored of the concept or practice of voting anyway.

But the world changes, even the political world inhabited by the GOP. And to his credit, this new interest in voting within the ranks of the GOP happens to have been the handiwork of a guy named Donald Trump.

The Fake News media may want you to believe that the subpoena of Trump by the January 6th Committee is a ‘bombshell,’ but to me it’s nothing more than another version of an Aesop’s fable about how the mountain roared and then out came a mouse.

Donald Trump didn’t want to admit defeat in the 2020 Presidential campaign? That’s a new one. Donald Trump began planning a way to hold onto the White House even if it meant staging a coup? Never heard that one before. Donald Trump is an autocrat and an…