When Will MAGA Replace the GOP?

I have to give Shithead Trump credit for one thing. He is the very first national political candidate who has no what Grandpa would call ‘rachmones’ (read: modesty) at all. This guy will say whatever he says whether there’s the slightest bit of truth to it or not. And even though the Fake News will sometimes bother to respond to his lying with a corrective, nobody ever reads that far down the text.

When the Suozzi election victory became clear Tuesday night, Trump went on his little Truth Social soapbox and claimed that the GOP loser — Mazi Pilip — had herself to blame by not running as a gung-ho MAGA type. Trump then went on to say that he had a “99% endorsement success rate’ in primary elections this year, a claim which is completely false.

Trump’s statement wasn’t just a slight difference of opinion from what has really been happening this year, or any other year, for that matter. The statement was completely and totally untrue, i.e., it was a lie.

How do we define the word ‘lie?’ You know something to be true and you consciously say something else.

Until Trump came along, politicians usually went out of their way to at least create the impression that what they said was to some degree based on verifiable facts. That criteria for deciding what is said and what is not said in the public political narrative is…