On Tuesday, Trump announced that the GOP budget bill should help only Republican states. He said he wanted to help all states, but because some states have Democratic governors, they should be denied the benefits.
During his 'get with the program' visit to Capitol Hill — a Saddam Hussein-style attempt to strong-arm support for his $4 trillion debt-busting bill — he announced:
"We're going to make a couple of tweaks. I mean, we don't want to benefit Democrat governors, although I would do that if it made it better, but they don't know what they're doing.
We want to help all the states, but we have governors that are from the Democrat [sic] party, let's say New York, Illinois, big ones, and let's say Gavin' Newscum,' who's done a horrible job in California."
(Note: If you want to see how the real Saddam dealt with his party, there is a video at the bottom)
No doubt this division of states by the party of their governor is catnip to all the MAGAs living in the solidly red states — although two of them, KY and KS, have Democratic Governors. However, it might cause some consternation for MAGA voters in swing states won by Trump that also have Democratic Governors, AZ, MI, NC, PA, and WI.
What about those poor MAGA voters in states Harris won? Trump is so thin-skinned and vengeful he'll throw them in the crapper to salve his fragile ego and score cheap political points.
In case the reader wondered, over a third of Trump's voters — a full 26,482,814 red-cap citizens — live in those blue states. In California, 6,081,697 citizens pulled the lever for the orange malignancy. In New York, 3,578,899. In Illinois, 2,449,079. How much evidence do these benighted voters need to realize their boy is not their friend?
Trump has again spat in the eye of the American experiment simply because he is a coward and a bully.
Democratic Presidents have always announced that they will be the President for all the people, regardless of who the people voted for. Republican Presidents used to do the same. It is a fundamental political decency. Everyone knows that politicians take care of those who got them there. Yet custom and tradition demand that they rhetorically put partisanship behind them and take the stage as the Chief Executive of all Americans.
It is an idea rooted in American history.
The Constitution makes no mention of political parties. And, while the Founders were aware of 'factions' as they called them, their ideal President was merely a man (it was 1787 and we have yet to have a woman in the job) whose domestic responsibility was to execute whatever laws Congress passed.
Even highly activist Presidents, FDR being a prime example, did not try to deny the benefits of the New Deal to Republican states. LBJ was well aware conservative whites would hate his Great Society initiative. However, he didn't threaten to restrict the benefits to states with Governors politically aligned with him.
But that was then. We now live in a thugocracy. Saddam would have seen a lot of himself in Trump.
