After losing the presidency and the Senate thanks to Donald Trump’s disastrous management, Republicans look determined to try to ascend again in Washington by parroting his "stolen election" lies. If you can’t snap out of a slumber, it seems, the second best thing is to dive back into the delusions of your dream.
Consider Ohio, where Jane Timken, former state GOP chair, has boasted of turning the party into “a well-oiled, pro-Trump machine.” Another Senate candidate, former state Treasurer Josh Mandel, called Rep. Anthony Gonzalez a “traitor,” the likes of whom should be “eradicated from the Republican Party,” after Gonzalez voted to impeach Trump.
If the Republican Party in Ohio has been swallowed whole by Trump, even as his free-fall dive off the deep end continues, even as he and his confidantes, buying into a clinically insane conspiracy theory, seem to think his return to the Oval Office could come as soon as August, what hope does the national GOP have?