re: #121 Wendell Zurkowitz ((slave to the waffle light))

Up until he froze up and totally bungled reaction to Covid-19, Trump was a safe gamble for the GOP elite despite all his other shortcomings.

And had it not been for the pandemic, I believe he would have won re-election and the GOP could have gone on to institute laws and other measures to ensure that it would never lose again.

Certainly. He did deliver de-regulation and tax cuts, and managed to buttress goober support by going foghorn on the racism and accepting anointment from pulpit pimps, so they had little to complain about.