re: #39 451_Montag

I’m feeling a bit more optimistic. If Mueller comes through with a couple more indictments, I thinking January. If tax reform is abandoned or fails at a vote that could be the last straw. None of the GOP grown-ups have done anything to defend him this week. Bannon the ambulatory cirrhosis liver messing with them? That’s done nothing to help Trump either.

I don’t think so. They won’t win any brownie points for turning on Trump, but they will lose the GOP base if they turn on him. Congressional Republicans are still less popular with the GOP base than Trump is. They need Trump voters to turn out next November, and they need to avoid primary challenges from Trumpists. So I expect them to stick with Trump at least through the mid-terms. From their pov, that’s the least bad choice in the run-up to the mid-terms.