I saw this post from Robert Reich and found it to be interesting. Wondering if the usual suspects on this board find this to be plausible:

 

<p style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);">"I had breakfast recently with a friend who's a former Republican member of Congress. Here's what he said:

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<p style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);">Him: Trump is no Republican. He’s just a big fat ego.

<p style="font-family:'Helvetica Neue', Helvetica, Arial, sans-serif;color:rgb(29,33,41);">Me: Then why didn’t you speak out against him during the campaign?


<p style="font-family:inherit;">Him: You kidding? I was surrounded by Trump voters. I’d have been shot.

<p style="font-family:inherit;">Me: So what now? What are your former Republican colleagues going to do?

<p style="font-family:inherit;">Him (smirking): They’ll play along for a while.

<p style="font-family:inherit;">Me: A while?

<p style="font-family:inherit;">Him: They’ll get as much as they want – tax cuts galore, deregulation, military buildup, slash all those poverty programs, and then get to work on Social Security and Medicare – and blame him. And he’s such a fool he’ll want to take credit for everything.

<p style="font-family:inherit;">Me: And then what?

<p style="font-family:inherit;">Him (laughing): They like Pence.

<p style="font-family:inherit;">Me: What do you mean?

<p style="font-family:inherit;">Him: Pence is their guy. They all think Trump is out of his mind.

<p style="font-family:inherit;">Me: So what?

<p style="font-family:inherit;">Him: So the moment Trump does something really dumb – steps over the line – violates the law in a big stupid clumsy way … and you know he will ...

<p style="font-family:inherit;">Me: They impeach him?

<p style="font-family:inherit;">Him: You bet. They pull the trigger."


 

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