Grand Theft

Trump and his minions are stealing the midterms

Trump, wallowing in the cellar of his awful polling, was facing a rout of his Congressional cronies in November’s midterm elections and eventual accountability. Americans are fed up with his awful policies that are causing economic pain and disgust with his narcissistic destruction of physical and metaphorical institutions. They’re exhausted by his grift, graft and potential criminality related to the Epstein Files. His flunkies in Congress were expected to be tossed out in record numbers, so much so many of them have chosen to just throw in the towel and quit early. But aided by the Supreme Court’s gutting of the Voting Rights Act and by GOP-controlled legislatures in red states eager to please Dear Leader by redrawing their voting maps, it looks as if Trump’s enablers in Congress may hang on. It’s an unprecedented broad-daylight burglary of an election, the likes of which America has never experienced before. It’s possible their felonious attempts will backfire and there are still enough angry voters spread all around to thwart the heist, but the math just got a lot more difficult.

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