This is not a small thing. Steven Calabresi, co-founder of the right wing Federalist Society has just written an op ed in the
NYT. Here's his first two graphs...
Quote:I have voted Republican in every presidential election since 1980, including voting for Donald Trump in 2016. I wrote op-eds and a law review article protesting what I believe was an unconstitutional investigation by Robert Mueller. I also wrote an op-ed opposing President Trump’s impeachment.
But I am frankly appalled by the president’s recent tweet seeking to postpone the November election. Until recently, I had taken as political hyperbole the Democrats’ assertion that President Trump is a fascist. But this latest tweet is fascistic and is itself grounds for the president’s immediate impeachment again by the House of Representatives and his removal from office by the Senate.
Permit me to be a cynic here. It's becoming increasingly obvious to Republican strategists and many high level conservatives that November is going to be a disaster for them. And if/when that happens, how are they going to recover? Obviously, they will have to rebrand their party and movement. They will have to, somehow, present a "new" face that pushes Trumpism down the memory hole. The beginnings of that process may well be what we're seeing here. No better explanation presents itself to me at this moment.