This Is How It’s Done: Trump’s Congressional Allies Working To Expunge Impeachments

But that’s how it was throughout the GOP establishment – in Congress, in right-leaning journalism, and in the so-called conservative think tanks. It didn’t matter that Trump was doing exactly what the establishment cretins had been preaching about for years. Trump wasn’t a card-carrying GOP club member, but a rough-and-tumble New York businessman outsider. How dare he actually come into office and do those things they were preaching about? A club member president was supposed to be doing them!

Only, club member GOP presidents had never done those things, either. Turns out the GOP establishment never really believed what they were preaching. They were just ‘loyal opposition.’ They were all William Kristols.

The same establishment that was bailing on Trump’s GOP was part of the same uniparty that then went after Trump in the form of two impeachments. Some of the GOP establishment voted to convict, and most of them are gone now, with Sen. Bill Cassidy of Louisiana, the last turncoat holdover, having lost his primary last month.

After all this, though, Trump may finally get some absolution: