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Negative Trump Coattails Good for Senate
Thank you
Donald for
your key role
t oM h. h astings
Donald Trump is in
love.
Like any narcissist, he
sees his heart’s desire in
the mirror and is patholog-
ically incapable of trans-
ferring that love of self to
others, except to love what they
can do for him—financially, sexu-
ally, politically, or simply helping
him be in the spotlight.
For Trump, everything is a con-
test and he is the best at every one.
If he doesn’t win, others obvious-
ly cheated or his helpers failed
him. He has made exactly zero
mistakes in his life that weren’t
caused by others, as he sees it.
It has all caught up with him at
last, and the Trump circus tent is
collapsing. Republican candidates
for the U.S. Senate are scrambling
to escape the suffocating mess.
Some renounce their endorse-
ments, some express regretful
continuation of support for the
Trumpwreck, and some avert their
eyes, curl up, and just hope to sur-
vive the election.
But imagine a US Senate out
from under the blockading, blud-
geoning control of the Republi-
by
cans. I’m not suggesting the Dem-
ocrats are particularly good for
those who want peace and justice,
but they are light years better than
the likes of Mitch McConnell, Ted
Cruz, Marco Rubio, Ron John-
son, Rob Portman, Jeff
Sessions, Tom Cotton,
Lindsey Graham, John
McCain and the rest of
the
corporate-loving,
New Jim Crow, an-
ti-education, war-prof-
iteer-champions
who
Toomey (Penn.) and Kelly Ayotte
(N.H.). Congressman Joe Heck
(Nev. is running for the seat being
vacated by retiring Harry Reid
and Congressman Todd Young
is running for the seat vacated
by retiring Dan Coats (Ind.). All
these Republicans are threatened
by Trump’s tailspin. My opera-
tive word, I confess, is schaden-
freude today.
Like any true narcissist, Trump
is certain that everyone else is at
fault for his poor performance and
rotten, anti-democracy decisions.
We might see the U.S. join the
rest of the world in signing and
ratifying the International Crim-
inal Court, the Comprehensive
Test Ban and other international
laws and treaties benefitting all
of humankind. We might even
see some glimmer of peace in our
time as well as development of
US infrastructure instead of the
vast war machine that consumes
half your tax dollars every year.
The Senate needs to flip for the
Like any true narcissist, Trump is certain that
everyone else is at fault for his poor performance
and the only response is to attack, excuse, justify,
blame, and lash out some more. If his dysfunctional
displays cost both the White House and the Senate,
we may see a decent Supreme Court in the future and
that could mean overturning Citizens United and
other rotten, anti-democracy decisions.
have been running the Senate for
the past two years.
The Republicans running for
Senate—mostly incumbents—
who are most vulnerable include
Johnson (Wisc.), McCain (Ariz.),
Portman (Ohio), Roy Blunt
(Mo.), Richard Burr (N.C.), Pat
the only response is to attack, ex-
cuse, justify, blame, and lash out
some more. If his dysfunction-
al displays cost both the White
House and the Senate, we may
see a decent Supreme Court in the
future and that could mean over-
turning Citizens United and other
good of all Americans. Thank you,
Donald Trump, for your key role
in all this. Carry on with your bel-
lowing, blaming Tweetment!
Tom H. Hasting is assistant
professor of conflict resolution
at Portland State University and
founding director of PeaceVoice.