There seems no depth too low for GOP “leaders” to sink in their fealty to Donald Trump. Look no further than a New York courtroom.
U.S. Speaker of the House Mike Johnson, center, and businessman Vivek Ramaswamy listen as former President Donald Trump, left, talks with reporters as he arrives at Manhattan criminal court in New York on May 14, 2024. The procession of Republican Party standard-bearers through a New York City courtroom to pay fealty to and express outrage on behalf of Donald Trump hasn’t been surprising. But it has been depressing.
For a short time trial balloons were floated for the potential election of Trump himself as speaker following the fratricidal ousting last year of Speaker Kevin McCarthy. If Trump had decided he wanted the job — he didn’t, thank heavens — God only knows what GOP House members would have done. The conversion of Vance perhaps is the single best example of how Trump has transformed the Grand Old Party into a cult of personality rather than a coherent set of principles and values. Vance already was rich, having written the best-selling memoir “Hillbilly Elegy” and having garnered handsome payments from a stint as a venture capitalist, when he decided to run for Senate in Ohio in 2022.
And for whose benefit is this homage paid? A man alleged to have bedded a porn star while his wife was home with his infant son and then employed intermediaries such as Cohen and former National Enquirer publisher David Pecker to cover up that misdeed . Yes, his peers. We elect presidents in the United States, not kings or rulers. Our constitutional framers warned against just this sort of cultish phenomenon and set up a system to thwart its progress.
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