The GOP suicide mission? Their poohbahs’ belief that they can save the party by bowing before the ascendant left shows how disconnected they are from voters.

 Bookworm Room  "One thing that’s become clear in the past week is that the Republican party in Washington, D.C., is completely disconnected from the ordinary Americans that, of necessity, have looked to the GOP as their political home because it’s the “not-leftist” party. On the ground, outside of D.C., these reluctant GOP allies still support Trump. Whether, with Trump gone, they will support the GOP is a good question.

"Even as voters yearn for Trump, this is what’s happening in the Swamp:

Senator Mitch McConnell, the departing majority leader, privately told associates that he believed Trump had committed impeachable offenses and welcomed Democrats’ efforts to impeach him, thinking it could help the G.O.P. purge the president from its bloodstream. On the House side, Representative Kevin McCarthy, the minority leader, has decided not to lobby members of his party to vote against impeaching Trump.

Representative Liz Cheney, the No. 3 Republican in the House, announced yesterday that she would vote to impeach the president. In a statement, she said that the president bore the responsibility for the attack on the Capitol. “Everything that followed was his doing,” she said, later writing that there had “never been a greater betrayal by a president of the United States of his office and his oath to the Constitution.”

"Or if you listened to Tucker Carlson last night, you got to hear Fox’s Brit Hume fulminate against Trump, assert that there was no election fraud, and crave the normalcy that impeaching Trump would bring. And Hume probably still wonders why Fox lost 40% of its audience after the election. I still watch Tucker because, while I won’t forgive him for pretending there’s no election fraud, he’s still one of the few people in America brave enough to speak out against the Left’s having recently elevated cancel culture from a university practice to a full-blown fascist political movement.

"But back to those Republican Washington insiders who are determined to destroy Trump. My question is whether they have any idea who their constituents are? I don’t think so." . . .