NYT reporter on CNN wants a 9/11 commission styled commission to look into this nonsense because Nunes fucked his intel panel. There's zero chance Trump will ask for a commission to look into this.
Everything that happens from now on, will be based on either explosive revelations (the actual peepee tape or a recorded conversation) or GOP long term strategy. The latter as of today will be to pretend everything is normal and go as far as they possibly can without saying "Yeah he's a traitor and we don't care," or that a piece of information is made clear to them that they need to real quick get on the right side of history. They won't do ANYTHING unless they end up with some information that's so black and white, that they can't delay or talk around it.
But already they are making decisions that are 100% counter to Trump's "vision" and they may be more fractious than I think. But no matter what happens, I think a list of GOPers who nakedly and
knowingly supported a Russian stooge should be made and recorded and amplified.
the trickier issue is the Base arithmetic. It worked by a hair's breadth with a completely passive electorate, that was too lazy to vote and thought Hillary had it in the bag, always voted on party lines, or actually supported Trump passionately. And remember, Trump won with one of the most fragile statistics in US history - a SUBSET of 25% of the actual electorate. If Hillary had been Barack Season One (in terms of dem energy), he'd have taken one of the worst beatings in GOP history.
So the GOP knows that. And they don't want to alienate that base, but the base loves a candidate who's inarguably the least qualified president ever, and literally one of the worst people ever, but it's still the base. A base that is quieter and quieter in Town Halls, and shrinking in part from embarassment. They will get noisy and energized, but there's less of them than in November. And the fence sitters have never had an easier decision to make.
So what's the arithmetic in the midterms? In 2020? In special elections?
And that's IF you think this clownbus is going to drive that far.
Sadly, the dems aren't a meaningful aspect of what happens next. We were too lazy to vote, and now we're too shook to do anything about it. The Supremem Court fillibuster will be interesting to watch, because that could be the Supreme Court justice who decides Trump's fate. WHICH IS CRAZY.