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To: Cogito Ergo Sum who wrote (168519)	2/15/2021 3:43:38 AM
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re "I agree with you M.. Dems had nothing to gain... a possible Pyrrhic victory .. but not even that likely ... this was perfect for Mr. Trump... No idea why they did it... Maybe they missed the rules of engagement in this :(" We shall see whether Trumpism can survive any longer than McCarthyism... Why Donald Trump could melt away Opinion by Larry Tye Wed February 3, 2021 (CNN) - Donald Trump followed Sen. Joseph McCarthy's how-to-be-a-demagogue playbook to the letter throughout his shocking rise to power and stormy four-year presidency. Now, with the Senate set to launch his second impeachment trial, Trump should take one more lesson from McCarthy. The Red-baiting lawmaker vowed to fight on after the political establishment shunned him in 1954 -- and his millions of boosters were ready to rally yet again -- but instead the seemingly shameless Republican from Wisconsin quietly decamped in a way that helped the nation heal. Trump's debt to "Low Blow" Joe was apparent from the first. In lieu of solutions, the former president, like the senator, pointed fingers. Attacked, both bullies aimed wrecking balls at their assailants. When one charge against a manufactured enemy was exposed as specious, they lobbed fresh bombshells. Each made his name into a ubiquitous brand. Neither had a master plan other than accruing and hanging onto power. Both astounded the world and themselves by rising as far and fast as they did. Candidate Trump bragged to supporters in 2016 that "I could stand in the middle of Fifth Avenue and shoot somebody, and I wouldn't lose any voters." Sixty-two years earlier, polling pioneer George Gallup offered an eerily similar forecast about McCarthy's minions: "Even if it were known that McCarthy had killed five innocent children, they would probably still go along with him." The connection between the two is more than hypothetical. The flesh-and-blood link was Roy Marcus Cohn, an ingenious and imperious attorney from New York. In the 1970s, an aging Cohn taught the fledgling Trump the lessons he had learned a quarter century before from his then-boss McCarthy -- how to slander opponents and contrive grand conspiracies. Trump has celebrated his connections with Cohn although never, ever with McCarthy. McCarthy gripped the public's imagination for precisely as long as Trump -- a full four years. At the start of 1954, the anti-communist senator's favorability ratings were higher than the anti-immigrant president's ever were, with a full 50% of Americans saying he was doing a good job and his name implanted in public discussion as an "ism" that became synonymous with reckless accusation and guilt-by-association. But then McCarthy put in his crosshairs an enemy too big to bully, the mighty US Army, the most stouthearted and sacrosanct institution in America, and which had just waged a lethal war on the Korean Peninsula against Communists. By the end of the Senate's famous Army-McCarthy hearings, the senator's popularity had sunk to 34%, which is almost exactly where today's polls put Trump. Full story: cnn.com