Lapdog Right Sets Stage for a Second Trump Term MUCH Worse Than His First

Conservatives have forgotten the only reason we got as much out of Trump's presidency as we did.

Last week, Donald Trump said he was “honored” to get an (imaginary) endorsement from Black Lives Matter, and the Conservative Infotainment Complex let it slide. So naturally, he did it again.

During a rambling rally in Iowa over the weekend, Trump said:

Did you see where a very respected representative of Black Lives Matter, New England territory, right, New England, endorsed Trump, he said. He didn't necessarily say the Republican Party, he said Trump because, what we’ve done in terms of opportunity zones, and jobs for everybody, frankly, and jobs, historically, if you look at the colleges, the black colleges and universities, I got them ten-year funding, they never had that. They’d have to come to Washington every year, we took care of their funding, and a lot of other things, criminal justice reform, at a very high level, very fair, we’ve gotta be fair. But very, very, something that everybody, really, we had tremendous conservative support.

But criminal justice reform, he came out in favor of Donald Trump and he said, “I am going to do something that's going to surprise some people, but this guy has done more for the black population than any president,” and I think he included Abraham Lincoln, but I am not 100% sure. But, it's a great honor.

As usual whenever the imbecile opens his mouth, there’s a lot to dissect, most of which is the same as we covered last week. But the most important part is the fact that he embraced BLM a second time. It wasn’t a fluke. However much backlash from the initial comment reached him wasn’t enough to impress on him that it was bad for him.

It’s as if the Right has collectively forgotten that the only reason we got as much conservative policy out of Trump’s presidency as we did was by badgering him into appeasing us. The Right wasn’t shy about what we really thought of him—and no, it wasn’t just the National Review/Weekly Standard types.

Pro-life leaders signed a joint letter pleading with Republican primary voters to “support anyone but Donald Trump” because he “cannot be trusted.” Mark Levin repeatedly declared he wouldn’t support Trump in the general (he ultimately changed his mind). Glenn Beck said it would be a “moral, ethical choice” to let Hillary Clinton win instead. Over 160 prominent Republicans condemned him, and while that list was padded with a lot of Swamp types like Jeff Flake and Lisa Murkowski, it also had genuine conservative heavy-hitter Bill Bennett. Even Rush Limbaugh admitted, two months before the election, that “Trump is not a conservative” and lamented, “I wish conservatism was on the ballot.”

Trump was just as unprincipled and egotistical then as he is now, but center-right discontent was loud enough that he knew he couldn’t afford to ignore it. So his team named to prominent positions people like Mike Pence, Steve Bannon, and Kellyanne Conway, pleasing various factions of the Right (whether they were right to be pleased is another matter), convened a group of leading pro-life figures to vouch for him and act as his “brain trust,” and most famously tasked the Federalist Society and Heritage Foundation with compiling his list of (theoretically) conservative Supreme Court nominees. The most popular refrain from conservatives who had reluctantly accepted the need to support Trump over Clinton was that it would be a transactional relationship. And it was...at first.

But as Trump exceeded his low expectations, and as the Left lost its mind in response, he found more and more embrace as “one of us,” and the transactional relationship turned into a submissive one, eventually to a Donald Trump who now feels emboldened to embrace BLM and dictate compromise terms to pro-lifers—and that’s while still needing conservative votes in Republican primaries and (God forbid) a general election.

And if he’s actually elected, and to quote Bannon “never has to go to a voter again”? Watch out.

Trump gave a preview of what that could very well look like over the weekend too, at another Iowa event:

We’re going to fight to give much better healthcare than what you have right now, and this is a newer subject, but Obamacare is a disaster. And I said we’re going to we’re going to do something about it. I saved Obamacare when we got John McCain’s negative vote. You know, he voted against it after campaigning for many, many years. He said, “Uh thumbs down.” That was an amazing night.

But we’re going to fix it because it’s a catastrophe for family budgets. Even Elizabeth “Pocahontas” Warren, have you ever heard of him? Now she’s Pocahontas because of her great Indian heritage. She even said that it needs to be fixed. Pocahontas said it has to be fixed. So we’re going to fix it.

It's anybody's guess what the hell form a Trump-approved replacement for ObamaCare would look like, but it was already enough sign that during his first stab at it he attacked House conservatives for caring about the details. And now he’s invoking Elizabeth Warren in his musings about “fixing” it? That doesn’t rate a mention on talk radio either?

Nobody should be surprised. This is what the alliance between the MAGA Grift Industry and the Conservative Infotainment Complex has been seeding for years. And if Republicans don’t end the madness and replace Trump with a real candidate in the primaries, they can forget about any refunds for this transaction.