'Trump Pulls A New Fixation Out Of Thin Air And House GOP Runs Off The Cliff With It'

"House Republicans who have accepted Trump as their party leader the last few years have long followed this playbook to keep themselves publicly in Trump’s good graces: Trump mumbles about something in public (or all caps screams about it on Truth Social). The MTGs of the world turn his vision into incoherent or impassable legislation. The proposals go nowhere — and often do some work in exposing the Republican Party’s dysfunction in Congress along the way — but they succeed in helping to make a news cycle out of Trump’s most deranged fixations. Lather, rinse, repeat."

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