Trump doesn't need to start a new political party

He already has one: The Republican Party

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That’s what they’re talking about, you know.  Donald Trump is thinking of starting his own political party.

Why?  He’s already got one. We’ve seen all the polling of Republicans – 75 percent of them, 80 percent of them, 72 percent of them, some massive percentage, anyway, support him wholeheartedly.  They think the election was stolen from him.  They think he won the election by “a landslide,” as he told them.  They believe him by a huge margin to be the greatest president in the history of the country. 

We may think him to have been an empty shell as president, but Trump has always been an excellent salesman.  Maybe he should just rebrand the party, call it the “Trump Party,” or the “MAGA Party,” or the “Elephant’s Ass Party,” or anything he wants, because it’s his.  It belongs to him, lock stock and putter. 

They followed him when he capitulated to Vladimir Putin in Helsinki, standing next to the diminutive dictator like panting Shepherd, his ears all perked up listening for his master’s whistle, waiting for a pat on his head.  They followed him when he attempted to strip them of  health insurance and consign their children and aunts and uncles with pre-existing conditions to emergency rooms and Mexican miracle cures.  They followed him when he called the deceased Senator John McCain and veterans who died in combat during World War II “losers and suckers.”  They followed him when he sat on his ass in the White House and went golfing every weekend while 400,000 died from the COVID pandemic.  They followed him straight off the cliff into Qanon conspiracy-land when he told them the election had been “stolen” from him, and they turned into a violent, howling mob when he told them to “walk down to the Capitol,” and to not show “weakness” and to “take back our country.”

Tonight, as the House Impeachment Managers carry an article of impeachment to the Senate for the second time, walking beneath the Capitol dome where Trump’s followers waved the Confederate flag and looted offices and killed a Capitol policeman less than three weeks ago, we are hearing that they will follow him once again at his trial and vote to exonerate him from the charge that he incited the riot that turned their own legislative chamber into a crime scene.

What’s next?  Where will they follow him now?  What will they do when he calls them together again and whips them up with appeals to their racism and ignorance and anger? 

We need answers to these questions, because they are already a movement in the tens of millions, a political party if he wants to call them one, or any other damn thing that occurs to him. 

How about the “We’re Going to Take a Giant Dump on Your Head Party.”  That’ll work.