Trump's continued dominance over Republicans is a 'stage four cancer diagnosis for the GOP': op-ed

Writing in The Daily Beast this Wednesday, David Rothkopf says that Republicans who voted to acquit Donald Trump in his impeachment trial made clear that their colleagues who voted to convict have no place in the Republican Party.

Rothkopf cites the now infamous comment from Pennsylvania GOP official Dave Ball, who chided Sen. Pat Toomey (R-PA) for voting to convict.

"We did not send him there to vote his conscience. We did not send him there to 'do the right thing' or whatever," Ball said.

"The GOP social media universe has not only seen condemnation of those who vote to convict, even Mitch McConnell who effectively ensured that Trump would not be convicted, was getting battered for simply having stated the facts of the case and justifiably excoriating Trump after his vote to nonetheless acquit him," Rothkopf writes. "He has since been targeted by the likes of Sean Hannity, who declared that, 'The time is now coming for new leadership in the U.S. Senate.'"

According to Rothkopf, polls that show Trump dominating the potential 2024 field are basically a "stage four cancer diagnosis for the GOP."

"It shows the consequences of four years of Trump. But it shows something worse," writes Rothkopf. "It shows the consequences of tens of millions of Americans buying into Trump's lies, embracing his anger, celebrating his prejudices and seeking to make the party stand more as testament to the flaws of one man than it does for any ideas or values of any sort. It is a party that is not just defending but is actively promoting white supremacist domestic terrorism. That is no longer an aberration."

Read the full article over at The Daily Beast.