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WALL STREET JOURNAL, Weekend Edition, May 20, 2017
“Saving the GOP”
Now that the country has a president under investigations by a Special Counsel and both Houses of Congress, Republicans have to assume they’ll contest next year’s midterms with a damaged, corrupt President and a Democratic base eager to repudiate him by retaking Congress. Republicans will suffer some collateral damage with the Donald Trump scandals still florid, but that’s all the more reason to have something else to talk about. The best defense against scandal by association with Mr. Trump is to point to accomplishments that Republicans and independents will support. That’s also the only way to get enough GOP voters to the polls.
Republicans need to remember, Trump’s morals and ethics character flaws aren’t the GOP’s. Republicans in Congress ran on their own agenda, and House Republicans won millions of more votes than Mr. Trump did. In fact, nationally, Trump came in second, but the Republicans won the last election. They have every right to follow through on their agenda.
It would certainly help if Donald Trump behaved better and controlled himself, but Republicans can’t count on that. It appears the worst problems in the Trump White House are coming still. The Republican Party’s best option is to plow ahead anyway and present the damaged Trump legislation to sign. That’s what Democrats did when they controlled Congress while they investigated Richard Nixon, and they piled up significant policy wins.
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Well now, the unimpeachably conservative WSJ, where real Republicans get their news, makes perfect sense.
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