My hats off to Thom Hartmann for his daily sub stack email of Thursday. His email stated that the Republican Party has chosen to have Trump as their leader. Because of that their party will forever be condemned to have the stench of Trump as their legacy. Thom pulls no punches.

Dear GOP: You’ll Never Wash the Stink of Trump Off You or Your Party. Never.

At least never in the lifetime of anybody around today. Trump’s stink is a tragic part of American history that will last generations…

DEC 7, 2023

Dear Republicans,

After the corruption of the Coolidge and Hoover administrations crashed the world economy, kicking off the Republican Great Depression in 1929, it took your party decades to rid itself of the stink.

After Nixon extended the Vietnam War to get himself re-elected, unnecessarily killing over 20,000 American soldiers and a million Vietnamese civilians, and then got busted for Watergate and the bribes he solicited in the White House, it took you almost a generation to rid yourselves of the stink.

But you’ll never rid yourself of the stink of Donald Trump. At least never in the lifetime of anybody around today. Trump’s stench is a tragic part of American history that will last generations.

The entire world knows the foetor of his whipping up a crowd of thousands to try to assassinate the Vice President of the United States and the Speaker of the House.

Trump’s minions urinated on the carpets in the hallowed halls of Congress, smeared feces on the walls, damaged priceless paintings from the founding era of our country, and murdered police officers protecting our nation’s Capitol. That stink will never fade, no matter how often his allies try to rewrite history, blur faces, or tell stories about bizarre “deep state” conspiracies.

Did you think Americans would forget the stink of the 30,000+ documented lies he told America and the world while he was president? Or the lies he routinely spouts every time he speaks in public, so frequent now that even Fox “News” has to correct the facts when covering him?

How about the reek of his dictator-like pronouncements that he will destroy the American Civil Service and fill our government with corrupt toadies, then imprison his political enemies and send the military into the streets like Maduro has done in Venezuela and tinpot dictators do all across the world?

Do you really believe that we would forget the stink of his sucking up to murderous dictators like Putin, MBS, and Kim? Now that effluvium is being smeared all over Republican politicians, one after another, as they follow Trump’s orders — which he no doubt received from Putin — to abandon Ukraine.

You are cowards, all. Covered in your wretched, cowardly, unpatriotic stink.

There is much more at the link. He goes into the corruption, using government power to tear apart families and his purported rapes and other crimes.

As we head into Iowa’s caucuses I continue to be gobsmacked that Iowans – once considered to be salt of the earth people – will caucus for this felon, this criminal, this insurrectionist. Any reputation that Iowans had as a good people will be forever destroyed on Republican caucus night.