Warning to Senate Republicans

The midterm election landslide restoring Democrats to control of the House of Representatives offers an urgent warning to Senate Republicans. If they single-mindedly back President Trump as House Republicans did in 2018, they will end up in the same position, which is where Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) appears to be leading them today.

Senate Republicans must confront and address the fact that Trump has spoken more outright falsehoods than every previous president combined and does not govern as the president of the United States. He governs as the president of the Trump base, to the exclusion of all other Americans who he repeatedly and aggressively ignores, insults, berates or treats as enemies.

This is a formula for political disaster as House Republicans learned the hard way in 2018, Trump will learn the hard way in the 2020 elections, and Senate Republicans will learn the hard way unless they heed the warnings that are loud and clear from American voters.

Consider the Trump government shutdown, so-named because the president is on tape claiming ownership of it during a meeting with Democratic leaders, caused by the infamous “wall” that is an unpopular fraud built on a proven lie, which House Democrats won a decisive mandate to defeat in the midterm elections.

https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/424643-budowsky-warning-to-senate-republicans