{"id":421469,"date":"2022-03-25T01:50:13","date_gmt":"2022-03-24T22:50:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/en.buradabiliyorum.com\/mo-brooks-fiasco-shows-why-republicans-need-to-move-on-from-trump\/"},"modified":"2022-03-25T01:50:13","modified_gmt":"2022-03-24T22:50:13","slug":"mo-brooks-fiasco-shows-why-republicans-need-to-move-on-from-trump","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/mo-brooks-fiasco-shows-why-republicans-need-to-move-on-from-trump\/","title":{"rendered":"#Mo Brooks fiasco shows why Republicans need to move on from Trump"},"content":{"rendered":"<div id=\"ez-toc-container\" class=\"ez-toc-v2_0_85 counter-hierarchy ez-toc-counter ez-toc-custom ez-toc-container-direction\">\n<p class=\"ez-toc-title\" style=\"cursor:inherit\">Table of Contents<\/p>\n<label for=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3db84d1711a\" class=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-label\"><span class=\"\"><span class=\"eztoc-hide\" style=\"display:none;\">Toggle<\/span><span class=\"ez-toc-icon-toggle-span\"><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" class=\"list-377408\" width=\"20px\" height=\"20px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" fill=\"none\"><path d=\"M6 6H4v2h2V6zm14 0H8v2h12V6zM4 11h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2zM4 16h2v2H4v-2zm16 0H8v2h12v-2z\" fill=\"currentColor\"><\/path><\/svg><svg style=\"fill: #dd3333;color:#dd3333\" class=\"arrow-unsorted-368013\" xmlns=\"http:\/\/www.w3.org\/2000\/svg\" width=\"10px\" height=\"10px\" viewBox=\"0 0 24 24\" version=\"1.2\" baseProfile=\"tiny\"><path d=\"M18.2 9.3l-6.2-6.3-6.2 6.3c-.2.2-.3.4-.3.7s.1.5.3.7c.2.2.4.3.7.3h11c.3 0 .5-.1.7-.3.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7zM5.8 14.7l6.2 6.3 6.2-6.3c.2-.2.3-.5.3-.7s-.1-.5-.3-.7c-.2-.2-.4-.3-.7-.3h-11c-.3 0-.5.1-.7.3-.2.2-.3.5-.3.7s.1.5.3.7z\"\/><\/svg><\/span><\/span><\/label><input type=\"checkbox\"  id=\"ez-toc-cssicon-toggle-item-6a3db84d1711a\" checked aria-label=\"Toggle\" \/><nav><ul class='ez-toc-list ez-toc-list-level-1 ' ><li class='ez-toc-page-1 ez-toc-heading-level-1'><a class=\"ez-toc-link ez-toc-heading-1\" href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/mo-brooks-fiasco-shows-why-republicans-need-to-move-on-from-trump\/#%E2%80%9CMo_Brooks_fiasco_shows_why_Republicans_need_to_move_on_from_Trump%E2%80%9D\" >&#8220;Mo Brooks fiasco shows why Republicans need to move on from Trump&#8221;<\/a><\/li><\/ul><\/nav><\/div>\n<h1><span class=\"ez-toc-section\" id=\"%E2%80%9CMo_Brooks_fiasco_shows_why_Republicans_need_to_move_on_from_Trump%E2%80%9D\"><\/span>&#8220;Mo Brooks fiasco shows why Republicans need to move on from Trump&#8221;<span class=\"ez-toc-section-end\"><\/span><\/h1>\n<div>\n<aside class=\"single__inline-module alignleft\">\n<div class=\"inline-module inline-module--columnist inline-module--author\">\n<div class=\"inline-module--author__img\">\n            <img decoding=\"async\" width=\"76\" height=\"69\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/rich-lowry.png?w=76&amp;h=69&amp;crop=1\" class=\"attachment-nyp_columnist size-nyp_columnist\" alt=\"Rich Lowry\" loading=\"lazy\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/rich-lowry.png 76w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2013\/08\/rich-lowry.png?w=38 38w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 76px) 100vw, 76px\"\/>        <\/div>\n<\/div>\n<\/aside>\n<p>An endorsement from Donald Trump, as Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks has learned to his chagrin, is no guarantee against future harsh denunciation.<\/p>\n<p>Trump endorsed Brooks for Senate in the belief that he would say whatever the former president wanted to hear about the 2020 election, then humiliatingly unendorsed him when Brooks faltered in the polls.<\/p>\n<p>Brooks responded by revealing how Trump had pressured him to support throwing President Joe Biden out of office and reinstating him as president, demands so unreasonable that even Brooks didn\u2019t bend to them.<\/p>\n<p>If Trump\u2019s back-and-forth over Brooks is notably sophomoric, it\u2019s not uncharacteristic. Indeed, the Republican Party will continue to be subjected to such spectacles as long as Trump is its dominant figure.<\/p>\n<p>As everyone knows, he\u2019s seriously considering running in 2024. It\u2019s understandable that he\u2019d want to try to ascend once again to the most powerful office in the land. The question for Republicans is why they\u2019d want to go along for this ride one more time.<\/p>\n<p>The party should be entering a new, more discretionary phase in its relationship with Trump. The best argument for him once he was nominated in 2016 was that he was the only alternative to Hillary Clinton and in 2020 that he was the only alternative to Joe Biden.<\/p>\n<p>That isn\u2019t the case now.<\/p>\n<p>Republicans can have their pick of a variety of alternatives in 2024 who don\u2019t personalize everything, who don\u2019t create a haze of chaos around everything they do and who don\u2019t carry more baggage than the underbelly of an Airbus A380-800.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/lowry-trump-446.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Trump\" class=\"wp-image-21652531\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/lowry-trump-446.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/lowry-trump-446.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/lowry-trump-446.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Trump, of course, has qualities other Republicans lack, but they are caught up in his radioactive persona. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP \/ Patrick Semansky<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>There are about 20 other potential Republican candidates: None of them has lost an election to Joe Biden, and none of them has to expend any energy trying to explain away such a defeat.<\/p>\n<p>Any of the other Republicans would offer a relative normality. Imagine Republicans not having to scurry away from reporters every time they ask about something the GOP nominee says.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine having a nominee with a well-thought-out policy agenda, so the Republican Party doesn\u2019t have to go platform-less the way it did in 2020.<\/p>\n<p>Imagine a nominee who can, like Glenn Youngkin did in Virginia, make serious inroads in the suburbs and win the popular vote again.<\/p>\n<p>This vista may not be probable \u2014 if Trump runs again, he\u2019s the prohibitive favorite \u2014 but it is certainly possible.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/lowry-trump-451.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Trump and Biden\" class=\"wp-image-21652534\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/lowry-trump-451.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/lowry-trump-451.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/lowry-trump-451.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Alabama Rep. Mo Brooks says Trump pressured him to support kicking President Joe Biden out of office.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP \/ Patrick Semansky<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>Trump, of course, has qualities other Republicans lack. No one else will be as entertaining or have the same ability to command attention, among other things. But these qualities are caught up in Trump\u2019s radioactive persona. A recent Wall Street Journal poll has Trump tied 45-45 in a hypothetical matchup with Biden, a weak showing given that Biden\u2019s political fortunes are not exactly at a high ebb.<\/p>\n<p>It\u2019s certainly true that Trump could beat Biden or some other Democratic nominee, but he\u2019d be a risky pick compared with a Republican who could make a new impression on the electorate and wouldn\u2019t be wedded, the way Trump is, to running his 2016 and 2020 campaigns yet again.<\/p>\n<p>On the substance, meanwhile, Trump\u2019s claims to distinctiveness, especially on the border and trade with China, have been eroded by his success in changing the party.<\/p>\n<p>If you\u2019re a Republican drawn to Trump\u2019s populism and want a high-octane version of it, well, there\u2019s Josh Hawley.<\/p>\n<p>If you like the idea of a Trump-friendly Republican with governing experience in a major state, there\u2019s Ron DeSantis.<\/p>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/lowry-trump-452.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis\" class=\"wp-image-21652535\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/lowry-trump-452.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/lowry-trump-452.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/lowry-trump-452.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Florida Gov. Ron DeSantis speaks at the Conservative Political Action Conference ,Feb. 24, 2022.<\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP \/ John Raoux<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<figure class=\"wp-block-image size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" width=\"1024\" height=\"682\" src=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/lowry-trump-450.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1024\" alt=\"Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, questions\" class=\"wp-image-21652533\" srcset=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/lowry-trump-450.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=1535 1536w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/lowry-trump-450.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all 1024w, https:\/\/nypost.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/2\/2022\/03\/lowry-trump-450.jpg?quality=90&amp;strip=all&amp;w=512 512w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 1024px) 100vw, 1024px\"\/><figcaption>Texas Republican Sen. Ted Cruz has a leadership style similar to Trump. <\/figcaption><figcaption><span class=\"credit\">AP \/ Jabin Botsfor<\/span><\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<p>If you are drawn to Trump\u2019s combativeness and disdain for the establishment, there\u2019s Ted Cruz or any number of other options.<\/p>\n<p>To move on from Trump, the party doesn\u2019t have to become \u201cNever Trumpers\u201d opposed to everything related to him. It would suffice to become \u201cNo, thank you, Trumpers\u201d \u2014 in other words, <a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/download-scripts-themes-apps\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"9\" title=\"Download Scripts &amp; Themes &amp; Apps\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">app<\/a>reciative of his policy accomplishments in office and still fond of him but ready to move on.<\/p>\n<p>Otherwise, it\u2019s going to be Mo Brooks-like fiascos for the duration.<\/p>\n<p><em><a href=\"https:\/\/buradabiliyorum.com\/en\/category\/social-mediaa\/\" data-internallinksmanager029f6b8e52c=\"1\" title=\"Social Media\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Twitter<\/a>: <a rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/RichLowry?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor\">@RichLowry<\/a><\/em>\n                        <\/div>\n<p><script async src=\"\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<blockquote><p><strong><span style=\"color: #ff6600;\">If you liked the article, do not forget to share it with your friends. 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