We cats have detected a shift in tone among the never-Trumper former Republican commentators like Jennifer Rubin, Max Boot, Ana Navarro and Rick Wilson. Where they were previously exasperated by the Republican Party's willingness to hop aboard the Benedict Donald Express for its own cynical ends, the Rubins, Boots, Navarros and Wilsons of the world have noticed that Republicans are now turning a blind eye not just to impeachable offenses but to mental decline.
And it's reaching new crescendos with Toilet Gate. (Sorry, we're fresh out of creative names for this one.)
It's long been apparent that Trump doesn't understand climate change — he constantly speaks of it in terms of clean air, clean water. We long assumed that it was A). his natural resistance to learning, B). laziness, and/or C). an attempt to deflect the argument. But after yesterday's bizarre comments about toilet flushing, it's clear: He not only is clueless about environmental issues. He's in the throes of full-blown dementia.
One wonders what the small business owners at the table with him were thinking as he went on and on about the inability to wash one's hands with low water pressure, or to adequately flush with high-efficiency johns. To be sure, his general toilet experience is a gold-plated one, and we have no idea whether such pissoirs are environmentally friendly or not. But this latest rambling was off the charts.
The question remains whether Trump will actually be at the top of the Republican ticket next year. Impeachment is looming, more evidence is being uncovered, and at some point the GOP may decide that the tipping point is close enough that they'll have to give him the heave-ho. We're not kidding ourselves that this is a given, but let's put it this way: It's possible. For now, however, Republicans seem to be content with having a nutcase in charge of the nuclear football. We cats HISS.
(UPDATE: Benedict Donald, in his own words today: "Right now in a number of states the laws allow a baby to be born from his or her mother's womb in the ninth month. It is wrong. It has to change." We rest our case.)
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