First up, a video of me drawing these cartoons, backed by Republicans acting more cartoonish than the cartoons.
It’s been an action-packed week for Republicans . . . and it’s only half over as I write this.
I guess you keep pretty busy if you have a political party that is led by a criminal not-so-mastermind and made up of extremist sycophants.
The week opened with the first day of the Trump Organization trial in New York, then devolved into a right-wing revolt on the floor of the House.
It’s pretty fitting and not that hard to draw a bright line connecting the two events.
Join me for a quick recap…
Before the trial even got started, Justice Arthur Engoron ordered the cancellation of Trump business certificates in New York — which means the full-time defendant and presidential candidate may have to unload Trump Tower, among other properties.
Too much fraud and dreaming up what you’d like your property values to be apparently doesn’t go over as well as Trump and his lawyers think it should.
But the angry, Glaring Man in the Courtroom was ready with his defense.
For some reason, he still thinks it’s a good idea to loudly pillory the prosecutor and judge while the cameras are rolling.
Which finally led a judge to issue a gag order in a (probably fruitless) effort to tamp down the level of Trump rage and hatred.
While the leader of the Republican Party was seething in a Manhattan courtroom, Speaker of the House Kevin McCarthy was fending off a “motion to vacate” brought by evil plasticine villain, Rep. Matt Gaetz.
As you probably know, it didn’t go so well for McCarthy.
I couldn’t resist depicting the further devolution of the old Republican elephant logo into some horrific mashup of a kind of Trumpian-monster-meets-QAnon-shaman.
Because after all, that is just what the party has become.
Everybody is focusing on those darn upstart 8 Republican House members who gave the speaker the boot, but McCarthy used the extreme-MAGA wing to become speaker in the first place.
What happened to McCarthy is what has happened to the entire Republican Party that has gone fully Trump.
It didn’t end well for “My Kevin” and it won’t end well for the party.
In the words of the late, great Molly Ivins, “you got to dance with them what brung you.”
