It took Donald Trump to turn Georgia into a Democratic state.
It took Trump to turn suburban voters away from Republicans. It took Trump to energize the leftist coalition against Republicans in a way the Left has never been energized before. It took Trump to discourage Republican-leaning citizens actively from voting, by pushing the idea (in effect) that voting was useless because everything was rigged against them anyway. It took Trump to show that he is the biggest loser, and to drag down with him the party he hijacked in 2015-2016.
It took Trump the grifter to raise money for a fruitless, counterconstitutional challenge to his own election loss, when that money could better have been used by Georgia Republicans David Perdue and Kelly Loeffler. It took Trump to suck up all the oxygen from Perdue and Loeffler. It took Trump to demand such obsequious loyalty from Loeffler that she made herself look like a pathetic panderer with no mind of her own and very little character.
It took Trump for Georgia Republicans to lose, even to a radical preacher and a callow outsider with more in common with Silicon Valley than with Georgia. It took Trump for Republicans to lose the Senate, which is what apparently will happen unless late-counted votes give Perdue a miraculous victory. Indeed, it took Trump even to put the Republican Senate majority at risk in the first place.
Trump is a disgrace. And his disgrace rubbed off onto the Republican Party. As a whole. “The lone and level sands stretch far away.”
