Dispatch warns Trump and GOP ‘bring our country to the brink of something terrible and unspeakable’

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DispatchA conservative publication founded by former Fox News contributors Jonah Goldberg and Stephen HayesPublished a rare, defamatory editorial raking the president Donald Trump And his “enablers” in the GOP over the coals on Wednesday.

Under the heading “Cost of Silence”. DispatchThe editors of described the desperate state of affairs, pointing to the death of Renee good and Alex PrettyThe build-up to the crisis in Greenland, Canada’s cozying up to China, ongoing economic uncertainty, and a criminal investigation into the Federal Reserve chairman Jerome Powell As an example of chaos invited by the Trump administration.

“One of the recurring ironies of world political history is that autocrats rarely bring elected—or installed—order, even the slave kind that can be enforced through state terror. No, more reliably, autocrats bring disorder,” they argued. “The disorder Americans are experiencing now, the effects of which are only beginning to be felt, is essentially what happens when an American president ignores the rule of law, insisting that he is limited only by his own sense of morality – a sense of morality that does not exist in this case.

The piece continued:

We are aware of that Dispatch Readers have read and heard us repeat these points thousands of times in articles and podcasts, and we are equally aware that a Dispatch Editorial, while rare, “J’Acuse!” Not going to happen. Which forces the powers that be to rethink where they are and what got them there. But we’ll repeat ourselves: Donald Trump is uniquely unfit for the presidency, a man who has no sense of integrity or administrative efficiency, and who is lazy, vain, ignorant, and vulnerable to flattery—all of which make him easy to manipulate for figures. Stephen Millerwhose racist obsessions and sophomoric Nietzschean posturing have dominated the administration’s agenda for months and who epitomize the kind of advisers the president has surrounded himself with in this second go-round.

“But Trump is far from the only one to blame for the mess we find ourselves in,” presented DispatchTurns his attention briefly to the east President Joe BidenAnd then Congressional Republicans.

“When the history of our time is written, congressional leaders — especially Republican congressional leaders — will be remembered as more important and more culpable than they appear at the moment. To describe their careers as inaction would be too charitable; they have enabled not only the specific crimes of the Trump administration, but the more general acts and prejudices of the overall executive branch — the branch created by Article I of our Constitution to make laws and oversee federal agencies,” it argued. “They are, in a very real sense, in gross violation of their oath of office, and so are the representatives and senators of both parties who have contributed over the years to reduce Congress to its current deplorable state.”

After putting hard-hitting questions to the Senate Majority Leader John Thune (R-SD) – “If you can’t deal with all of this – all of this – why would you choose to stay in the Senate?” – The editorial ended thus:

Dante Put his cowards and opportunists—those who refuse to take a stand on life—in the vestibule of his hell: it’s not hell proper, but you can see the rest of the underworld from there. Cowards and opportunists in the United States of America in the year 2026 have also risen to the occasion, and have brought our country to the brink of something terrible and unspeakable. We got here one step at a time – let’s hope we remember the way back.

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