Poisonous plants and flowers can be very deceiving. Some appear beautiful, beguiling one’s faculties so that they invade the senses. And the one touching them or smelling them becomes enchanted and doesn’t notice it’s deadliness.

This is what happened to the GOP. When Donald Trump was first elected, they were swept away, so very happy that: “victory” was their own. They had not expected to win the 2016 election. No, they had become resigned to losing.

So they celebrated when they won, unaware that the level of toxicity from the poison was ever-rising. And their lives would never be the same again. Since the “Trump years,” the GOP has been losing. Over and over, every election cycle, they lose. Perhaps the poisonous plant cursed them.

All their haughtiness has long faded, replaced by a somewhat dour resignation as they just try to get through each election cycle and WIN — win SOMETHING. Anything. And perhaps equally as bad as adjusting to their new status as losers, being unable to win elections is the GOP’s new title: dimwitted.

This is what the Wall Street Journal chose to call them in a ferocious opinion piece. The WSJ editors let Republicans have it. They also speak of the absurdity of what’s going on in the fight to block Kevin McCarthy from becoming House Speaker. And then the went on to compliment Nancy Pelosi.

How that must sting for the GOP! The republican nemesis, complimented by the Wall Street Journal, who all but calls THEIR party a bunch of fools: “A narrow GOP majority of only 222-213 requires a leader who can enforce party discipline.” The Wall Street Journal says.

“That’s how Nancy Pelosi has been able to govern with the mirror-image majority in the last two years.”

“Too many House Republicans are too dimwitted to understand the uses of power and how to wield it.”

Wow. Every action causes a reaction, and there is no doubt the GOP has been good at reacting lately. The rot from the poison within GOP circles has infected them so badly that even when they win — as they did the House — they are doomed to screw it all up.

And they’re doomed to be labeled things like dimwitted. How cruel and undignified for them all. This never happened before Donald Trump. What the GOP thought would help them, what they were over the moon about, only came back to bite, and the bite was pretty lethal.

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