Congratulations, Trump: You Played Yourself

Trump's New Executive Order Is Going To Bite the GOP In The Ass

Trump’s latest and most madcap executive order on mail-in voting isn’t just a policy pivot; it’s a full-frontal assault on the plumbing of American democracy, delivered with the Cromwellian subtlety of a sledgehammer to a stained-glass window. It’s classic Trumpism: find a functioning, if unglamorous, part of the civic infrastructure, set it on fire because arson is your only tool when electoral reality is bearing down.

But it’s also among the dumbest ideas to slither out of the wet-brained claque of Trump’s advisors and lackeys, and that’s a very, very high bar.

This executive order is going to absolutely wreck one of the GOP’s most effective election tools, because even if they lose in court, the MAGA voter now says, “Well… can’t do that mail-in ballot. George Soros has a secret army of gnomes in the mailbox to change my vote and make me trans!”

In the words of the poet and philosopher DJ Kahled: “Congratulations. You played yourself.”