It's time for Trump to read the runes

The clearest sign that Donald Trump is on the way out is the singularly spectacular dumping of him by the senior hierarchy of the Republican Party. They want nothing to do with his accusations of wholesale fraud and stop-the-vote demands. Those Republican politicians who have been reelected to the Senate are already thinking ahead to a Joe Biden administration and how they can deal with him and his more socialist-leaning colleagues, such as Bernie Sanders. The reaction to Trump's outraged statements about election fraud has been deafening by its silence. Republican senators may have all kinds of different views about all kinds of different things but the one thing they all agree on is the Founding Fathers' constitution and the way democracy works in the United States of America. Running around accusing the opposition of stealing the election without any evidence doesn't fit in with their view of how a president should conduct himself, Republican or Democrat. Indeed, it's thanks to the constitution and the election system that they are continuing to be senators. They were reelected, Mr President, thanks to good old-fashioned democracy at work. So Trump is getting no encouragement from the hugely satisfied reelected Republican senators, thank you very much. The only comment some of them have made is to support the view that all votes should be legal which is defnitely not the same as saying Biden is winning because all of his votes are illegal. Others, such as Senator Marco Rubio, a potential Republican president of the future, has expressed concern at the way Trump has resorted to accusing and abusing the Democrats. So, Mr President for another 74 days only, it's time to read the runes. Not only are you losing the presidential election (or reelection in his case), you are being abandoned by the grandees of your own party. Another sign of Trump's growing anger and frustration at the way he thinks he is being treated is that he got his two sons to make public complaints about the scandalous silence of his fellow Republicans. A family affair, all the less impressive for that. By the time the weekend is over it looks like Biden will have won Arizona, Georgia and Pennsylvania or as near as dammit. Then, Mr President for-not-much-longer-but-too-long-even-so, it will be your great opportunity to drop all this legal nonsense, accept the inevitable and be maganinmous in defeat. Will it happen? NO.