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Given that President Donald Trump antagonized a pair of Republican senators, Thom Tillis of North Carolina and John Cornyn of Texas, many political observers expected the now-lame duck lawmakers to occasionally stand up to the president. Indeed, when they said they would vote not to confirm acting attorney general Todd Blanche unless he guaranteed Trump\u2019s $1.776 billion slush fund to supporters would not occur, it seemed as if they were doing precisely that.<\/p>\n

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Now that it has been reported they will vote to support Blanche after he gave them a non-binding statement to not move forward with the fund, political observers are baffled \u2014 although one conservative commentator has a scathing theory.<\/p>\n

\u201cUnderstanding why politicians do what they do is easy,\u201d wrote The Dispatch’s Nick Catoggio on Monday. \u201cUsually.\u201d Yet as he pointed out, it is far from easy to explain Tillis\u2019 and Cornyn\u2019s decision.<\/p>\n

\u201cThree of the usual four motives that drive politicians plainly don\u2019t apply to Cornyn and Tillis,\u201d Catoggio wrote. \u201cThey\u2019re at no risk of losing a primary. They owe nothing to their partisan tribe, which chased them out of politics at Trump\u2019s behest. And they no longer need to prioritize keeping the Republican donor class happy.\u201d<\/p>\n

He also said that, while it initially appeared Cornyn and Tillis were opposing Blanche\u2019s confirmation out of principle, their capitulation disproved that theory. After all, Blanch merely signed a deal saying that he would not implement the slush fund, but that original deal stipulated that all parties involved \u2014 including the IRS, Trump and his sons \u2014 need to sign off to modify it, and Blanche is currently the sole signatory. Catoggio also pointed out that the deal still allows Trump and his family to commit tax crimes without fear of consequences.<\/p>\n

\u201cGiven the near certainty that Blanche will resurrect the fund in some form after he\u2019s confirmed and the absolute certainty that he\u2019ll embarrass the Senate with other corrupt and vindictive abuses of power, agreeing to confirm him amounts to the two senators essentially volunteering to be seen as rubes in hindsight,\u201d Catoggio opined.<\/p>\n

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He speculated that the two men are still partisan Republicans, but felt enough discomfort at Blanche\u2019s nomination and anger at Trump turning on them that they felt the need to put on a show of opposing Blanche.<\/p>\n

\u201cMy best attempt to explain Cornyn and Tillis is that they always intended to support this nomination for knee-jerk partisan tribal reasons but felt obliged by their lame-duck status to make some token show of resistance to it,\u201d Catoggio wrote. \u201cThey\u2019re old-guard institutionalist Republicans (which is why they\u2019re out of a job) and so they probably found the idea of the Senate rubber-stamping a figure as grossly unfit as Blanche unseemly. Their colleagues had little choice but to meekly acquiesce\u2014they still answer to Trump and his morally bankrupt voters, after all\u2014but the retirees in the chamber no longer do.\u201d<\/p>\n

He added, \u201cSo the two found a middle way that happens to reflect the traditional conservative establishment\u2019s general approach to Trumpism dating back to 2016. They made noises about their own authority and holding Trump accountable, and then they rolled over and gave him everything he wanted anyway. That\u2019s what being an \u201cinstitutionalist\u201d means in a party eroded by fascist sensibilities: Occasionally one must insist on a simulacrum of separation of powers, as a nod to the Founding vision, before completely capitulating.\u201d<\/p>\n

Concluding that \u201cit amounts to a hoax,\u201d Catoggio declared that \u201cwhen the history of this period is written, let\u2019s hope the authors have the sense to understand that it wasn\u2019t the Trumps and Blanches who made it possible, it was the Cornyns and Tillises.\u201d<\/p>\n

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