The Washington Post - Lara Trump, the future of the GOP?

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[Background: The North Carolina GOP has censured Sen. Richard Burr, who voted to convict Trump, and the party chair is now suggesting that Burr betrayed the “North Carolina Republicans” who sent him to the Senate.]

It is fitting that Sen. Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.), one of Trump’s most devoted lickspittles, most clearly explained what the GOP rage at Burr really means. 

 

Graham insisted that the retiring Burr’s vote could alone make the North Carolina-raised Lara Trump the GOP nominee for Senate in 2022 if she runs.

 

“I think she represents the future of the Republican Party," Graham said.

 

Why would Burr’s vote to convict Trump instantly transform his daughter-in-law into a leading contender for Senate and a representative of the GOP’s future?

 

Graham’s underlying meaning is obvious: For untold numbers of GOP primary voters, Trump has been the victim of a series of monstrous injustices:

 

First, the election was stolen from him. 

 

Then he was impeached for inciting violence to overturn it, even though he played zero role in inciting the violence, and even though he had been cheated in the whole saga.

 

The future of the GOP, Graham is telling us, belongs to those who will avenge those hideous injustices.

 

A Trump taking the seat of an apostate like Burr will accomplish this ...