Republican lemmings would rather march off a cliff than distance themselves from their corrupt, incompetent and apparently senile Dear Leader.

On Saturday, Axios reported, “Most Republicans are too scared to bluntly tell Trump how unpopular he is.” So, even though his midterm campaign plan heavily involves promoting himself, Republicans are going along with it. “We have no choice. We're stuck on the boat with him whether we like it or not," a “top Republican campaign official” told Axios.

The justification for this, Axios says, is because “Republicans need Trump’s low-propensity voters to turn out.”

That assumes those low-propensity voters are still on the Trump train. In December, 2025, before Trump’s Iran war sent gas prices soaring, Vox reported that Trump was already losing support among those low-propensity voters.

Nevertheless, Trump is planning a Republican midterm convention this week, in Dallas. He plans to speak both nights and, I’m sure, will deliver a winning message – not. “His speeches tend to lack cogency and focus, and their effectiveness is questionable,” Axios said. Ya think?

Republicans know so. They’re voting against the Trumpapalooza with their feet. At least 45 GOP candidates and members have already snubbed the event and dozens more were still “up in the air,” Andrea Thompson reported a few days ago.

They’re also voting with their pocketbooks. President Billionaire Grifter is charging $25,000 a head for his self-love fest, Thompson noted.

On top of all that, the first two NFL games of the season occur the nights of the convention. “You can pretty much guarantee that no one will be choosing a bloated Trump speech over a football game,” she predicted.

Meanwhile, Trumpapalooza just hit another speed bump. Google's highest-ranked result for searches for the Republican convention leads to the DOJ library of the Epstein Files.

Still, you can bet many, and probably most Republicans will bend the knee to their (presumably) favorite sexual predator's plans to campaign in their districts. “Say no to Trump, and he could punish you,” a consultant told Axios. “Say yes to him, and his presence might not help. This is the world we’re in.”

It’s a world of their own making.