Members of Trump’s Wildling Crew Turn Their Wrath on Paul Ryan

When the natives are this restless, it doesn’t make them look like they’re winning. It makes them look like they’re in a panic.

At issue is South Carolina Representative Trey Gowdy’s statement regarding the FBI informant, Stefan A. Halper.

After viewing the sensitive documents with a group of other lawmakers a week ago, Gowdy committed the unforgivable crime of saying the FBI did the exact right thing by having an informant contact three members of Trump’s campaign. It was not “spying,” an espionage word, and that’s not what Halper was doing.

Gowdy further pointed out that President Trump should be pleased that the documents pointed away from him.

For some reason, Gowdy’s sunny report freaked out the Trump loyalists, and the attacks began.

Then it got worse.

House Speaker Paul Ryan had the temerity to defend Gowdy.

From a piece I covered on Wednesday, Ryan said:

“I think Chairman Gowdy’s initial assessment is accurate,” Ryan said, adding that “we have some more digging to do,” and more interviews to conduct.

Pretty vanilla, actually, but at least somebody stepped in to draw some of the heat from Gowdy.

And draw it, he did.

An example of the crazy that was unleashed in the Trumpian wing of the Republican party came from the Fox Business Network and Lou Dobbs, the frothing MAGA madman, who participates in nightly bloodlettings to honor his liege.

Dobbs was joined by Florida Representative Matt Gaetz, a Trump loyalist who is only rivaled in his slithering, full-throated devotion to the president by Devin Nunes.

Together, the two turned their vulture-like ire on Ryan.

“There is no defense today for Paul Ryan siding with the FBI and Department of Justice over against those of us in the Congress who are working for transparency and accountability,” Gaetz said.

Gaetz continued that Ryan’s defenses of the FBI are “deeply frustrating,” referring to the agency as “the Deep State.”

“He is a defender of K Street and Wall Street and the Koch brothers,” Dobbs replied. “The man has sold out, he’s been obviously sold out for years.”

It’s insanity. Anytime I hear somebody launch into talk about the “Deep State” boogeymen, my first impression is that I’m not dealing with the best and brightest available. It also shuts down any efforts for substantive discussion.

But people like Dobbs and Gaetz don’t care about substance.

“Why in the world would your conference not say that’s enough?” Dobbs asked. “Mr. Lame Duck Speaker: Get the hell out of the office, you’re going to send us to perdition and destruction in the midterm elections.”

No, it won’t be Paul Ryan that does it. It won’t even be Trey Gowdy.

It will be the ugly, bullying behavior of the Trump faithful.

It’s like they don’t see what’s happening, in their zeal to please the king.

“This man doesn’t have a plan. He doesn’t have a strategy. He doesn’t raise money that any other speaker couldn’t raise. He certainly is not a strategic thinker. He is anti-Trump, he has been so throughout. He is a disaster, and the disaster is going to consume your party, do you not agree, if he is locked in that speakership?”

Gaetz replied that for the first time, he’s hearing more conservative members of the GOP Congress ponder booting Ryan from the speakership.

Wait… Didn’t Ryan announce he’s retiring after this year?

He did. Gaetz isn’t just a gutless troll for Trump. He’s also a liar.

The “Us vs. Them” war that was started within the Republican party by the members of Trump’s Temple is what has pushed the party to the brink, and anything that happens now is all on the shoulders of the acolytes.

They were warned.