We often invoke the saying about the past as prologue during my radio appearances on the Global Black Experience with Imhotep Gary Byrd on New York’s WBAI.
Because October 7 is such an unforgettable date in Jewish history with the assault by Hamas two years ago, I looked for op-ed or government pieces I published back then. On October 10, 2019, during Trump’s first four years in the White House, I wrote that Trump was under fire from his GOP colleagues, mainly from Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, who strongly objected to Trump’s decision to withdraw troops from northern Syria.
That caused quite a lot of rancor in the Republican corridors because McConnell was among the key backers of Trump’s policies.
On Tuesday of this week, I noticed a semblance of the past/prologue dichotomy when Sen. Chuck Grassley assailed Trump’s Attorney General Pam Bondi, grilling her about her tenure in running the Department of Justice. Then, from out of right field, so to speak, GOP Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene bashed her own party for its lack of a plan to address the healthcare costs for Americans. This is evidence that a fissure is developing in the Republican juggernaut.
An additional opportunity exists, too, with a Trump-appointed judge putting the brakes on troop deployment to Portland, Oregon. These are good signs for Democrats and critical omens for the GOP cadre.
What remains to be seen is the extent to which the Dems will aggressively seize on these openings. We wait to see and hear from the DNC and its cohort, but as the legendary songwriter Bill Withers once sang: “Good things might come to those who wait, not to those who wait too late.”