Republicans vs Trump

Yesterday on Fox New Sunday Karl Rove explained that Trump was "making a political statement" by pardoning vicious racist Joe Arpaio and that it's "a bad mistake." Not a bad mistake for the already tragic, written-in-stone Trumpanzee legacy, a bad mistake for the Republican Party.

There was a flurry of reports that Republicans would stand up to Trump, rein him in, keep him under control, direct and guide him, etc. German conservatives-- from the industrialists and media moguls to politicians like Franz von Papen-- were supposed to do the same thing with Hitler once he became chancellor.