Are Republicans starting to figure out that Trump’s popularity has cratered? A good sign: The shouting match between Trump and lame-duck Sen. Bill Cassidy over the botched attack on Iran. A bad sign: The rest of the caucus made Cassidy shut up.
Naturally, all Republicans are scared shitless of a substantial subset of their own voters, the drooling slackjaws who collect guns and make anonymous death threats, but I think they overestimate how loyal most Republicans are to Trump. They should watch the video from Trump’s speech last night at his pathetic Great American State Fair. It shows people leaving in droves as their putative hero drones on about cutting drug prices by 600%. Maybe they realize that once the bloom is off the rose you’re left with thorns.
Neil Finn wrote “I Walk Away” about a romantic relationship, but the first verse could apply just as well to MAGAts who wake up from their fever dream:
You came
Out of this world to me
My life
Parted like the red sea
We flowed
Easy between the rocks and stones
Never seemed to stop us
The years
Ended in confusion
Don’t ask me I don’t know what happened
Finn wrote the song for “See Ya Round,” the final album by Split Enz, the band he and brother Tim formed in their native New Zealand (hence the “nz” in their name). The group was wildly successful there and in Australia – the single was a hit in both countries – but broke up in 1984 after persistent failure to crack the American market.
That LP was never released in the US, so most Americans first heard the song on the eponymous debut album from Crowded House, the band Finn and Split Enz drummer Paul Hester formed with Nick Seymour on bass. They re-recorded the tune with some lyrical changes, buty didn’t release it as a single.
