A bridge too far for GOP experts?

On Tuesday, Trump offhandedly suggested ethnically cleansing Gaza. His staff is walking it back, as such a policy could never have survived vetting.

There are more than a few ex-GOP or conservative wonks who could have made Trump look good by giving the Administration ideas to get passed, not because we support him but because the ideas have merit. Things like passing a VAT rather than a tariff, distributing child tax credit (refundable) through pay rather than the IRS or replacing the capital gains tax with an asset value tax (one high enough to reduce the deficit or even pay down the debt).

Is suggesting fascism in the world stage bad enough to let those ideas lie fallow until someone else is President? I suspect so. Ethnically cleansing is always fascism, even when we did it to Native Americans - especially the way we did it and benefit from it. Fascism always has its beneficiaries. It is usually justified by giving a benefit to one's own poor - often landless settlers. It is benevolent if you don't see the victims. Not seeing victims is fascism. Saying the victims would be better off is also fascism. Just look at the writing above the gates of Auschwitz.

The best thing that Trump could do to cement any kind of value in history would be to quit. No other action he can do is worthy, nor will it stop most GOP analysts from accepting the taint of this fascist.