Can the Republican Party recover?

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TNVOLNAVY said:
The GOP will never recover as long as they continue to compromise and move the country toward the leftist commie cliff. They had the 1st 2 years under Trump to bury the leftists and failed to do so because they are weak and spineless.
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This unhinged rhetoric is why the Rs are losing ground.
 
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rjd970 said:
Thanks for posting. We don’t seem to agree on much but you are 100% correct here.

A truly fiscal conservative that leaves my decisions alone as long as I’m not hurting anybody else will get my vote every single time. Right now libertarian is the closest thing to that. After putting Trump in office there isn’t much of a leg to stand on with family values anymore.

It’s all about the economy. Cut spending and decrease the debt, leave people alone, and I really feel like they could run away with every single election.
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Balanced budget too
 
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k-town_king said:
Maybe not but one is gaining support and one is losing support.

The Dems shouldn't find common ground anyway. The R policies are terrible.
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Are they?
I saw a massive move to the right in this election. The house was a bloodbath for the Dems.
You also have a Democrat making regular statements about how he’s not voting for the things Biden wants even if they win both in Ga.

To me this is all good stuff.
Maybe our elected officials will have to work WITH each other for a change
 
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Chris4Vols22 said:
Give me an R who actually is fiscally conservative and not batsh!t crazy on social issues, and I actually would vote R. Until then, I'm most likely continuing voting libertarian.
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Republicans are fiscally conservative only when a Democrat is in the White House. When a Republican is President, the GOP spends like crazy rewarding their supporters and raking money back from the contracts they let. It is called corruption, and if you don't realize that the Republican Party is rotten to the core you have not been paying attention.
 
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There is also in-fighting among moderates and progressive Democrats right now. Both parties could see massive shifts moving forward.

I am fiscally conservative and socially liberal (on some issues). I just want someone with common sense. I don’t care if that person is a man, woman, white, black, Asian, or Hispanic. Just do your job and make America the best it can be.
 
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Orangeslice13 said:
Are they?
I saw a massive move to the right in this election. The house was a bloodbath for the Dems.
You also have a Democrat making regular statements about how he’s not voting for the things Biden wants even if they win both in Ga.

To me this is all good stuff.
Maybe our elected officials will have to work WITH each other for a change
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Gerrymandering
 
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Orangeslice13 said:
Are they?
I saw a massive move to the right in this election. The house was a bloodbath for the Dems.
You also have a Democrat making regular statements about how he’s not voting for the things Biden wants even if they win both in Ga.

To me this is all good stuff.
Maybe our elected officials will have to work WITH each other for a change
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Agreed.
 
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calban said:
Republican - Democrat - It's the two party system that 's broken and until they can see beyond politics and see THE PEOPLE, nothing will fix either one.
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Trump did break the GOP.

And there is more excitement than they've had in a long time. He's finally the one that stood up to the left and pushed back. Of course, the left will continue to lie about the GOP by saying they are racist or sexist or anti-gay or xenophobic or whatever which are nothing but lies. Always accuse others of what you are guilty of.

But make no mistake, Trump started dismantling the old guard and it showed in this last election. Just as the Democrats have slid left, the GOP has seen the writing on the wall with more people like AOC and the squad getting elected. It's to that point where they know there is a real danger to what they believe in.

The next steps with the GOP needs to disassociate itself with people like Bill Kristol and the rest of the Never Trump crowd. Let's face facts here, if you voted for Hillary in 2016 because your chosen candidate didn't get on the ballot, we don't need you in the party. Let the left celebrate such people and move past them. Next step is to tell people like Mitt Romney to get the eff on board or get the eff out.

Trump did a lot of good things for the party. But the most was instilling the energy they need for the midterms. That's as long as the remaining idiots in charge don't try to revert back to where they were.
 
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k-town_king said:
More Dems in the US. Most under 45 are Dems or liberal.

Gerrymandering is the sole reason that the House isn't 70% Dem.
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calban said:
Republican - Democrat - It's the two party system that 's broken and until they can see beyond politics and see THE PEOPLE, nothing will fix either one.
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Two heads on the same body.
Term limits might be the answer.
Politicians are first and foremost only interested in re-election.
Everything else is a secondary distraction.
Fear of not getting Party money for re-election campaigns assures that very few cross the aisle on any issue.
 
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Roustabout said:
Although conservative, I haven’t voted Republican in a presidential election in over 12 years. I’ve been dissatisfied with the direction of the party and based on this last election, I could see things going down pretty fast. Looking back, the idea that a guy like Trump could even be seriously considered, much less win, was beyond reason for me.

While I believed Trump would shake up the party, I didn’t know if it would for better or worse. Four years later and the swamp isn’t drained. Trump galvanized a particular base, and quite frankly, those people scare me as much as the most radical liberal. After his tenure, I see a country more divided, more misinformed, and more hostile towards one another. Trump was polarizing and brought out the worst on both sides.

I would love to see the Republican Party redefine itself and evaluate its platform.

What are the main areas and issues that you see needing a rethink for the GOP to avoid its demise?
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Trump was the best thing to happen to the R party since Reagan. He showed the Rs they need to fight and stop being cowards. The RINOs never got 73 million plus votes
 
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GOP has to disavow Trump. While he has his base in the short term, that base is not nearly as much pro Trump as it is simply anti Democrat. The base will still vote GOP in the short term.

But long term you have to be about more than simply "not the other guy." And right now the GOP has no real long term identity. They are not FOR anything. Every so called principle they have claimed to have they have readily abandoned at the first sign of trouble.
 
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