This is How Trump Destroys the Republican Party

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1972 Grad said:
By any chance , have you ranked Biden and Camel Toe yet?
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Doesn’t make sense to rank president-elects. Also, I’m not aware of any rankings for posters moms, but I’m guessing we could create one and work yours in there somewhere.
 
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They knew Trump was a narcissistic jerk, who would viciously attack anyone who dared differ with him, and they let him take over the party because they were greedy and saw an opportunity to pick up support from his base of resentment-laden cult members.

They have only themselves to blame for being in this pickle.
 
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lawgator1 said:
They knew Trump was a narcissistic jerk, who would viciously attack anyone who dared differ with him, and they let him take over the party because they were greedy and saw an opportunity to pick up support from his base of resentment-laden cult members.

They have only themselves to blame for being in this pickle.
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Actually, unlike your party of big Dem party bosses and Wall Street puppet masters, the Repubs let their voters choose which candidate they wanted.
 
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MontyPython said:
'It's like nothing I've ever seen'

"...For McConnell and Thune, the matter of simply stating the obvious -- that Joe Biden is the President-elect in McConnell's case, that a floor effort to overturn the results would fail catastrophically in Thune's -- served as the ultimate betrayal to Trump.

Trump's assistant stunned GOP senators when an unsolicited e-mail showed up with a PowerPoint slide that showed McConnell's polling in his 2020 Senate contest. Trump appeared to believe it showed his endorsement of McConnell, and a subsequent robocall on his behalf, was crucial to McConnell's victory.

McConnell won his race by nearly 20 points.

In Thune's case, the President wasted little time taking his 280-character blowtorch to a popular member of the Republican conference considered a top candidate to take over as GOP leader when McConnell departs.

"Republicans in the Senate so quickly forget. Right now they would be down 8 seats without my backing them in the last Election. RINO John Thune, "Mitch's boy", should just let it play out. South Dakota doesn't like weakness. He will be primaried in 2022, political career over!!!"

Trump's browbeating of his fellow Republicans in Congress follows a familiar pattern that's occurred throughout his presidential term, where at various point a GOP Senator or House member would raise concerns, only to face Trump's social media wrath.

What followed, according to several lawmakers who experienced it, was an explosion back in their home states or districts. Offices were barraged with furious callers and primary challenges were explored by local up-and-comers who pledged unyielding fealty to Trump.

"It's like nothing I've ever seen," a GOP senator told CNN. "You get singed by it once and realize OK, there's no real upside to going in that direction again."

It's a reality that has infuriated Democrats, many of whom regularly talk of hearing privately from their GOP colleagues how unseemly they find Trump's behavior. "But always privately. Always," a Democratic senator told CNN. "What an embarrassment."

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Trump forces his loyal minions to follow him blindly off the cliff, and the GOP follows.

Politics at its worse.

Will it ultimately end in the dissolution of the party? Will the GOP be anything other than the minority party of disaffected conspiracy theorists that it's become? Its platform appeals to anti-immigrant, 2A gun-toting, old white people. Not exactly the future of America.

Trump is a RINO. This is fact. Anyone who knew his politics prior to running for President will freely admit this.

In 2016, he absconded and corrupted the Republican party. Why? Because the Republican party let him. The GOP prioritized winning back the White House over principles in selecting him in 2016.

... and now this Frankenstein monster returns to smite its creator and 'master'.

Merry Christmas, GOP, and RIP!

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Is it supposed to be a bad thing if he destroyed it?
 
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Vol Main said:
Hopefully the right wing, lunatic outlook prevalent on this board is not representative of the national average, but we are seeing indications that it is, that the Republican's Trump base hates Republican moderates with a mindless vigor similar to their hate for all Democrats. Trump threatens any Republican who does not obey his every whim with being primaried, with their political careers being ended. He is quite open about it, and he receives a good response from his base, to his demands for total personal loyalty. Republicans cannot win without that base. Can Republicans win without moderate Republicans? Where will moderate Republicans land if they have no future in their own Party?
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That’s the issue...... it’s only about winning..... it is never about policies that are good for America.....
 
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1972 Grad said:
Is there anybody else here who would like to see Adam Schiff taken into custody by the FBI for their Christmas present? Deck the halls with that bug eyed bast*rd!
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Schiff is an honorable man. On the other hand, I would like to see you taken into custody. Stay away from me. I already told you I do not want any heroin.
 
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lawgator1 said:
They knew Trump was a narcissistic jerk, who would viciously attack anyone who dared differ with him, and they let him take over the party because they were greedy and saw an opportunity to pick up support from his base of resentment-laden cult members.

They have only themselves to blame for being in this pickle.
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Established Republicans opposed Trump until he won the nomination. When he won the general election for President, almost all of them got on board his train. They know he is an incompetent charlatan, but he is the ruthless leader of their party and President of the United States. He demands personal loyalty and throws his dominating influence against anyone who refuses to support those demands. How long can his personal influence last? Nobody can say for sure, but the Republican Party is now largely dominated by it.
 
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lostsheep said:
Doesn’t make sense to rank president-elects. Also, I’m not aware of any rankings for posters moms, but I’m guessing we could create one and work yours in there somewhere.
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This post 👆🏼proves it..... you’re a sheltered, below average 12 year old.
 
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Vol Main said:
Established Republicans opposed Trump until he won the nomination. When he won the general election for President, almost all of them got on board his train. They know he is an incompetent charlatan, but he is the ruthless leader of their party and President of the United States. He demands personal loyalty and throws his dominating influence against anyone who refuses to support those demands. How long can his personal influence last? Nobody can say for sure, but the Republican Party is now largely dominated by it.
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None of those vanilla politicians in the Republican party will get anywhere near the loyalty from the average American that Trump got. Nowhere close. 2024 will be all the same stooges as 2016. Jeb.. Marco... all the same cast of clowns
 
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We need five or six viable political parties instead of just two. The fringe radicals on both the right and left are pulling too hard on their parties and disenfranchising the moderates.

Get rid of the Tea Party, Populists, and Moral Majority, and I'd still be a card carrying GOP member instead of independent. Let those three form their own party and figure things out.

Same with the left. Moderate liberals and progressive liberals have a huge cleft between them and little desire to work together. And where the right uses its fringe as heavies to move the Overton Window, the left tries to shackle and downplay their fringe and minimize their impact.

With a multiple party spread, things start to look very different and more people have options they can stomach instead of the pile of **** on a blue plate vs a pile of **** on a red plate.

Progressive, DNC, Libertarian, GOP, Whig/Constitution
 
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