Ari just said a profound thing...all the Rs dropping out is NOT good...it gives Trump the party.

[jodymarie aimee]

Ari just said a profound thing...all the Rs dropping out is NOT good...it gives Trump the party. I know we rejoice when they decide to not be in politics...like our vile Paul Ryan today....there is more room for us...but look at it this way....Trump wins.

[Eliot Rosewater]

1. Well, they wouldnt stand up to him anyhow so not much difference.

Likely those who will replace these leaving will be trumpers, unless we vote for ANY democrat.

[writes3000]

2. Totally agree.

[Ferrets are Cool]

3. How is this "him" winning when they vote with him lockstep? nt

[BumRushDaShow]

4. I cracked up at him scolding Torricelli for trying to be diplomatic

[dameatball]

5. Maybe so, but it is a smaller party. If the GOP so called mainstream leaves......

....instead of kowtowing to the Tea Party/Trumpers, that is a good thing. I was more concerned that they would embrace that 30% to stay in power.

[Salviati]

9. The hope that the GOP can be saved as a rational party is long gone.

If it can be salvaged, it will only be at the end of a long time in the wilderness after hitting rock bottom. The only hope we have left is that their fall doesn't drag the country down with them further than they already have. The only way we can realize that goal is to wrench the levers of power away from them by voting straight Democratic ticket in every election for the foreseeable future, from President down to dogcatcher.

[blake2012]

6. That is a stupid assessment

[riversedge]

7. Trump already has the Party. No Repug speaks out about his behavior or policies or if

they do, it is mild. He owns them.

[Egnever]

10. Absolutely

This is the party they have been building for quite some time.

The tea party was the largest shift but Trump is just an extension of that. The republican party has been dead for at least a decade now.
They have been surviving on nothing but hate for as least as long.

[LSFL]

8. Trump cannot hold the party together.

And he is unable to surround himself with people who can.

[gratuitous]

15. Yep

Trump will rule the rump party.

[oberliner]

11. Who would it be better to give the party to?

[Cosmocat]

12. He's correct

nm

[Fullduplexxx]

13. If they stood up to him they would be replaced

[Arkansas Granny]

14. Trump already has the Republican party and they gave it to him.

Frontline last night was "Trump's Takeover".
https://www.pbs.org/wgbh/frontline/watch/

It's well worth the watch.

[mulsh]

16. Ari, much as I like him, is wrong. The party has been Trump since Reagan days. Trump is merely the

most obvious iteration of their pigheaded, racist, xenophobic and greedy little souls.

[Codeine]

17. Good. The stupid fucker can take it down with him. nt