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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsOnce Trump is a lame duck will Republican politicians still support his insanity?
There won't be another election for 2 years and the climate will be a lot different then.
What would the advantage be for a Republican to remain a subservient Trump toadie?
I expect we will hear a lot of Republicans whining that they never supported Trump. (Even though they did. )
And what about all the underling toadies?
To continue to do Trump's bidding might just land them in prison.
Will they continue to do his illegal dirty work for him?
It will be interesting to see.
soothsayer
(38,601 posts)SheltieLover
(57,073 posts)Kablooie
(18,572 posts)Proud Liberal Dem
(24,355 posts)Windy City Charlie
(1,178 posts)All he has to do is say he plans to run again
sfstaxprep
(9,998 posts)I think there's a 70% chance he'll be the nominee in 2024.
And NO, I doubt he's going to jail, but feel free to fantasize about that outcome.
MyOwnPeace
(16,888 posts)there are plenty of attorneys in the state of New York that would be willing to add fact to any such fantasy.
sfstaxprep
(9,998 posts)I just don't see a former President getting put behind bars. If in the unlikely event he were even charged, I doubt the case would ever get to trial.
The worst that will happen to him, already has, when he got Impeached by the House. There was no chance anything worse would ever happen, even though he's guilty of Many crimes.
PutGramaOnThePhone
(236 posts)70% chance? Major buzz kill . Actually I dont know if there is much of a buzz - maybe some of us finally feeling a kind of sense of relief.
And YES, I just dont see trump going to jail. There is a lot of fantasizing around here about it happening.
iemitsu
(3,888 posts)They will still be assh**es with or without Trump.
dutch777
(2,871 posts)...what do they have to hang their hat on? Sadly, too many toadies like Ernst and Graham and McConnell were returned to the Senate. That we couldn't even unseat Ernst and Collins is something the Dem strategists need to do some serious analysis on. And why we didn't take Florida for Biden. Glad we will dump Trump but without the Senate any timely or meaningful progress will be hard.
PutGramaOnThePhone
(236 posts)serious analysis needed. Such high hopes. I - pretty much on naive wishful thinking, powered by rage - assumed Collins was a goner. I dont know how to describe feeling crushed and relieved at the same time. I felt we just HAD to defeat trump. Mission *probably* accomplished, but it really hurts me to know McConnell will still be just where this epitome of evil (melodramatic much?) wants to be.
regnaD kciN
(26,035 posts)...but there are a lot of Republicans there that came of age during the Tea Party sweeps, and who are allied to Trump not just because he could help them achieve their goals of tax cuts and a conservative majority on the SCOTUS, but because he is "their kind of Republican."
As someone commented on MSNBC today, it's easy to blame Trump for everything that's happened among Republicans, but he's only a symptom, not the cause. Everything from Nixon's "hardhats" to the "Reagan Democrats" to the Tea Party have merely been steps along the same path of racism and white resentment, and now those people are the majority of Republican officeholders. They won't repudiate Trump, because they are Trump.
Salviati
(6,002 posts)trump may have sped things up by a few years, because he realized that he could hijack the party by out-pandering the mainstream republicans, pumping hate and bile directly into the base, but he didn't go anywhere the republican party wasn't heading for in a few years anyway.
liberal N proud
(60,302 posts)Ferrets are Cool
(21,063 posts)they wont stop for the next 51 months.
marylandblue
(12,344 posts)Is he going to be obstructionist again? Maybe that's not in his interest. I hope he sees that not, but if not, I hope can Biden can make it in his interest. He must know some good tricks he can use from all those years in the Senate.