Trump threatens to wreak havoc on GOP from beyond the White House

[DonViejo]

His attacks on Republican governors since his loss offer a sample of what's in store.

By ALEX ISENSTADT

11/22/2020 08:53 AM EST

President Donald Trump has spent the three weeks since he lost the election savaging a pair of GOP governors for not backing his claims he was robbed.

Republicans are worried it’s just the start of what’s in store from the soon-to-be-ex-president.

Trump’s attacks on Georgia Gov. Brian Kemp and Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine — both of whom are up for reelection in 2022 — has led to broader concerns within the party that he will use his post-presidency to exact revenge on perceived enemies and insert himself into races in ways that are not helpful.


While the 2022 midterm elections are a ways off, the president’s broadsides are giving fuel to would-be primary challengers in both states — raising the prospect that Republicans will be forced into ugly and expensive nomination fights that could jeopardize their hold on the two governors’ mansions.

Trump’s intrusions into Georgia and Ohio provide an early test case for how he might use his stranglehold on the conservative base to control the party long after he leaves the White House. Never mind that Trump will no longer be in power: Cross him, and you will pay.

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https://www.politico.com/news/2020/11/22/trump-wreak-havoc-gop-white-house-438859

[Beaverhausen]

1. Didn't he win Ohio?

[Ohiogal]

10. Yes he won Ohio

And for the most part,DeWine has been a good little minion. But he made the ultimate error in referring to Biden as the “President-Elect” so naturally the vengeful toddler will spew his hatred.

[BusyBeingBest]

2. Ha ha. Suck it, assholes.

Enjoy the monster you created.

[Baclava]

3. He'll be running for his Bolivian cave hideout when the criminal negligent lawsuits against him star

All 250,000 of them

or maybe he can tweet from his jail cell in Leavonworth? I dont think they let him

[LakeArenal]

4. 🙄...Eventually trump will be the troll under some bridge.

[ShazzieB]

5. Republicans must be ruing the day they decided to let that mangy orange fox into their hen house!

[LakeArenal]

7. I'm not so sure. The cock got the courts packed for them.

I think they are more than done with him tho.

[Baclava]

6. He'll be running for his Bolivian cave hideout when criminal negligent lawsuits against him start

All 250,000 of them

or maybe he can tweet from his jail cell in Leavenworth? I dont think they let him

[Ferrets are Cool]

8. Maybe they will help put him in prison.

Hey, a guy can hope.

[mucifer]

19. nope deplorables worship trump not so much republicans.

[no_hypocrisy]

9. That's been his underlying theme all these years.

That's how he gets the votes in the House and in the Senate, sometimes in red states. Revenge.

[mzmolly]

11. I think he'll be less of a political threat from a prison

cell.

[procon]

12. Republican infighting, Trump's revenge, the rabid

rightwing base might make it easier for Democratic candidates to get elected to offices that were once firmly locked into the GOPs control.

The Republican Party has been gravely weakened by its pathetic fawning to enable Trump. Even when Trump is out if office they will still fear his disapproval and won't break away from him, neither will they dare say anything their base disagrees with.

This opens the door to Democrats, if they are cagey enough to use it.

[tulipsandroses]

13. Spineless, Gutless sycophants. What can he do now? He lost. I'd be taunting him. I'd say something

like hey tell Giuliani not to use Just For Men before he shows up in the NY Courthouse.

[SWBTATTReg]

14. The GOP should have dealt w/ trump when he first appeared on the scene. He wasn't fully vested,

and pretty well coasted into the nomination, I suspect helped along by the Russians and other nefarious entities. Now, they all face (the GOP and their thugs) all face a reckoning, as they should. They, like someone in a prior posting, let the fox into the hen house and no one else did.

Thing is, if trump is going to burn down the hen house and all within it, he's going to burn up any chances of reconciliation, any help in the future that he may need (or trump's spawn demon kids too). Karma is a bitter pill to swallow, eh?

[ProudMNDemocrat]

15. Help Democrats win Donnie....

The gift that keeps on giving.

[barbtries]

16. let him.

it will not help him in the end. and it's certainly no less than the republicans deserve.
fuck them all to hell.

[TeamPooka]

17. Somehow I don't see him helping the GOP win two Senate seats in Georgia

just a gut feeling.

[MoonRiver]

23. From you gut to God's ears!

[Progressive Jones]

18. The article mentions trump's "conservative base". These losers are NOT Conservatives. nt

[Biophilic]

20. Everyone knows what happens when you defer to a bully

I suspect the Republican's will eventually come clean and crying about how Trump was 'mean' to them. Won't matter. It will be too late to undo the damage both on a national and international level. They are pathetic in their whimpiness. They make me so angry.

[bluestarone]

21. THIS is probably as close to HIM CONCEDING as we're gonna get

[world wide wally]

22. Trump is fighting his loss this hard because he knows that as soon as he is no longer

In office, his power will fade like an old comic book left outside in the Sun.

[Guilded Lilly]

24. America has a fifteen minute attention span, nurtured in part by...

Reality Show mentality spawned by the Cretin.

His fifteen minutes will be longggggg over by midterms.

[JGladstone]

25. Smoke and mirrors

Trump has delivered to the GOP, the owners, and their capitalist bootlickers everything they've ever dreamed of. Beyond that...he's provided perfect cover for reactionary Republicans like Jennifer Rubin, Ana Navaro, Steve Schmidt, the Lincoln Project, Kasich, Romney, and the rest of their ilk to look sane and rational. He also provided centrist and conservative Democrats with a convenient excuse to shut down the "left of the party" (which actually stands for mild reform of capitalist barbarism) as radical."

[Leith]

26. rethug behavior will be interesting after the orange god is gone

Will they revert to their previous behavior during the Obama Administration? Then the answer is "you were fine when chump did ten times worse."

If they start denying that they let the destructive toddler rule their lives and ruin the country, then we can ask "just explain your silence when he did such-and-such."

Either way, I want to know what blackmail that monster held over their heads.