The Republican Plan for the Next Four Years Isn't Normal

[Nevilledog]

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Sen. Lindsey Graham: "Right now, assuming for the moment that Biden wins, it’s Trump’s nomination if he wants it. “He has a lot of sway over the Republican Party ... In many ways, he'll be a shadow president."

The Republican Plan for the Next Four Years Isn’t Normal
The GOP may function primarily as a promotional tool for Trump—to the detriment of its future.
theatlantic.com
6:44 AM · Dec 6, 2020

https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2020/12/trump-will-reign-atop-gop-until-2024/617300/

A national party whose leaders won a civil war in the 19th century and a cold war in the 20th looks to be little more than a promotional tool for Donald Trump at this point in the 21st.

Trump will lose his titular role as head of the GOP when he leaves office on January 20, but a party cowed by his grip on voters is poised to advance his interests even when he’s out of power. The Republican apparatus is coalescing behind its defeated leader and supplying Trump with a platform as he recasts himself as a kingmaker with ambitions of his own.

He’ll get plenty of help from outside the party structure. Conservative media will keep a relentless focus on Trump as he torments Joe Biden from exile. And at a grassroots level, Republican voters will likely donate to a new political-action committee he’s created as they pine for him to run one more time. (They may not have to wait long: In a brazen bit of counterprogramming, Trump could launch his next campaign during the Biden-inauguration events he’ll likely snub.)

Forces inside the party are trying to stop him. A few prominent officials, past and present, believe the GOP risks extinction unless it purges a president who has relied heavily on a diminishing slice of white voters. They’re trying—and, so far, struggling—to win converts and excommunicate Trump. They’re up against a GOP leadership that’s determined to break from past practice and stick with an ousted president teasing the idea of a comeback.

For Trump, the party is a bankable asset under any scenario. Foreign governments considering his company’s projects might be more receptive knowing a once-and-perhaps-future president is on the other side of the deal. Audiences may be more apt to tune in if Trump starts a conservative news venture. Candidates looking for fundraising help will be courting Trump, enabling him to stockpile chits. So will members of Congress hoping to make inroads with his base.

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[FoxNewsSucks]

1. I don't understand why cities

counties etc would continue to pay the costs of MF45's nazi rallies. He'll be a private citizen, one who is known to not pay bills. That alone should be keeping him and his cult out of arenas.

[Baitball Blogger]

2. +1

[uponit7771]

5. +1,

[Laelth]

8. He will go to smaller, Republican-led cities.

Look at what he had to do in Georgia. Valdosta?



That’s not exactly a major, Georgia metropolis. He had to go to Valdosta because Atlanta, Augusta, Savannah, Columbus, Macon, Albany, Athens, and Rome (all larger cities) wouldn’t host him.

-Laelth

[uponit7771]

3. I SAID THIS !!! I'VE SAID THIS FOR WEEKS !! They ***WORSHIP*** Trump and Trump will demand

... their loyalty and for the do what he says.

the worst thing for the Republican party is for them to win the Senate in Donald Trump still be a player in policy in America

[Baitball Blogger]

4. I remember after Bush II won the election, the right was terrified that

Clinton would do, exactly what Trump plans to do to Biden.

[Mariana]

6. The Republicans have no plan for the next four years

Remember they didn't even bother to publish a platform, they just issued a notice that they will "enthusiastically" support Trump in whatever he wants to do.

https://ballotpedia.org/The_Republican_Party_Platform,_2020

[Laelth]

7. I agree with this assessment.

Trump won’t just “fade away” like W did.

As for the rest of the Republican Party, it will be business as usual—obstruct everything as they attempt to prove, once again, that government doesn’t work. They do this by INSURING that government doesn’t work.

-Laelth

[ooky]

9. This is why we have to prosecute him for his crimes.

It's more difficult for him to run for president from a prison cell or outside the U.S. avoiding prosecution. Go after his assets, make him spend his money on criminal and civil legal defenses. Also, it's time to stop calling them conservatives and start calling them what they are. They are fascists, not conservatives, and the entire Trumper "movement" should be labeled as a fascist takeover movement.