The post-Trump GOP, gutted

[DonViejo]

Jim VandeHei

Republicans will emerge from the Trump era gutted financially, institutionally and structurally.

The big picture: The losses are stark and substantial.

They lost their congressional power.

Their two leaders, Mitch McConnell and Kevin McCarthy, are hamstrung by corporate blacklisting of their election-denying members.

The GOP brand is radioactive for a huge chunk of America.

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[volstork]

1. GOOD.

It's about damn time.

They've been gutting this country for years. Sauce for the goose....

[JHB]

2. On the other hand...

They still benefit from an overlapping array of media outlets pushing propaganda against Democrats and constantly attacking Democratic people and policies. Spreading mis- and disinformation is built into these outlets' business model, and they have very little incentive to change. For them, extremism in pursuit of eyeballs and clicks is no vice.

Also, about that corporate blacklist: they say that now, when MAGA shit is still being scrubbed off the Capitol's floors. Will they keep to it? Or will they quietly pretend they never said that as the next two years go by?

[dalton99a]

5. +1

[lastlib]

11. There are still plenty of griftees who still believe.....

My facebook feed is filled with them!

[Wicked Blue]

3. And they are losing big corporate donors

at least temporarily

[NRaleighLiberal]

4. ...and yet most still tell of the BIG LIE.

they've learned nothing

[Demsrule86]

6. Everything Trump touches dies...you were warned.

[NewJeffCT]

7. I hope this is true

But, the GOP survived causing the Great Depression in 1929 and then openly supporting Fascism in the 1930s.

[malaise]

8. Kevin was one of them

Fuck all ReTHUGs

[Johnny2X2X]

9. They'll just pretend the last 4 years didn't happen

Get ready for it, there will be no reckoning, they're just going to pretend none of it happened.

[uponit7771]

10. MAGA and KKK and NAZI should be spoken of in the same context