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DonViejo

(60,536 posts) Fri Jan 15, 2021, 10:14 AM Jan 2021

The post-Trump GOP, gutted

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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The post-Trump GOP, gutted (Original Post) DonViejo Jan 2021 OP

GOOD. volstork Jan 2021 #1

On the other hand... JHB Jan 2021 #2

+1 dalton99a Jan 2021 #5

There are still plenty of griftees who still believe..... lastlib Jan 2021 #11

And they are losing big corporate donors Wicked Blue Jan 2021 #3

...and yet most still tell of the BIG LIE. NRaleighLiberal Jan 2021 #4

Everything Trump touches dies...you were warned. Demsrule86 Jan 2021 #6

I hope this is true NewJeffCT Jan 2021 #7

Kevin was one of them malaise Jan 2021 #8

They'll just pretend the last 4 years didn't happen Johnny2X2X Jan 2021 #9

MAGA and KKK and NAZI should be spoken of in the same context uponit7771 Jan 2021 #10

volstork

(5,875 posts)

1. GOOD.

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Jan 15, 2021, 10:18 AM

Jan 2021

It's about damn time.

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

JHB

(38,334 posts)

2. On the other hand...

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Jan 15, 2021, 10:27 AM

Jan 2021

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

(95,261 posts)

5. +1

Reply to JHB (Reply #2)

Fri Jan 15, 2021, 10:30 AM

Jan 2021

lastlib

(28,606 posts)

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

Reply to JHB (Reply #2)

Fri Jan 15, 2021, 11:09 AM

Jan 2021

My facebook feed is filled with them!

Wicked Blue

(9,019 posts)

3. And they are losing big corporate donors

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Jan 15, 2021, 10:27 AM

Jan 2021

at least temporarily

NRaleighLiberal

(61,910 posts)

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

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Jan 15, 2021, 10:28 AM

Jan 2021

they've learned nothing

Demsrule86

(71,555 posts)

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

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Jan 15, 2021, 10:30 AM

Jan 2021

NewJeffCT

(56,848 posts)

7. I hope this is true

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Jan 15, 2021, 10:33 AM

Jan 2021

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

malaise

(297,941 posts)

8. Kevin was one of them

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Jan 15, 2021, 10:35 AM

Jan 2021

Fuck all ReTHUGs

Johnny2X2X

(24,435 posts)

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

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Jan 15, 2021, 10:37 AM

Jan 2021

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

uponit7771

(93,532 posts)

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

Reply to DonViejo (Original post)

Fri Jan 15, 2021, 10:42 AM

Jan 2021

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