Ex-GOP Officials Look to Form Anti-Trump Party

[babylonsister]

https://politicalwire.com/2021/02/10/ex-gop-officials-look-to-form-anti-trump-party/

Ex-GOP Officials Look to Form Anti-Trump Party
February 10, 2021 at 10:22 pm EST By Taegan Goddard

“Dozens of former Republican officials, who view the party as unwilling to stand up to former President Donald Trump and his attempts to undermine U.S. democracy, are in talks to form a center-right breakaway party,” Reuters reports.

“The early stage discussions include former elected Republicans, former officials in the Republican administrations of Ronald Reagan, George H.W. Bush, George W. Bush and Trump, ex-Republican ambassadors and Republican strategists.”

“More than 120 of them held a Zoom call last Friday to discuss the breakaway group, which would run on a platform of ‘principled conservatism,’ including adherence to the Constitution and the rule of law – ideas those involved say have been trashed by Trump.”

[North Shore Chicago]

1. They better do something,

or face losing more seats and credibility for the next 20 years.

[Eid Ma Clack Shaw]

2. Unfortunately, I suspect a new party helps the GOP & will win them elections.

The Trump hardcore won’t deviate from anything that has his blessing - something like this will peel away ‘Never Trump’ Republicans who’ve voted Democratic in recent cycles in greater numbers than Republicans who’ve stuck with the party through Trump because no elected Republican is going to leave; the face of the party will be the very same as it has been for several years now, and most Republicans have been thrilled to vote for that.

The only way a new party ends up being to their detriment is if Trump himself causes the schism.

[Jirel]

3. This can only be a good thing.

In the shortest term, it may mean that some Repugs who voted Dem peel off again.
But in the short term it is still a benefit, as it will split the conservatives and fascists into 2 parties, splitting their vote and causing lots of internal food fights.
In the long term it may be even more valuable. If there are 2 conservative parties, we can only hope that the Bizarroland Party of Dump cultists will eventually be overtaken and keep losing, so that the cultists will once again lose their interest in politics and voting. Then we can hope that some will grow up, and the rest will stay disaffected but disempowered until that generation is a bad memory.

[bullwinkle428]

4. I suppose they can hold their conventions in a phone booth, if they

still existed...

[KY_EnviroGuy]

5. That just means two separate groups to lie about Democrats....

and push and fund hard right dogma. They will always unify in the voting booth.

This just gives them two separate bubbles to exist in so they won't hurt each other. It also gives the ultra-wealthy donors a choice as to which group of assholes they prefer to support.


Not what we need and it's not what America needs......

[PRETZEL]

6. Yeah, right

moderate Repubblicans were overrun by Tea Party Republicans who were overrun MAGA Republicans.

Ain't going to be a spin off party. By 2024 or 2028, there'll be a new faction which will overrun the MAGA's.