There's No Reason to Think Republicans Are Ready to Move on From Trump

[brooklynite]

New York Times

Mr. Vance’s win will likely come as a disappointment to some Republicans who have been quietly hoping that Mr. Trump’s grip on the party is slipping. They see the midterms as an existential moment for the party. They are acutely aware that if the candidates he endorsed do well, the feeling of inevitability that he will be the party’s nominee in 2024 increases, annihilating any hope of reconstituting a political coalition around anything other than fealty to Mr. Trump.

And some Republicans have also worried that some of the outlandish candidates endorsed by Mr. Trump could lose winnable races.

Yet conservatives must be honest. At this time, there is no moving past Mr. Trump. He has remade the Republican Party in his image, and many Republican voters now crave his particular brand of combative politics.

In races across the country, Republicans who have won Mr. Trump’s endorsement mention it constantly. Even those who didn’t win his endorsement still mention him constantly. Mr. Trump might not have endorsed them, but they all endorse him.

[Achilleaze]

1. Repubes have cast their lot with dark-side Profits

[Turbineguy]

2. The country can withstand more damage.

[SoCalDavidS]

3. Why Should They?

He's suffered NO CONSEQUENCES, and is still a viable candidate for them.

I'm Susan Collins SHOCKED that he hasn't learned his lesson, and still continues to spew Bullshit about how he won the 2020 election.

It's almost like it's meant to be that he runs again in 2 years, and wins the nomination handily. Because, he can. He is in the same exact position as he was when he left office in January 2021.

[randr]

4. Vance won with a third of republican votes

Not what I would call a majority in his own party