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applegrove

(132,207 posts)
Wed Aug 16, 2023, 05:02 PM Aug 2023

Why the Republican Party Isn't Moving On from Trump

Why the Republican Party Isn’t Moving On from Trump

August 16, 2023 at 3:16 pm EDT By Taegan Goddard 116 Comments

https://politicalwire.com/2023/08/16/why-the-republican-party-isnt-moving-on-from-trump/

"SNIP........

Seth Masket: “The folks who run the party now are the populist grassroots outside DC. They decide who gets nominated for office and who doesn’t. They don’t see this as a temporary madness; they see this as the movement that put them in charge and actually cares about the things they care about. They don’t see any need to ‘snap out of it’; that concept doesn’t make sense to them.”

“Indeed, calling for them to snap out of it is essentially asking them to give power back to the previous faction that never took them seriously in the first place. Why would they want to do that? They’re in charge, and as far as they’re concerned they’re winning.”

“So no, they’re not going to abandon the guy who put them in power. Not even if he’s convicted, not even if he’s in prison. And yes, that means the country has a potentially awful election year coming up, in which the nation’s official institutions have deemed one party’s leader guilty and sentenced him and the nearly half the country considers those institutions illegitimate. It is a toxic, tragic, and potentially violent cocktail.”

.........SNIP"

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Brainfodder

(7,781 posts)
2. Why? A guy headed to prison is their front runner!
Wed Aug 16, 2023, 05:10 PM
Aug 2023

How many more worried about it posts until I get a free TFG NFT?







applegrove

(132,207 posts)
3. Gun crazies will be activated by Trump trials. Plus the man in second place
Wed Aug 16, 2023, 05:17 PM
Aug 2023

in the GOP wants to 'slit the throats' of elite bureaucrats and he thinks that is a good metaphor because he said it out loud. Plus the GOP is running on fascism. Three terrifying things.

Brainfodder

(7,781 posts)
5. Ron D. is toast as a viable candidate already, bring him on!
Wed Aug 16, 2023, 05:25 PM
Aug 2023

The media boss hogs still want TFG to look viable for ratings?



dlk

(13,247 posts)
4. Trump gives Republicans permission to act on their worst impulses
Wed Aug 16, 2023, 05:24 PM
Aug 2023

Given the nature of Republicans, in general, why would they willingly give that up?

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