This is what happens when 1 man hollows out a party

[D_Master81]

What we are seeing in the speakers race is what happens when the entire GOP subjugated itself to the whims and demands of Donald Trump. There is absolutely NO leadership in the party outside of him. Until they cut him loose and move on this is what the GOP will look like.

[Ocelot II]

1. I am wondering whether the GOP is in a doom loop of its own creation.

They are completely in thrall to TFG because they fear the power of his base. But how powerful is that base, really? Has TFG deliberately created the illusion that his base is still powerful enough to control everything GOPers can do (like elect a Speaker). But maybe it really isn't, and GOPers are acting in fear of a force that isn't real?

[maxsolomon]

2. They were fucked up long before * conned them.

The GQP base is thoroughly propagandized and doesn't know down from up. They're DEPLORABLE.

[Arthur_Frain]

14. Yeah this is the endgame for them

Started over 40 years ago.

[RockRaven]

3. 1 man didn't do this to the party... Thousands of asshole politicians and millions of

dumbfuck voters did.

[RKP5637]

4. Wouldn't it be nice if he sank the GOP! n/t

[Deuxcents]

5. The republicans took the same oath

The Democrats took. The r’s let themselves be “hollowed out” with the Tea Party movement and never looked back and the voters are just as responsible for not demanding governance by keeping them in office. Having said that, tfg found the rot and made it what we’ve got today.

[BootinUp]

6. Another way to look at it

is the party is owned by scammers, they all have a little piece of the scam and don't want to let it go.

[usonian]

7. He's actually the symptom. The disease had taken over long ago.

Decades of hate, anti-semitism, racism, "Government's the problem" (they meant regulation and corporate taxes), conspiracy theories, misogyny, militarized Qristianity, Assault weapon lust, Mitch grooming religious fanatics for the court ...

So this morphed into personality politics and a cult. Then "The Man Who Would Be King" got a flesh wound

Says "T'is but a scratch". But continues to lose battles.



Nothing left. Tries head-butting ...

[k55f5r]

9. From the 1970s

Republicans have been working towards drowning the government in a bathtub. What happened with Trump is they saw the light at the end of the tunnel with his attempt at authoritarian rule.
When he floundered at the end and didn't declare martial law and finish his coup, the lead Republicans thought they could still pull it off by denying the fact that it was a coup. It almost worked, the DOJ was going to let bygones be bygones, but that pesky pelosi had to go and start an investigation. Thank Dog everyday for Nancy Pelosi.

[usonian]

10. She was acting President for four years

and saved it from a coup. A national hero.

[erronis]

8. Don't think little donnie was capable of this. He had lots of help

from US and foreign forces that wanted this country to fail.

I'll call out most mega-rich capitalists in the US as well as the oligarchs/plutocrats from around the world. They don't want any regulations or limits on their ability to plunder the world.

[Maru Kitteh]

11. But they offered themselves up, buffet style, because they all thought they

would be able to outlast the others and use Trump for whatever they wanted. Because they're all a bunch of snakes.

[kentuck]

12. I think they are trying to "cut him loose"..

He only has 25-30 votes that continue to hang with him. A very small minority of the House.

But, it is enough to keep them from doing anything.

[radicalleft]

13. I agree with others that * was the result-

He parrotted back what they have been saying for years...

The patron saint of the current puke party is Rush Limpnuts...he IMHO laid the foundations of the modern puke party.