The '24 Election Will End The Republican Party As We Know It

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[no_hypocrisy]

1. But will the Republican Party return to its pre-Trump incantation or

become something else?

[Buckeyeblue]

3. I think the MAGA element will always be there

But will that group lose its influence? I suspect the MAGAs will get back in line with more traditional Republicans (if there are any left) because if they don't they will not win very many elections.

[Lonestarblue]

7. I think it has been moving toward a Christian Nationalism party.

Trump is not the force behind Christian Nationalism, so if he loses nothing really changes there. People like Leonard Leo, and many organizations pump lots of money into their lies and campaigns to criminalize abortion and just being LGBTQ+. Those who are not Republican extremists who want to see the US ruled as a theocracy will leave the party, and the extremists will only get worse. As just one example, I think of a group calling the selves the Abortion Abolitionists, who have introduced laws to punish any woman who has an abortion for any reason with prosecution and the death penalty. Women who have a miscarriage at home would be hauled into court to prove that it was natural and punished if they could not.

Extremism only works to a certain point, and I do not think that the Christian Nationalists will achieve their goals. But to prevent that, it’s vitally important for Democrats to hold the presidency and the Senate to prevent hundreds more judges like Matthew Kacsmaryk (the Texas judge ruling that the FDA could not approve the abortion drugs) from being appointed, judges who try to use the courts to turn their religious views into law.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. THUMP TRUMP!!!

[scarletlib]

4. That's for sure if he gets control of the party apparatus. At the very least he will bankrupt the Republicans.

He will clean out their coffers.

[Think. Again.]

5. That would be good...

....if we can obliterate the republican party for good, then the Democratic party can take the most right-leaning spot by staying what it is, and other, more progressive parties can move into place to the left of us, creating a more compassionate, diverse, fair, and equitable nation overall!

A win-win!

[redqueen]

6. That has been coming long before tsf entered politics

Demographics make it inevitable

We have to worry about religiosity and young men being radicalized. Otherwise we should be heading toward the expected and predicted democratic majority that has been predicted for decades.

Then we can work on pushing the Overton window back toward some semblance of sanity.