Where do Republican lawmakers go from here? Into oblivion with Trump? Or stand up for the only thing they care about?

[Doodley]

Which is themselves.

[efhmc]

1. Both.

[Arazi]

2. They're in too deep. Their master is telling them to hit the gas pedal

Blow up the filibuster and do every shitty thing.

And they’ll obey.

They’re too far gone into this cult of personality to extricate themselves. It’s now or never for the rest of Project 2025 and my bet is they double down and ram it through no matter what

[LeftinOH]

3. They're going to double-down on the bullsh!t....

*They'll claim that any Democratic win is fraud/corrupt.
*Even more crude AI videos showing Trump "owning the libs"
*Even more lies about "Antifa," "Radical-left" bogeymen
*Sending more troops to big cities to deal with a non-existent crime wave
*Extra layers of narrative about Trump & the GOP needing to fulfill biblical prophecy...

[pat_k]

7. And with every excess they will alienate more of the public.

There is only one way to go. They got all the people who weren't well-defended against that shit. More and more of the ones they got are turning away in disgust. It will become a contagion. By midterms a whole lot of trump voters will either be denouncing him or claiming they never voted for him.

Time will tell how massively the tide is turning, but I suspect we'll be seeing political will grow in favor of policies like universal health care, inheritance tax, wealth tax, and even doing things like spending those tax dollars on concrete benefits for all (e.g. Piketty-style Inheritance for All ).

[C_U_L8R]

4. Self preservation wins

Trump is, and has always been, a road to nowhere but doom and bankruptcy. But first, they gotta steal more while they can.

[pat_k]

5. Little cracks became bigger cracks (tariff votes, MTG). Those cracks will widen and multiply.

Trumpublicans in the U.S. House and Senate, State legislatures, governor's offices, mayor's offices , school boards, councils, commissions, judges, and on and on, who won by less than 15% are shaking in their boots because at this point they know an anti-Trump primary challenger is in their future.

Those who won by less than 15% fear being primaried too, but they also fear being sent packing by an Independent or Democrat.

They will continue to be radical right assholes, but more and more of them will break on the tariffs, the illegal withholding of disaster aid, the other illegal impoundments, the cruelty of hoarding USDA section 32 funds that should be keeping farmers in business while stocking food banks and child nutrition programs, the insanity of ICE gone gestapo, turning the DOJ into corruption central, and on and on.

Few will break on all of it, but I firmly believe we'll be hearing more Trumpublicans making critical (likely mild, but still critical) statements about the abuses.

Tragically, the corporate media and others who have been co-opted still fear Trump more than they fear the public, but as the public gets louder and more critical in boycotts, letters to editors, viral social media memes, that could start shifting too.

[dutch777]

6. It will be interesting to see if some GOPers start to push back and make waves as there is a reconning coming 2026.

Many will stay the course due to missing a spine and a brain and maybe having no better idea, but some in swing districts may be forced to get on a new path or seek a new vocation.