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(52,196 posts)they didn't need his inept leadership, they didn't need his incompetent salesmanship, they didn't need his non-existent arm-twisting.
they have no use for his legislative ignorance, and they didn't need donnie to rally public support all the way up to the low 30s.
donnie was completely useless, if not an active hindrance to the process. his sole contribution will be signing the damn thing, and pence or any other republican president would do just as well in his stead.
the only thing they ever needed from donnie was to defeat hillary. after that, he was and has been essentially useless to republicans.
they are no more likely to turn on him now than a week or a month ago.
if anything, they have fallen in line behind him because unity going into campaign season is probably more important than jettisoning their leader (a huge, huge risk in their authoritarian culture).
keep in mind that even if they pine for donnie to simply go away, **they can't be seen as playing any role in making that happen**.
maybe they quietly pray for donnie to die, but they know donnie still has big support among republicans and there would be hell to pay in the primaries for any republican who actively tries to kick donnie out or even to be seen as opposing him.