OK, smart people at DU - what are your thoughts on how this will all play out? I am at a loss..

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5. The GOP is playing a formula...

.....that formula is that 35-40% are going to believe anything and everything that the Republican and their approved media tell them. These people will literally light themselves on fire if a Republican tells them that it will piss off a liberal.

There's another 10% that aren't AS hyperpartisan but lean right, and are probably gullible enough to believe the shit that the other 35-40% tell them that they heard.

Add in another 10-20% who are just completely apathetic and don't care about any of it and will never care about any of it no matter what happens or how it impacts them.

Trump was the first person at a national level to truly and completely gamble on these numbers and pandering to that core, and rolling the dice that they wouldn't care about previous statements, wouldn't care about inconsistencies or hypocrisy or contradictions or whatever as long as he hated the right people. He rolled the dice and proved that it would work and that he could win doing that.

And now the GOP realizes that these numbers will hold they are going to ride it as far as they can take it and as far as they need to dismantle any traces of liberalism or progressive thought and law.

How will this play out? Nobody is going to be appointed to investigate this.....they'll just do some moderate overtures and strong words that maybe sort of signal caring about it. They'll keep ginning up the outrage machine and do everything they can to move on from it and the media will enable them.

I predict they'll ride this out and in a month or two it will be relegated to nothing more than a conspiracy theory.