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    This election nonsense by Trump may end up splitting up the Republican Party. I just don’t see how the one third (?) who are principled conservatives can stay in the same party with Trump sycophants who are willing to sign onto the TX Supreme Court case.

    We also saw the alt right types chanting “destroy the GOP” in Washington today because they didn’t keep Trump in power. I think the Q types will also hold the same ill will toward the traditional Republican Party. In fact its quite possible that all the voters who are really in a Trump personality cult will also blame the GOP for his loss. It’s only a matter of time IMO before Trump himself gets around to blaming the GOP.

    There is some discussion of this on Twitter. What do you all think?



     
    So, now the head of the Republican Party says the Constitution and all voting “rules, regulations, and articles” should be terminated.

     
    MT15 said:
    So, now the head of the Republican Party says the Constitution and all voting “rules, regulations, and articles” should be terminated.

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    THis is just the beginning, wait until he gets really desperate…..it’s going to be fun to watch….I just hope he destroys the R party along with himself…..
     
    Interesting read, this is the first time I’ve heard Pat Buchanan blamed for what the GOP has turned into

    It’s usually Newt, Rush and Fox
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    One cannot be surprised to find the Republican Party adrift. This is what happens to ships boarded by pirates, plundered and set aflame on the high seas.


    Poor Kevin McCarthy (Calif.), leader of the House majority-to-be: How glum he looks as the Cuckoo Caucus binds his hands to walk the plank of a doomed speakership. He knows he will soon bob helplessly amid the same swarm of sharks that devoured predecessors Paul D. Ryan and John A. Boehner.


    The pendulum of history suggests that something will eventually be salvaged of the GOP. But it won’t be a quick fix, because righting the ship is not simply a matter of striking the orange skull and crossbones and raising the standard of some better-behaved buccaneer. Deeper problems made the party vulnerable to raiding in the first place.


    The problems go back 30 years. Republicans created in the 1970s and 1980s some of the strongest presidential mojo in American history.

    The five nationwide elections during that period — 1972, 1976, 1980, 1984 and 1988 — produced four GOP landslides, including some of the largest on record. Republicans lost only once, in 1976, in a squeaker, when the economy was mired in stagflation and the Republican incumbent had resigned in disgrace two years earlier.


    The combined electoral college votes in those five elections was 2,200 for the Republican candidates to 487 for the Democrats. Republicans won more than 425 electoral votes four times; no Democrat won as many as 300 even once in those two decades.


    Americans have voted in eight presidential elections in the three decades since. Only once, in 2004, has the Republican won a majority of the popular vote. Running as an incumbent in wartime, George W. Bush eked out 51 percent of the popular vote against a weak opponent named John F. Kerry.

    What happened? Until the GOP faces the answer, it will continue to drift as a national party.
The landslides ended in 1992.

    Many Republicans remember it as the year Texas billionaire H. Ross Perot flew a suicide mission into George H.W. Bush’s reelection campaign. But the first fatal blow to Bush Sr. was dealt by hard-right pundit Patrick J. Buchanan.

    His angry populist campaign carried all the way to the convention, where he traded a grudging endorsement of Bush for influence over the opening-night program. Buchanan anchored an evening of hatreds and resentments that presaged the politics of today……..

     
    Well, I think we’re at the point now that we have to wonder if it’s cowardice or is it actually sympathy with the statements? When you cannot break with the proposal of “termination” of the Constitution, maybe it’s because you don’t see it as a problem.

     
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    Literally no Democrat cares if Hunter Biden is prosecuted if he committed crimes. He's not elected—we're not a cult. In fact, if he committed a crime, prosecute him! Be our guest! We just call it *absurd* that MAGAs—who let Kushner & Ivanka make $640M while "government employees" and get $2B...
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    So are we going to just collectively blow off a terror attack on our soil that killed power for 40,000 people?
    I mean, I heard one media source call it vandalism ffs.
    Vandalism is spray painting a dick on the water tower, shooting out a substation is terrorism.
     
    Taurus said:
    So are we going to just collectively blow off a terror attack on our soil that killed power for 40,000 people?
    I mean, I heard one media source call it vandalism ffs.
    Vandalism is spray painting a dick on the water tower, shooting out a substation is terrorism.
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    This is the problem with the so-called “leftist” media. They are far more conciliatory to the right wing than they are anybody else. Hell, it took them years before they would call Trump’s lies what they are. They spent years saying he was mistaken or wrong. When everyone knew he was just lying.
     

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