What happens to the Republican Party now? (2 Viewers)

[MT15]

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?

 

[Saint Jack]

The caveat I'd add to the (on the face of it entirely reasonable) "there isn't another Trump" is that there wasn't a first Trump, until there was.

He was a joke candidate. Polling at 2-4%, 150-1 odds at the start in 2015.

We all know what happened next unfortunately.

But the point is, no-one realised Trump was this Trump until it happened. We may or may not see the next one coming.

Everyone forgets that Trump has been building his campaign for decades.
People forget, but when the Simpsons did that Trump joke he had a 2000 Presidential Campaign.
And he carefully built it during the Obama administration when he made regular call in appearances on Fox News.
Make no mistake, he didn’t get off the couch and decide to run.

 

[RobF]

Everyone forgets that Trump has been building his campaign for decades.
People forget, but when the Simpsons did that Trump joke he had a 2000 Presidential Campaign.
And he carefully built it during the Obama administration when he made regular call in appearances on Fox News.
Make no mistake, he didn’t get off the couch and decide to run.

By the start, I was referring to the start of polling in 2015. That was where all that previous history had got him to at that point.

 

[Saint Jack]

I don’t think that is actually true. Not any longer. Going from memory the highest % that voted for Trump came in the 40-50’s age group. Maybe 40-65. Over 65’s weren’t as high a % I don’t think.

Edit: looking at your age, maybe you think those folks won’t be around, lol.

Also Barron is 19 I’m guessing. Eligible to run in 16 years.

16 years is a long time.
I can only use myself as an example but I viewed Reagan as soooo old because they were my grandparents choice (side note, they were vastly anti Trump while they were alive)
Same with the Bushes.

And here’s another aspect, for the past decades the Trump name has been associated (rightly or wrongly) with wealth and a certain status.
That’s not happening now.
Not to be mean, but as the years go by, that name is gonna be associated being more rural and whatever shine that name had in the 80s and 90s to the 00s when the Trump name getting name dropped in every other rap song isn’t happening.

 

[Saint Jack]

If JD is the GOP’s future, they are done.