It would have to swing back to center. Once the Trump shadow is not hanging over those with a more moderate view of things they will come out of the shadows not being in fear of being blackballed by the lickspittles that have cozied up to him. Problem is I don't see anyone on the bench yet to be the one.
I wonder if the party would welcome back the true conservative never Trumpers or is the party too far gone? Is the party so divided a viable 3rd party will emerge? Will this also cause the Democrats to skew and spilt as well into far left and center left parties?
And I don't think we can expect them to DIE OUT they are actually doing a good job of Multiplying Rocket River
Do not underestimate the Dobbs decision going forward. This will be a monkey on the Rs back, until a national abortion-until-viability law is passed … and the SCOTUS does not decide to ignore it.
Well Think of it like this Without Trump . . . Who is the Face of the party? Trump controls the Trumpers The next face of the Party will be controled BY THE TRUMPERS JD Vance? Ted Cruise? DeSantis? Haley? Dan Crenshaw? Lindsey Graham? or worse - Too stupid to control anything and will be easily manipulated by the Elon Musk's of the world Marjorie Taylor Green? Lauren Brobert? Tim Scott? Matt Gaetz? I went an looked up the republicans top brass and most of them i don't know so maybe that will be a good thing . .. but if they let any of the above be the FACE OF THE PARTY they in trouble and on a path to complete maddness Rocket River
Is an indi-ocracy where college radio stations create the government and play excellent music all day in the nation's capitol? An inauguration ball with a Pavement, Fugazi, and Public Enemy reunion? Where can I sign up? J/K, I know you meant Idiocracy, which looks more and more like a documentary every day.
Can you get Rage Against the Machine on the lineup. I fear my last shot of seeing them got destroyed by the VID.
I know some of the right leaning posters here like to cite Bill Maher. I don’t know if any of them posted this one. whoops worn thread meant to post it in the Presidential election thread.
It’s a turning point. GOP is losing more and more votes because their constituents are leaving or dying off. Instead of fixing things they’re trying to ‘fix’ things so their decreasing minority can cling to power. Everyone hates boomers so they need to champion their non-crackpot younger faces. GOP needs a hard reset in values and marketing. This is a good reason for Trump to lose. There are tens of millions of conservative and independent voters who want to see it.
even if Trump loses the election by a wide margin, I still don’t think the republican party will move away from Trumpism they have radicalized their base…they’re not going for some sane, milquetoast republican drop Trump and move away from Trumpism, and half the base will be gone…these people are voting for Trump, it’s a cult of personality with fealty to one man
they’re in a tough spot…majority of the country can’t stand the MAGAt movement making it hard for republicans to win elections, but they can’t afford to alienate the deplorables because they need their votes these people will hate u and call u a RINO if u say things like the 2020 election wasn’t stolen or Jan 6th was bad…you’ll lose your primary