Tuesday, December 22, 2020

Untangling

 NY Times: Is Trump Really All That Holds the G.O.P. Together? The Republican Party has embraced reality-TV authoritarianism not out of strength but weakness. By Matthew Continetti - Mr. Continetti is a resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute.

Untangling the party from Mr. Trump will require Republican officials to follow the lead of conservative jurists and the growing number of lawmakers who acknowledge the reality of Joe Biden’s victory.

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6 comments:

Mark said...

Untangling the party from Tr**p? Is this a real question? Since there is nothing currently that suggests the GOP is anything but Tr**p's party, I call this question hypothetical.

"...Mr. Trump’s power over the right waxes...Mr. Trump is all it has."

This is it in a nutshell. Red America has it's ordained leader. Emboldened loyalists simply carry on.

12:24 PM
Jim Sande said...

The GOP will become fully focused and united once Biden takes over. At that point their only object will be to harm and obstruct Biden. Trump will fall out of the equation and whoever squawks the loudest will become the next leader.

1:28 PM
Mark said...

Loudest squawker for sure, but will it be someone to blatantly carry the tone of Tr**pism or will it be a sneaker version, like Pense?

The GOP has thrived as "The Party of NO" before, I suppose they'll do it again.

2:59 PM
Jim Sande said...

I think part of the pro-Trump fraud election wing of the GOP is for those people to demonstrate to the rest of Trump world that they have the right stuff to be president. I would fully expect Matt Gaetz or Ron Johnson to run in 2024.

4:45 PM
Mark said...

Thomas Friedman thinks the GOP could split into principled and unprincipled. That's a crazy optimist!
https://www.nytimes.com/2020/12/22/opinion/trump-republicans-party.html?smid=em-share

8:02 PM
Jim Sande said...

I've heard the Republican Democrats as the name for the party of never Trumpers like Rick Wilson and Steve Schmidt.

10:32 PM

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