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The next two years will be interesting to see what happens to them. They are in a civil war with the old neocons and the Trump loyalists.
Trump has the party by the balls. No matter how badly they want to get rid of him, the voter base loves him. If yesterday didn't prove that enough, Trump has a 95% approval rating with GOP voters. He is the most popular president to conservatives since Ronald Reagan. Mainstream media has spent 4 years dragging up any old, washed up neocon they can who professes to anti-Trump and just shoving a microphone in front of their face.
Libs and the media in general do not understand conservative voters, nor do they seem to want to try and understand their mindset. For the past 4 years, they've just been shoving old neocons in their face and any Republican who claims to be anti-Trump. The Lincoln Project is a joke and had a negative side effect. Anyone who lives in the rural south or has had to deal with Republican family knows that this isn't too hard to figure out. Conservatives vote Republican to go after the people they hate. It's about preventing the black people from moving into their neighborhoods, putting the LGBT back in the closet, hurting minorities and immigrants and sticking it to the poor. This is the reason why every Republican becomes a RINO to these people after they leave office and they latch onto something crazier and worse. Trump isn't a fluke. He said the quiet parts out loud and that is why they loved him from day 1 and why they still do. Liberals after 4 years still don't understand this and think the answer is to just be smug and condescending towards the people.
Yesterday should've been a wake up call to liberals after 4 years of them just treating these people as a joke, but they still think they're a joke. Libs will be shocked, SHOCKED when the next Trump comes along and manages to actually pull it off, cause these useless smug assholes learn nothing.
Trump was included in polls before he announced his candidacy in 2015, and wasn't polling exceptionally well. His speech announcing his candidacy was relatively unremarkable OTHER than him calling Mexicans criminals and rapists and he basically said he was gonna reverse the GOP project to try and figure out a way to appeal to latinx folks and be at least a little accommodating of undocumented workers. That position was all the media talked about.
And wouldn't you know it, Trump's poll numbers shot up like a rocket immediately after that...
Yep, I remember that cause I worked in Mobile Alabama back in 2015 where he announced his presidency and did his first rally. The mainstream media focused entirely on the racist stuff he said, but the local media in Alabama were in LOVE with him over it. This was right after the gay marriage SCOTUS ruling too. There were local preachers in Mobile who were championing him as a savior that would go after the gay sinners (it's forgotten now, but Alabama was refusing marriage license and had a huge scandal trying to jail someone for approving a same sex marriage).
Liberals and the mainstream media just don't get it and I'm convinced after 4 years, they don't want to get it. They truly believe the myth of the "good Republican", so they focused on how mean and hateful Trump was, despite that being the reason conservatives fell in love with him. He says the quiet parts out loud. He don't use the same coded language that previous Republicans would use. Libs have basically lived in a fantasy land since Obama was elected and they thought racism and bigotry just magically went away until Trump came along and made it magically return.
The more desperate and insecure people are the easier it is for them to hate each other based on group identifiers. Rs and Ds drive everyone into precarious poverty then act shocked when racism, sexism, homophobia etc magically sprout up. What the hell were they expecting.
I think there is a pretty large crossover in the religious extremists and Q-types.
Considering Q people are like 10% of the population and growing....
according to this poll 16% of Americans believe “a group of Satan-worshipping elites who run a child sex ring are trying to control our politics and media”
The psychos are very advanced in taking over in my opinion. The really old ghouls will die off as the somewhat less old ghouls get absorbed into the dem party. The real question is if this shift can open the gates for a new party to rise.
it will survive as long as the dems continue to drag it's corpse in the name of bipartisanship
They'll find a way. People have been writing the obituary for the Republican party for a long time and none of it has come to fruition. They have institutional advantages, the largest of which is that their "opponent" is not sincerely trying to win.
I mean, I would like to ask the same question about the Democrats (substitute old guys and Q'ers with backstabbing neoliberal cronies and russiagaters), but somehow these fucking ghouls continue to lurch along
Isn't there also just a whole bunch of middle aged people who just vote R because they hate D?
Where else the freaks gonna go if they genuinely believe the Democrats are evil Satanist Communist pedophiles who want kill their families
Never count these fuckers out. Never. The Capitol riot was bad and is causing a real schism in their party, but don't even pretend like they're done for.
Trump was a hair's distance from winning a second term two months ago. The number of popular votes it would have taken to swing the Electoral College was smaller than it was in 2016. Biden will almost certainly be an ineffective president since he's already built cabinet of yes-men and neoliberal ghouls. The economy is back to spiraling with jobs numbers declining again in an unemployment crisis. All of the conditions for a hugely unpopular Biden presidency leading to a GOP resurgence are there. Doesn't mean Biden has to be a lousy president, just that he likely will be.
Both parties have gigantic fundraising and advertising networks. Both parties have tons of megadonors and grassroots donors. The GOP's electoral college advantage is only going to get bigger (unless Texas actually goes blue). The golden rule that elections are basically just decided by how good the economy is has not been broken. If Biden is doing a shitty job and the GOP runs the My Pillow Guy for President, America will vote for the My Pillow Guy.
