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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsThis would be a good time for 1/2 doz Republican Reps and a few Senators to jump ship.
If they really give a shit about the future of this country.
rampartd
(1,386 posts)except those republicans
Jim__
(14,574 posts)He has to be stopped now! Or, he will be our new dictator.
Hitorque
(175 posts)He's untouchable by any laws of God or man
NameAlreadyTaken
(1,862 posts)Feed him more cheesburgers
doc03
(37,303 posts)J7th we wouldn't be in this mess. If Garland and the SCOTUS had done their job, we wouldn't either.
I don't see any Republicans now with a backbone.
Hitorque
(175 posts)One thing I envy about Republicans is they ALWAYS know when it's time to fall in line or circle the wagons...
OAITW r.2.0
(29,263 posts)I think the entire party is captive now and fearful of the consequences to betray Trump.
JBTaurus83
(44 posts)They are all fascists. We need to stop hoping a Repig will do anything good.
sakabatou
(43,794 posts)Maru Kitteh
(29,491 posts)The GeeOhPee had a real moment to wrest back their party and permanently neutralize this felonious self-fellator when he was impeached for January 6. They did not capitalize.
eppur_se_muova
(38,134 posts)After she objected to Turnip's tariffs (ME relies on natural gas from Canada, and it's damned cold up there right now, and ME has one of the poorest populations among US states) I felt a small glimmer of hope that she might consider becoming an Independent, like Angus King, the junior senator (who also served two terms as Governor). Doesn't look at all likely now.
OAITW r.2.0
(29,263 posts)She's gutless. The polar opposite of another Republican Senator, Margaret Chase Smith.
sheshe2
(89,185 posts)however she is extremely concerned. Very, very concerned and that outweighs her gutlessness.
Silent Type
(8,021 posts)msongs
(70,541 posts)OAITW r.2.0
(29,263 posts)lives. That is our political reality. The criminals are in control.
returnee
(375 posts)OAITW r.2.0
(29,263 posts)There has to be a dozen Republicans in Congress that understand what the Trump Presidency is going to do their families' futures. That can't be this naive....can they?
JustAnotherGen
(34,223 posts)Kat Kay says,"they fear for their lives".
Despicable cowards.
OAITW r.2.0
(29,263 posts)ananda
(31,176 posts)They are deeply, mentally ill, likely beyond help
or redemption.
UTUSN
(73,158 posts)Just enough to keep us on the hook. Different time, vestige of belief in democracy is going fast now.
OAITW r.2.0
(29,263 posts)to take this country where Trump is taking it. Time will tell.
halobeam
(4,908 posts)Not sure how all of them would be disappeared.. idk, power in numbers seems all they got left. And I cant believe either that they all want this direction. Likely more do not, than do.
Its now or never for them, really, if that were the case.
Of course maybe most of them are blackmailed and would be destroyed, rather than disappeared. Isnt that how Putin deals, gets dirt on them?
Guess time could tell, eventually. Who knows.
Eyeball_Kid
(7,604 posts)to do town halls. It's collective action. Millions are screaming for a national movement.
Meowmee
(6,806 posts)Our fate is in our hands now to stop this with whoever will help.
Kid Berwyn
(18,982 posts)The replacements got common sense. Meaning: They're all treasonous.
Perhaps the public can pressure a few, but their real motivation is fear of King Dipshit.
Eyeball_Kid
(7,604 posts)There likely are a half dozen or so Republican members of Congress for which "jumping ship", or at least actively opposing Trump, resonates with their "life script"-- or a sequence of metaphors--and places them in an advantageous position where a "whole-ness" with one's self is possible. In some respects, this sounds like a bunch of hokum, but sometimes odd things drive people to act. You know this: Trump's "decisions" are getting increasingly loopy. And you know that, in restaurants all over New York and DC, Republicans are talking. They are being curt with their phrasing, but they're all saying the same thing: we didn't want all of this to happen. They'll talk to the press in a different way, but when the press isn't around, it's a different story. That's how people are, no matter the political leaning.
stillcool
(33,090 posts)people are people...ya never know. There were Republicans the last time around that changed their tune. I'm sure they're all not totally in the loop, and the earth might be moving under their feet as well.
Irish_Dem
(62,855 posts)Also lose all the bribe money and election rigging.
Jit423
(775 posts)They won't have to worry about primaries for the cult. Dems will vote for them during primaries and during the national elections. They just need to help us save our democracy and nation.
elocs
(23,189 posts)Bettie
(17,630 posts)give a single shit about the future of this country.