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ThoughtCriminal

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4. Post-Trump, the GOP is going to have a hard time shaking loose

Reply to onetexan (Original post)

Mon Sep 23, 2024, 03:45 PM

Sep 2024

MAGA is all they have and it will tie them to un-popular policies and rhetoric.

The only way to appease the MAGA is to become more racist, sexist, bigoted, and shrill. The Democrats went with this when it shed the Dixiecrats to the Republicans. It cost them - especially in the 80s.

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NYT's Ezra Klein: 'Furious' Trump is panicked as MAGA becomes monster he no longer controls: analyst [View all] onetexan Sep 2024 OP

There Couldn't Be a More-deserving Chump The Roux Comes First Sep 2024 #1

Well, Klein is not wrong, but... hlthe2b Sep 2024 #2

Klein was ok with the way trump was. Looks like Klarkashton Sep 2024 #3

Post-Trump, the GOP is going to have a hard time shaking loose ThoughtCriminal Sep 2024 #4

Hindsight is 20 20. The current GOP needs to go the way of the Whigs & a new moderate conservative party arise from it. onetexan Sep 2024 #5

Kind of like the Roberts court, yeah? Qutzupalotl Sep 2024 #6

Roberts IS the one behind the shenanigans onetexan Sep 2024 #8

The only movement Trump understands Whyisthisstillclose Sep 2024 #7