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What I’m really curious about now is how the GOP are going to position itself wrt Trump and his rhetoric and claims when he’s no longer in office.

by 3np 6y ago

evgen 6y ago
In a sense, this was a bit of a worst-case scenario for the GOP. Trump is out of office and wounded, but not destroyed and so able to try to play kingmaker from the sidelines. A large, centrist portion of the GOP would probably have liked to see the end of Trump, but now they are going to have to wait for his conviction and imprisonment to finally be rid of him. Some will try to claim the mantle of racist-in-chief but Trump is a jealous god and will now allow another to steal focus from him, so I expect some rather petty knife-fights for a year or two while Trump goes through a few state trials but eventually some minimum security prison will finally take the phone out of his tiny hands (or at least force him to hoop it if he wants to tweet...)
- redisman 6y ago
  I think this is the ideal outcome for the GOP elite. They have the senate and SC and the white house is about to stop being a liability to them. They’re thrilled to not pass any legislation for the next X years
  - nojvek 6y ago
    Is it confirmed they have senate majority?
    - evgen 6y ago
      They do not yet have a majority. The Alaska race is still being counted and two Georgia seats are going to run-off. If the Dems win two of those three they control the Senate.
pjc50 6y ago
Who? In six months time people will be denouncing photos where they appear with him as "fake news".
louwrentius 6y ago
Maybe it's not true, but I feel as a whole that basically everything the GOP stands for is 'out of fashion'. I feel that Trump and the current GOP was a last ditch effort to let the old traditions grab control by any means (even illegal or immoral) necessary to kill abortion, put the gays back in the closet, and so on. I can't imagine that younger people, for who things like homosexuality, transsexuality are totally fine, who are not encumbered with religious traditions, can even contemplate voting for that kind of worldview from a bygone era. But maybe I'm wrong.
- amcoastal 6y ago
  40% of young people supported Trump in this election according to exit polls.

What I’m really curious about now is how the GOP are going to position itself wrt Trump and his rhetoric and claims when he’s no longer in office.

by 3np 6y ago

What I’m really curious about now is how the GOP are going to position itself wrt Trump and his rhetoric and claims when he’s no longer in office.

evgen 6y ago

In a sense, this was a bit of a worst-case scenario for the GOP. Trump is out of office and wounded, but not destroyed and so able to try to play kingmaker from the sidelines. A large, centrist portion of the GOP would probably have liked to see the end of Trump, but now they are going to have to wait for his conviction and imprisonment to finally be rid of him. Some will try to claim the mantle of racist-in-chief but Trump is a jealous god and will now allow another to steal focus from him, so I expect some rather petty knife-fights for a year or two while Trump goes through a few state trials but eventually some minimum security prison will finally take the phone out of his tiny hands (or at least force him to hoop it if he wants to tweet...)

redisman 6y ago
I think this is the ideal outcome for the GOP elite. They have the senate and SC and the white house is about to stop being a liability to them. They’re thrilled to not pass any legislation for the next X years
- nojvek 6y ago
  Is it confirmed they have senate majority?
  - evgen 6y ago
    They do not yet have a majority. The Alaska race is still being counted and two Georgia seats are going to run-off. If the Dems win two of those three they control the Senate.

pjc50 6y ago

Who? In six months time people will be denouncing photos where they appear with him as "fake news".

louwrentius 6y ago

Maybe it's not true, but I feel as a whole that basically everything the GOP stands for is 'out of fashion'. I feel that Trump and the current GOP was a last ditch effort to let the old traditions grab control by any means (even illegal or immoral) necessary to kill abortion, put the gays back in the closet, and so on. I can't imagine that younger people, for who things like homosexuality, transsexuality are totally fine, who are not encumbered with religious traditions, can even contemplate voting for that kind of worldview from a bygone era. But maybe I'm wrong.

amcoastal 6y ago
40% of young people supported Trump in this election according to exit polls.