04-03-2021, 11:35 AM
(04-03-2021, 08:22 AM)CKwi88 Wrote: Kind of reminds me of George W. Bush's remarks of worrying he will be the last Republican president.
For a party that has tirelessly tried to spin the narrative that the democratic party is going ultra-left and "socialist", it's sad to see the GOP becomes so beholden to the fringe.
The GOP is getting to be a lot like the liberals they hate so much. For decades they've made hay at polls and in fundraising by pointing out how whiny and reactionary the left has been, and in many cases with legitimate reason.
Now we have the right latching on to clowns like Qanon, where every single event that happens publicly is a conspiracy worth getting (sometimes even violently) outraged over. They now have to pander to these morons in their base, forcing them to suspend any belief in reality and leaving them vulnerable to looking even more ridiculous than the liberals they once used for fear-mongering.
The Q-idiots will likely have an even shorter shelf life of credibility than the libs did. They are already the butt of jokes on both sides of the aisle, publicly and privately. As they continue to be humiliated and treated like the clowns they are, it's a foregone conclusion that many of them will fly into violent rages just as the capitol rioters did on the 6th. They will cost the GOP and pose an insurmountable challenge. Even sane GOP legislators will have to pander to these people to win primaries. This will lead to them getting rinsed when they face Democratic opposition in any state that isn't already deep-red. People who actually vote will take the perceived lesser inconvenience of center-left values over raving terrorists doing pretend Dungeons and Dragons style role play as they search for a satanic cabal that doesn't exist.
