Continued Trump Administration Fallout

[Dill]

(05-25-2021, 10:25 PM)samhain Wrote: It's an all-around shitty deal for the GOP.  Trump's authoritarian streak was cute when he was smashing the libz on social media.  It's a little less fun when he's out of power and still lording his base and their votes over the party that probably wants to move on from him.  

The Republican Party has essentially told anyone that's conservative yet non-Trump-scrote-licker that they have no place in the tent.  You do not win elections by shrinking your tent and excluding voters.  It's actually the opposite of how it works.  

In the end, the choice to make an ousted moron the golden calf for the party to bow to might be the undoing of the party for a long time.  His base still froths at the mouth for him to speechify and smash some libz, to be sure.  However, there are still just as many if not more who hate his guts and will work just as hard to make sure nothing like a Trump presidency ever happens again.

Well, while Trump is out of the limelight, it looks like some gradual erosion of Republican support is occurring. 

In part because IN the limelight is Marjorie Greene and Matt Gaetz and these crazy recounts--which will apparently force AZ to throw away its polling machines and buy all new ones. The Big Lie still drives millions, enough so this crazy show will move on soon to Michigan and Georgia, where it will likely continue to bear no fruit and continue to shear off support for GOP trying to actually govern.

Forcing people to lie is not as easy at you'd think. People do it to stay in power, but as it becomes ever more blatant, they know they are destroying their credibility with that small number of people whose approval really matters. And with themselves.

ON THE OTHER HAND-- You've got the Republicans running for state offices which would place them in control of the election process in 2022. 
If allowed to do that, I shan't be surprised if all manner of documentable (as apposed to merely rumored) "irregularities" appear. The alternative may not be better--namely that accurate counts show undesired wins, leading to continued claims of voter fraud even with the conspiracy theorists are in charge.

https://www.politico.com/news/2021/05/24/2020-election-republican-official-races-490458