08-01-2020, 02:36 AM
(08-01-2020, 01:50 AM)Dill Wrote: Yes to all this.
I would only add that the internal war began before Trump was elected, with the Never Trump movement. It will increase as Trump increasingly mishandles the "Chinese virus" and civil unrest.
They've already turned on Paul Ryan. He's a RINO now. Even Fox News faces his tirades when they get a little out of line. Not a single GOP politician is safe from him or his followers if he decides they've slighted him. If politics have been degraded to "team sports", then his team has a lot more pull among GOP voters than the party of old. Guys that are stalwarts like McConnell and co may not see him as ideal, but they aren't the average Republican voter.
Also, what can't be ignored is that Trumpism worked from an electoral standpoint. That Pandora's box is opened wide. You can win elections with the politics of white grievance and nativism and not much else. There's no chance that the GOP doesn't go back to suckle at that teat again, particularly if they fall on hard times after this election.
