Rats Fleeing the Sinking Ship

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(01-08-2021, 01:29 PM)Sociopathicsteelerfan Wrote: You misunderstand.  The attitudes and beliefs won't change, but Trump is a nonviable entity at this point.  Emulating him is as well.  The GOP would flat out prohibit him from being in their primary henceforth.  That's what I meant in that regard.  The voters will remain the voters, but they won't have Trump, or a Trump clone, to vote for.

I see why they might not have Trump. Maybe he is done, I don't know, I've learned to be careful about that prediction. I do not see why they might not have a Trump clone though. That only differs from Trump by not being so awfully clumsy.

When you have a 45% number of party voters approving of a Capitol storm, then why would any Trump clone be a non-viable entity. That is the 55% party voter's opinion maybe, and the opinion of non-party voters, but the 45% voting power bloc within the party would still remain, and so would the GOP members going after their vote by pandering to their ideas. I don't see how a slightly smarter Trump clone would get banned from the primary, in fact I see such a person win any primary easily, just like Trump did. And to me and many, Trump appeared to be a non-viable entity back then too. This is tough to claim with certainty.

But just for thought, if Don jr. or that Hawley guy (that is the one I'm eyeing, but whatever) were in a GOP primary at this very moment in time for whatever reason, you think the GOP electorate would thoroughly rebuff them?