Thread by @tomiahonen

Good discussion via RT @hilde45 & @Teri_Kanefield

This is what happened. Mitt Romney lost in 2012 and did a proper analysis of what went wrong. It is called an autopsy

It found GOP was on wrong track (demographically) and HAD to change. 3 main areas:

Women
Minorities
Youth

So it is like Doctor's visit and Doctor said what the patient HAD to do. Instead, GOP went on a kegger

For 2016 they nominated a PUSSY-GRABBER and RACIST (old white dude also out of line with youth)

For 2016 Trump DAMAGED the GOP on ALL THREE of those demographics

Romney lost the 2012 popular vote & got 47% of the vote

By 2016 Trump did worse, got 46% of popular vote, but by FLUKE of Electoral College, even though Hillary received 3 million more votes than Trump, Trump became President. This gave ILLUSION this mad startegy works for GOP

The REALITY of 2016 was, that Trump had LOST THE POPULAR VOTE just like Romney did. Only a fluke of an obsolete archaic election system HID the TRUTH, that Trump LOST that election (the vote, he was not the CHOICE of American voters)

Trump continued this MAD METHOD into 2018

Trump continued same MAD strategy into 2020

Republicans had RECORD gender gap (women)
RECORD gap in minorities
RECORD gap in YOUTH VOTE

And Trump lost by SEVEN MILLION VOTES in 2020
but continued to push GOP AGAINST the Romney autopsy

Never before has either party let their LOSER ruin the NEXT election

in 1976, Nixon was NOT seen anywhere for Republicans

in 1984, Carter was not seen ANYWHERE near Democrats

But Trump WAS all over the 2022 MIDTERMS. WTF? It was not even a Presidential election

For this 2022 election, Trump kept GOP on that destructive kegger, and produced WORST GENDER GAP in US history. Even white suburban women deserting GOP. Registered Republican women now voted against their party

He turned GOP into a White Uneducated Old Men's Pity Party

And Trump intends to run in 2024

Romney told us, this will only get worse

By 2020 election Trump approval was down to 47%
That was BEFORE Jan 6th. That was before Espionage-A-Lago

In these Midterm elections voters said only 39% supported Trump

For 2024 he's WORSE THAN MONDALE

Romney 2012 autopsy said what GOP has to do:

Appeal to women, minorities & youth

The longer they hold onto Trump, THE WORSE IT GETS for GOP

So I say, of course, I don't mind if GOP self-destruct into perpetuity:

#LetTrumpBeTrump

BTW

How will you know when GOP is on path to sanity?

1. The GOP must fully expell Trump & Trumpism & Magahats

2. GOP has to appeal to women: RESPECT THEIR PRIVACY (= abortion)

3. Kick out racists = KKK = Nazis

4. Respect SCIENCE (esp climate change)

Good luck with that :-)