Trump is like career kryptonite - anything Trump touches, dies.
The GOP made politically suicidal decisions that painted them into a corner, in the decades before Trump. When they noticed they had a cancer, they started smoking instead
During the President's first term - EVERY previous President appealed to the middle. This typically frustrates the extreme base, but it helps the incumbent President win re-election (which nearly always happened).
Trump did not. He ONLY appealed to his base
Because Trump ONLY appealed to his base, and did not even TRY to work the middle - it helped drive the big 2018 mid-term win (which DEMs would have won anyway, but Trump made that GOP loss far worse than it should have been).
As the DEMs picked up a TON of seats in 2018 mid-terms, that pushed out MOST of the MODERATE Republicans in the House. The proportion of Maganutters rapidly increased in House
Then Trump threatened GOP sitting Senators and House Reps. That if they did not side with Trump...
Trump threatened sitting elected Republicans - that if they did not side with Trump, he would PRIMARY them - and then proceeded to do so. Not always succeeding but enough, that almost all in GOP now FEAR Trump (not Romney, Liz Cheney, very few others)
Now the Frankenstein's Monster has truly turned against its master. If GOP don't 'agree' with Trump - he will turn on them.
That would not be so bad, if Trump was an honest true conservative. But Trump is a serial liar & career con artist
Donald Trump delivered over 24,000 lies into the public domain. This is LITERALLY a world record in lying.
And this career serial liar now BULLIES his Republicans to parrot those lies, else Trump will destroy their political careers.
It is 100% certain that THIS message by GOP - a party that supports a terrorist attack on Capitol Hill. A Republican President who sent a mob to HANG a Republican Vice President. A cop killer President - this message is untenable in future elections
Trumpism has to be weeded out
If the GOP had dealt with the Tea Party nutters by 2016 - expelled Gym Jordan and Ted Cruz etc - they would have lost maybe 10% of their support.
Today the MAJORITY of the House are maganutters. It means a SPLIT in the party - and worse... the GOP may not be left alive after it
There is a cancer that is GROWING inside the GOP. It is based on delusional conspiracy theory cultists who believe in a maga god.
It HAS to be cut out. there is no way for the GOP to EVERY heal, unless the cancer is removed
But because the GOP allowed Trump to be identified as the Republican President, he is VERY LIKELY the LAST such political entity. I believe the GOP is so poisoned, that when the conservatives are able to rid their party of maga nutters, they have to REBRAND
I am not predicting it (yet) but saying it is a DISTINCT possibliity that history books will show, Donald Trump was the last Republican President.
A sane conservative party (initially a very weak national party) will re-emerge. That is certain
A sane conservative party will not deny climate change
A sane conservative party will not dictate female choices (abortion)
A sane conservative party is SO inclusive, black & Hispanic voters will feel a STRONG pull to it
A sane conservative party will not cause shame with youth
A sane conservative party will NOT accept racists or sexists
A sane conservative party will stand STRONGLY in SUPPORT of a free press
Maga nutters will hate the sane conservative party MORE than they hate Obama, Hillary, Pelosi or the DEMs
It is likely that the split in the GOP results in 3 parties for America. The Ted Cruz led Maganutters become the Patriot Party with a platform to free the martyr Trump family from its Deep State prisons.
And they'll have maybe 10%-20% of the seats in Congress & a few Senators
The longer the GOP waits in expelling the Tea Party / Freedom Caucus / Maga Nutter / Domestic Terrorists - the more it will hurt. Mitch knows this. Which is why he will drive Trump to be convicted and then forbidden from running for office..
But THAT is not enough. When will we see the GOP expelling Ted Cruz and others? Then we will see the START of the healing process
Let us monitor how it plays out...
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We DON'T want Trump to pardon ANYONE in the current administration or Senate, House, other GOP or NRA or Fox etc. The more Trump pardons the more messy will be the investigations & trials & punishment to follow
BUT Trump WILL PARDON HIMSELF & his kids
This thread is not about 'what we want' Trump to do. It's about what Trump MIGHT actually do. Don't waste your breath responding that you want no pardons or you want the pardons revoked or whatnot
Trump is President, regardless of his Impeachments, he CAN PARDON whoever he wants
Trump can ONLY pardon for FEDERAL CRIMES. Even in those cases, the pardoned WILL BE LIABLE for CIVIL lawsuits.
And Presidential pardons do not absolve legal responsibility from STATE crimes. For example, most who participated in DC riots committed both FEDERAL and STATE crimes
This is the last weekend of the Trump Administration
We are likely to see protests - possibly riots - in various State capitals & possibly DC. They will be REMARKABLY MUTED compared to what the terrorists had hoped for
I am not saying there won't be violence. I say we will win
A key element to a successful terrorist event is surprise. That has been now lost to the wannabe terrorists.
The ability to organize has been disrupted (Twitter, Facebook, Parler etc)
Trump's voice is missing. He fears legal ramifications and issues hostage videos
The LEADERS of the insurrection are in disarray. Many went to the Capitol Riots on 6 January. They're all now being visited by the FBI. 275 already identified, near 100 have already criminal charges. Some worst will be in custody
I wrote an extended analysis of the end to Trumpism and the coming split of the GOP. If you want to read the threads, part 1 is here: the roots to the RACIST core of Trump supporters (Wallace legacy)
Part 2 discusses the Newt Gingrich mistake from the 1990s (yes this first Tweet talks of Sarah Palin, the thread is about Gingrich, read this before you read the Sarah Palin part in part 3)
I mean literally brainwashing. Please see psychological and sociological theories. I mean literally building a cult - that CANNOT FIND THE TRUTH
It is like the Branch Davidians (mass suicide)
Steve Bannon built this cult for Trump
I mean literally brainwashing. MOST OF YOU have relatives or friends who are inside the cult. They cannot be reasoned with. They cannot find the truth. They believe in their brainwashing.
PERFECTLY SANE even intelligent people can be brainwashed. It is not 'stupidity'
Yes MANY of the Trump #cult45 are gullible and some are mentally simple, many are lowly educated. BUT plenty of smart, educated, successful people have fallen into the cult - and like any cult - they cannot get out.
If you learn from the doctor, that you have cancer, that is spreading that cannot be stopped, but must be cut out, the sane thing is to cut out as soon as possible, to remove as little as possible? Right?
I showed you, that the GOP accepted racists into their midst (Wallace). Then they made deliberate decision to abandon fighting for the political center, and embrace extremist views (Newt). Then GOP fell in love with conspiracy theories (Sarah Palin) and locked into a cult (Fox)
All this makes the current GOP a FRINGE party, a natural MINORITY party that cannot win general elections and only can win those elections where the race is artificially in their favor (gerrymandering) or cheating (voter suppression etc).
It was Fox. Fox created a Maga Nation (without that name) and promised their maga god Messiah would come some day. In 2015 when Trump came down that escallator, FOX proclaimed Trump as their dude
Trump didn't even know the lyrics
Fox News was born after Reagan ended the Fairness Doctrine in TV news broadcasts.
Fox was set up from the start to be a PROPAGANDA channel. To give PARTIAL and BIASED news. Not the full picture. They brainwashed 1/3 of American electorate over 3 decades
Long before Trump decided to run, Fox had been building a voter base for an ultra-conservative (and racist) candidate. Who would 'defend America in a war against Christmas' and who would 'build a wall' to keep brown people away etc. A cult of white men who feared a changing world