The GOP intends to grab power through rigging, not by winning people over. Voter suppression, voter intimidation, threats to state officials, new laws that give states the ability to toss votes. It was never about winning, it’s about stealing — with or without Trump.
Facile debates about GOP “needing” Trump are dangerously ignorant of the main threat, which is structural rigging through new voter suppression laws. GOP would not bother with these laws if Trump had mass appeal OR if they were able to win voters over. They’re not even trying.
The GOP goal is permanent tyranny of the minority. Popular will doesn’t matter for that goal. Actual vote tallies don’t matter. Appealing to voters is incidental; GOP voters are seen as dupes and pawns.

Impunity is the prize of tyranny of the minority, and it’s already here.
Dems could end this by killing the filibuster and passing voting rights protection laws. Their lack of interest in doing so — their preemptive surrender — should be examined as closely as the GOP’s open destruction of democracy. Why is Dem leadership making it easy?

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