The Partisan Divide on Issues

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(02-02-2021, 11:52 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(01-31-2021, 10:52 PM)Classic-Xer Wrote:

(01-31-2021, 10:23 PM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(01-31-2021, 06:54 PM)mamabug Wrote: Which, again, is all moot because SCOTUS won't hear either case since HE. WON'T. BE. CONVICTED.

If he isn't convicted, a bunch of Republican senators will have discredited themselves in the general election.  If he is convicted, we will be rid of Trump.  It is worth putting up with a little theater.

The only Republican senators running the risk of being discredited and removed from contention are the five who are directly associated with another Democratic run shit show.

Seems to me that they are mostly discredited already, will lose the primary if they fight Trump, will lose the general election if they don't, and are somehow traveling up (expletive deleted) Creek without a paddle.

It will take a long time for the Republican party to redeem itself of its complicity with the sordid behavior of Donald Trump. Democrats never compromised with Trump's worst deeds, and can repudiate about everything that Trump has done except for appointments to the US Supreme Court, cutting and running from Syria, and of course the mass death from COVID-19. On the latter it is impossible to repudiate death of the deceased so that the dearly-departed can return to life.  

Maybe we will have some conservative barriers to radical reforms that will not work out well, or the inevitable tendency toward local incidences of unchecked  corruption and incompetence. Maybe in the meantime the GOP goes the way of the Federalists and Whigs. We could see the Democratic Party become an unwieldy Big Tent before it divides into some two parties -- something like Christian Democrats and Social Democrats in Germany?