03-14-2021, 11:53 PM
(03-14-2021, 10:53 AM)David Horn Wrote:(03-14-2021, 01:41 AM)pbrower2a Wrote: Trump Boosters - 28%
“they approve of how Mr. Trump did his job, but only a slight majority of them support him being the nominee again, and they are more supportive of the Republican Party than Mr. Trump personally.“
Die-hard Trumpers - 27%
“supporters of the former president who would back him in a hypothetical primary regardless of who else was running but who don’t believe in QAnon conspiracy theories”
Post-Trump GOP - 20%
”they like Mr. Trump but want to see someone else as the party’s nominee.”
Never Trump - 15%
self-explanatory.
Infowars GOP - 10%
69% of them believe in QAnon.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/03/12/us/po...ions-.html
God damn! Only 15% of Republicans take what looks like the sanest position.
To be fair, the Post-Trump GOP is not irrational, but it is treading water looking for a new savior. So give the GOP a 35-65 split. It's still pretty sad.
65% of 50%, figuring that America is split almost evenly between Republicans and Republican-leaners on one side and 50% are Democrats and Democratic-leaners, is 32.5%. in the general election, but it is 65% of the primary election. A Trump acolyte or imitator could easily get the Republican nomination only to get crushed in the general election should President Biden appear as effective and competent. Regional divides could weaken, as much of the political divide is rural-versus-urban with Suburbia splitting almost evenly.
Oddly, the Never-Trump faction of the GOP has more chance of winning a Presidential election if given a chance... but with the 65-35 split within the GOP likely to appear as a resounding endorsement on the way to nomination, the only way in which a Never-Trump nominee makes it to the nomination is by winning winner-take-all states in the primaries against a splintered field -- paradoxically as Trump did in 2016. In the event that a Never-Trumper did get the nomination of the GOP there would be some large dissident wing of the GOP offering a candidacy such as that of Strom Thurmond in 1948 or George Wallace in 1968 that weakens the main Party while showing that Party who is boss.
...To support Donald Trump after January 6 is to reject the rule of law as an essential part of democratic government, to accept political demonization of people who did nothing wrong (a basis of injustice), and to trivialize rational thought essential to problem-solving that is the essence of good government in favor of impulse or command.
The ideal subject of totalitarian rule is not the convinced Nazi or the dedicated Communist but instead the people for whom the distinction between fact and fiction, true and false, no longer exists -- Hannah Arendt.