If Trump loses the next election

[Bob Butler 54]

(07-08-2020, 12:35 PM)David Horn Wrote:

(07-08-2020, 05:57 AM)Bob Butler 54 Wrote:

(07-07-2020, 11:45 AM)David Horn Wrote: In some ways, we're in a period similar to the Know Nothing period when the Whigs collapsed and the Republicans emerged, except this time the GOP created the new version in-house.  Assuming that this is a fatal flaw, the GOP may be due for replacement or complete overhaul.  We've seen the replacement model in the past, but it was the distant past.  An overhaul is more likely.

A true overhaul only  works if there is temporary loss of power, and some time to regroup as a "new thing", of sorts.  After Wilson, the Dems regrouped under FDR. After Hoover, the GOP regrouped under Ike.  That may be what's in store this time as well.  After Hoover, the Republicans went 20 years without the White House, and even longer regaining a sold foothold in Congress.  That may be the reason the saner members of that party still cling to Trump... at least for now.

Yah.  By referencing a new bandwagon having to wait a bit, it was delays after Wilson and Hoover that I was thinking of.  I guess there is no saving those on the bandwagon.  They might as well enjoy the ride until they hit the bottom of the cliff.

Of course, while they are enjoying the free fall, a bunch of people will be dying of Coronavirus...

Sadly so.  I do have to wonder whether some of the less nutty Republicans will try a mea culpa as a way to get back into the game.  I don't think it will work, except for some in the the Deep Red states.  Most will chose to bow out, and join the sympathetic private sector.  They're owed for numerous past favors, so that's a given.

Lately it is more common just to distance yourself from Trump through silence.  A few Republicans who are running races coming up are doing that.  Trump is rapidly becoming a liability election wise.  Still, the Republicans as a block voted with Trump in the impeachment.  I don't think silence will be enough, and few are willing to go so far as actually criticize him.  If they do, it will be seen as bending with the wind.