What is the future of the Republican Party?

Archy1221 said:
DADE: Well, they are. The interest groups are trying to fill in the void of information, where to get the IDs, what kind of documents you need to get them when you show up so you're not caught unawares.

As far as the states go, they are issuing non-driver voter IDs. Many of them are for free, but the problem is, when you go to Department of Motor Vehicle offices, the waits are very long, they're time consuming. The governor of Tennessee, who's a Republican, by the way - he has expressed concern about the average wait times there, which extend well beyond an hour. And if you're talking about thousands of elderly, in particular, they can't wait that long.

So states are providing a solution.  Wait times can always be shorter, but I’m sure these folks spend much longer waiting in their respective doctor offices on a monthly basis, and this is a one time only wait.  
 
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That's just the wait times.  How are they issuing IDs to people who don't have them and can't get them?

 
It's funny, because Republican voters have become such trump cultists that they wouldn't care if trump flat-out told them their donation was lining his pockets. They'd still write him checks.

At this point it's not even dishonest. It's just his brand.


 
Notre Dame Joe said:
What is conservatism to you?  The liberalism of 20 years ago?
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Fiscal responsibility, State's rights, Constitution, Building an economic environment that lets business's grow and builds the middle class, as low of taxes as possible while still remaining fiscally responsible.  

And...doing that in a way that is inclusive and doesn't disenfranchise certain segments of the public.  If a policy does, figure out how to fix it.

We have seen just about none of that in the last 4 years even though his worshipers believe him.

What is touted as CONSERVATIVE today:

Love Trump (don't even question it)

Love and don't even question the military and how much we spend on it

Love your guns because God and Guns are awesome

Stand for the flag because...God Damnit....this is 'merica and I'm more patriotic than you

Pull your self up with your God Damn boot straps.

Immigrants are disease infected horrible rapists.

Everything with a D behind it is evil and they hate 'merica.  

 
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BigRedBuster said:
Fiscal responsibility, State's rights, Constitution, Building an economic environment that lets business's grow and builds the middle class, as low of taxes as possible while still remaining fiscally responsible.  
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So Trump stands for conservatism minus fiscal responsibility, which Rs abandoned back when Trump was a democrat.  And Trump's roaring hot economy didn't leave anyone behind, unlike the previous generation.  If you were a woke white collar elite in 2017 you prospered greatly.  The difference was the blue collar Americans also had good times. Whereas under the Clintons&Bushes the working class was economically disenfranchised and socially disparaged.  

 
Notre Dame Joe said:
So Trump stands for conservatism minus fiscal responsibility, which Rs abandoned back when Trump was a democrat.  And Trump's roaring hot economy didn't leave anyone behind, unlike the previous generation.  If you were a woke white collar elite in 2017 you prospered greatly.  The difference was the blue collar Americans also had good times. Whereas under the Clintons&Bushes the working class was economically disenfranchised and socially disparaged.  
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Ummm....no.  Not even close.  

 
So this is it?  This is the future of the Republican Party?  Threaten every Republican who stands for the rule of law, the will of the voters, and the Constitution with being primaried?  Primaried for an ideology that poked the bear of voter turnout?

What an idiotic strategy. Trumpism lost the House, the Senate, and the Presidency in four years and this party is still running scared of a bully.

 
Notre Dame Joe said:
And Trump's roaring hot economy didn't leave anyone behind, unlike the previous generation.  If you were a woke white collar elite in 2017 you prospered greatly.  The difference was the blue collar Americans also had good times.
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This is a bald-faced lie. Wages have been stagnant since the Bush/Republican-fueled Great Recession that Obama had to dig us out of. Obama's roaring hot economy was the only thing trump didn't try to destroy, only because he felt it directly benefited him. 

If a one-time $1,200 stimulus check appears as a towering spike on this chart, you know wages have been stagnant.

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Scarlet said:
So this is it?  This is the future of the Republican Party?  Threaten every Republican who stands for the rule of law, the will of the voters, and the Constitution with being primaried?  Primaried for an ideology that poked the bear of voter turnout?

What an idiotic strategy. Trumpism lost the House, the Senate, and the Presidency in four years and this party is still running scared of a bully.
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Absolutely, yes. The cult firmly believes they will primary everyone who didn't support the bad orange man. 

For example:


EDIT - apparently the harassment didn't stop once the plane left the ground...


 
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The short-term future of the Republican party may involve quite a bit of divestiture. What will be interesting is who ends up with the larger slice of pie.  


 
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