The Hill: "Trump's GOP is already dying"

[Pluvious]

This is a most delish and delightful piece

Enjoy

Trump’s GOP is already dying

Lara Trump is nominally co-chair alongside former North Carolina Republican Party Chair Michael Whatley. Both received former President Trump’s endorsement for the role. In practice, the power dynamic is more like when the Roman emperor granted his family a shared consulship with an irrelevant senator. In case any Republican was confused about where true power rested, Trump began her tenure atop the RNC with a sweeping purge of the unfaithful.

Donald Trump’s MAGA ideology can now claim the House Speakership and formal control of the RNC. With Mitch McConnell (R-Ky.) stepping down from his role as Senate minority leader, Trump will likely soon control that post as well.

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Trump’s GOP is a paradox. The former president now enjoys an unprecedented level of control over the Republican national apparatus. He can freely raid the RNC’s dwindling campaign coffers for legal defense money and appoint family members to key positions while personally directing House Republicans’ disastrous investigations into Joe and Hunter Biden. Trump’s total dominance of the Republican Party is a remarkable thing to behold.

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One RNC donor, Peter Henlein, voiced many Republicans’ outrage at the new arrangement in a post on X, formerly Twitter. “After a lifetime of donating to every GOP nominee and multiple down ballot candidates every cycle….I’m out,” Henlein wrote. “I donated to help win elections, not to maintain the lifestyle of a billionaire.”

Much much more...
https://thehill.com/opinion/campaign/4528680-trumps-gop-is-already-dying/

[BootinUp]

1. This is closer to how I read things, than any poll and accompanying story in the NYT. nt

[DemocraticPatriot]

46. Even if *some* of the polls say we are losing right now, it takes MONEY

to turn out voters!!! Not just advertising, but for GOTV operations. The Republican Party in my state of Michigan is BROKE right now, and their big donors in this state are not kicking in so far, have indeed been chased away by the MAGAt wing.

Women and young people carried our party to victory in the 22 midterms in Michigan, by 11 points for the Governor's re-election, and took over the state government for the first time in 40 years! (in the year of the "Red Wave midterm fantasy" )

I don't think those voters are going to stay home in "Rovember," and Democrats have been over-performing in all the special and off-year elections.

We have all that in our favor, to start with---

but with Michigan, Arizona and possibly other state GOP parties in bad financial condition,
and Trump now sucking up ALL of the money from the National GOP,
this is not going to be a "level playing field" for Republicans in 2024!


Wish I could cite a link here, but it was a story on my phone's newsapp--
There is a pro-Biden PAC which is committed to spending $250 million in advertising on this election!

That's more than twice as much money as President Biden and the Trump campaign now have as cash on hand, put together!



I'd rather be US than the Republicans right now,
even if they currently look better in *some* polls---
(and I think that will change before November!)

[2naSalit]

2. It will...

Be best when it's finally dead.

[madamesilverspurs]

9. "be best"

Heh. Well done!

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[calimary]

11. YES-A-ROONY-PIE!!!

I look forward to that day. But I also remain vigilant about what might replace the RNC if and when it finally bites the dust. Somehow better, at long last, or WORSE?

[2naSalit]

13. Too soon to tell.

[Sky Jewels]

33. I'm hoping that demographic changes will make the future of a "reborn" Republican party

shaky at best. The Silent generation was very reliably conservative/Republican (they loved them some Ronnie Raygun), but their voting power is getting to the "almost insignificant" stage as their numbers dwindle drastically (and it wasn't a large generation to begin with). Boomers have already lost a third of their members, and the oldest will hit 80 in less than two years. My generation, Gen X, kinda sucks politically (we old Xers came of age when Reagan got elected, and too many of my peers drink the Kool Aid), but, like the Silent Gen, we are not a large generation, and the Xers born in the '70s seem to be less right wing than the 60s-born Xers. (Yes, these are all sweeping generalities.) Those born after 1980, again, in general, do not seem to buy into propaganda as those born in the early-to-mid 20th century. And, of course, the younger generations are much more educated and much less white and much less religious. They are PISSED OFF about Dobbs, global warming, gun violence, etc., especially the young women, who will outvote the males. So, in the future, good luck to any political party relying solely on pre-1980-born white, rural, non-college, mostly male, practicing Christian voters. It will have a massively uphill battle. There just aren't enough of those types around to maintain anything other than scattered regional power, and they're getting scarcer by the day.

[calimary]

34. I'm hoping you're right!

The dynamics you cite seem to make all kinds of sense. Just this latter-day "invasion of the body snatchers" against a woman's right to rule her own body should be enough. But there's so much more beyond that.

[Pluvious]

3. This toon belongs in this thread...

( from ItsjustMe's Image Dump )

[canetoad]

4. Campaign to buy

Junior and his sqeeze drugs.

[C Moon]

10. Exactly!

[dalton99a]

20. +1

[lindysalsagal]

5. You gotta dance with the zombie that brought ya.

[rubbersole]

6. Purge the disloyal 🐀 rats, Lara!

Don't put up with those radical leftist RHINOs! You are a rising superstar, Lara! Eric loves you! TSF likes your body, Lara! You are so warm and fuzzy, Lara! (Plus, you are so much more beautiful than that bitch Kimberly. And truthfully, Lara, Ivanka doesn't hold a candle to your popularity.)

[OMGWTF]

15. And make sure none of those Icky Nikki Haley supporters are allowed.

[SoFlaBro]

7. I want the MAGA GQP shit killed fucking dead. I hate the fuck out of the whole goddamn turd of a regime.

[Pluvious]

30. But... How do you really feel ? LOL (nt)

[tazkcmo]

41. Personally, I would have added one more "fuck" but you be you!

Righteous rant, SoFloBro!

[bdamomma]

50. Cults

usually don't have a good ending.

[SoFlaBro]

53. I pray to Baby Jesus that they go the way of the Jim Jones cultists. "Please sweet Baby Jesus make it fucking so!"

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

8. Everything Trump touches dies

[CrispyQ]

29. We gave Mitch multiple opportunities to cut the loser lose but he didn't take them.

SMDH

If he had any integrity at all & we know he doesn't, he would retire & denounce the orange shit stain.

[CatWoman]

12. Ray Charles would have seen this coming

I mean, who in the world thought this was a good idea?

[lpbk2713]

14. That message needs to be circulated around.

“I donated to help win elections, not to maintain the lifestyle of a billionaire.”

[Silent3]

16. Sadly, zombies can be dangerous

The remains of the Republican party are still too twitchy for my comfort.

[Renew Deal]

17. There is no doubt that they will run the RNC into the ground.

[BComplex]

56. What worries me is all the oligarchs that are still adding billions to republican wins so they can keep stacking the

courts. Leonard Leo pumped billions into this upcoming election for senators and reps, as did a bunch of other more reclusive billionaires.

[bucolic_frolic]

18. Same old casino milking strategy

Whose casino went bankrupt? When the House always wins?

[dalton99a]

19. "Republicans have built themselves a party whose sole purpose is to appease and gratify Trump."

And Trump is never satisfied.

[tanyev]

42. He reminds me of The Doomsday Machine in the original Star Trek.

[ArkansasDemocrat1]

43. I like the remastered effects, brings it up to date without changing the story

They even substituted digital chronometers for those moments when a visual clock was a plot element. The orbiting effects, well, here... I personally would have wanted the finely detailed weather available from orbit, but still using the original model effect.

[link:|

[AllaN01Bear]

21. its no longer the party of abe , but the party of t,,, and his personal piggy bank.

[lonely bird]

22. True...

That being said, the Party of Lincoln abandoned Black Americans with the end of Reconstruction. White, conservative businessmen in the North wanted to do business with the South and dismantling Reconstruction allowed that to happen.

[BannonsLiver]

23. I wish this was true.

[republianmushroom]

24. It's death can't happen soon enough.

[AZ8theist]

37. "HIS" death can't happen soon enough.......

What is the party supposed to do when Doturd inevitably kicks the bucket? Appoint one of his imbecile spawns as replacement?

Then we're in North Korea territory.........

[republianmushroom]

39. Without the party he is nothing.

[DonCoquixote]

25. no no! NO!

The evil the gop represents was baked into our bones since 1619. Even if every GOP were to vanish into Vapor, the hate and greed and stupidity the GOP represents would find someone to revive it. It is not a matter of stomping out the flames, it is a matter the we have to KEEP stomping!

[Plectranthus]

26. Whatever, they've been saying this for a while now

MAGA is like herpes; it’ll always come back

[liberalla]

48. Oh god! I fear that's an accurate assessment

We need a anti-magat vaccine!

[keithbvadu2]

27. 1+

[Martin Eden]

28. "MAGA Ideology" is whatever serves Dear Leader

This has never been about "Making America Great Again" or helping the deluded fools who vote for Don the Con.

It has always been about the personal interests, lust for wealth & power, and filling a bottomless void within the giant but fragile ego of a sociapathic malignant narcissist -- and those with an agenda riding the coattails of the megalomaniac.

That such a creature exists is not surprising, but his capture of the Republican Party speaks volumes about the degradation its members and voters.

[patphil]

31. Seizing control of the RNC was a stupid move by Trump.

But the temptation to grab RNC cash was irresistible.
This action does massive damage to the RNC and it's fundraising ability,
Peter Henlein probably speaks for a lot of the major donors.
They'll either donate directly to individual campaign PACS, or close their wallets.

Somehow I get the feeling that Trump doesn't have any where near the wealth he claims.
Of course he's going to be broke when those judgments are finally paid.
I would love to see Mar-a-Lago on the block.

[brewens]

51. It was about grabbing cash for himself and to ensure only those willing to eat the peanuts out of Trump's

shit get any money. Prepare to see many republicans sink even lower.

[Blue Owl]

32. The Bride of Gums is pleased

[Orrex]

35. Sure.

The Republican Party has been “on its last legs” for at least the past 40 years, yet they still control the judiciary, many state legislatures, many governorships, and half the congress.

I’ll believe that Trump’s GOP or any GOP is dying when they are a tiny, impotent minority that dole can barely remember.

[Xavier Breath]

36. As a wise man once said:

[wryter2000]

38. I cannot wait for November

I'm not sitting still, though. I'll be making calls and donating what little I can.

But I can't wait for every "pundit" who went on and on about Biden's age and low poll numbers to have to admit they were wrong. Not holding my breath, of course.

[Joinfortmill]

40. GOP in its death throes.

[angrychair]

44. The GOP will fall in line

There is no such thing as a "good" Republican. They are all cowardly sycophants. All this talk of donors backing out is ridiculous. That donor Peter Henlein they quoted will likely get a visit from some "nice" gentleman from the RNC and he will have a sudden change of heart and double his normal contributions. They always fold. Republicans have no morals, ethics or spines.

[ShazzieB]

45. I just wish it would die faster.

I feel like I'm watching a train wreck in slow motion. Just hurry up and die and already, GOP!

[Desert Dog]

47. Naming Rights

Only a matter of time before Trump renames the Republican party.. To a thing they call Trump.

[Hugin]

49. The GOP as we knew it has already gone the way of the whigs.

And by this time next week it will be unrecognizable and irreversible.

What the Democrats need to be doing is thinking about the way ahead in how to operate in a nation where there’s a single democratically organized party versus a hodgepodge of well funded so-called strong men and tyrants.

[Ping Tung]

52. George Washington warned us about forming political parties. He was right.

"However [political parties] may now and then answer popular ends, they are likely in the course of time and things, to become potent engines, by which cunning, ambitious, and unprincipled men will be enabled to subvert the power of the people and to usurp for themselves the reins of government, destroying afterwards ...

We no longer register by party in Washington. It's move in the right direction because we choose between the best candidates instead of party.

[getagrip_already]

54. Dark money will appear where, and when, it is needed

It's always worked that way. Some million/billionaire will step up and fund state infrastructure efforts for voter suppression and gotv.

Don't sit back and gloat just cuz stinky is eating the pie in the cupboard. The oligarchs will grease the skids at the right time.

The rnc hasn't really been a critical player since citizens united. Useful, but not critical.

[uponit7771]

55. Those stolen Republican emails must still be white hot with compromising info