I can’t stop thinking about how half the voters in America belong to a party where the front runner is facing 78 felonies and could be convicted before the election while the second place guy is running on a record of how racist (slavery actually taught slaves skills) and transphobic (I’m at war with Disney for being LGBTQ friendly) he is.
We can’t even pretend Republicans are a serious party. No meaningful policy initiatives, just cruelty and hate and selfishness masquerading as virtues.
@carnage4life Still cannot believe there isn't one person in the Republican primary who wants to take advantage of the huge, wide-open, "Trump is a dangerous criminal who should never be near levers of power again, but I don't like taxes, foreigners or regulations on oil drilling" lane.
Like a literal zombie could run on that platform and get 30% of the primary vote.
"Still cannot believe there isn't one person in the Republican primary who wants to take advantage of the huge, wide-open, "Trump is a dangerous criminal who should never be near levers of power again, but I don't like taxes, foreigners or regulations on oil drilling" lane.
Like a literal zombie could run on that platform and get 30% of the primary vote."
That one person would be Liz Cheney, and she got voted out.
Chris Christie is doing similar, he is not polling well.
@tob @carnage4life There's two types of Republican voters left:
* People who pay almost no attention and just always vote R out of habit
* People in the Trump cult-of-personality
People in a cult-of-personality aren't going to be out there looking for alternatives. That's also why none of Trump's corruption or crimes will matter at all. And why Trump doesn't need to espouse any particular plans or policies, and the R Party doesn't bother writing a platform document anymore.
@blakeyrat @carnage4life It is only within the spineless ranks of GOP presidential contenders that Trump can appear strong.
And so IMO, the strength of Trump's cult-of-personality hold on the Republican party has never been tested.
No one is willing to actually stand opposed to him. Even people running directly against him pull every. single. punch.
@tob @carnage4life Well the most successful of those trying to "stand opposed" to him are doing it by basically trying to BE him. That's how I see DeSantis' campaign, for example; "exactly like Trump, but maybe a bit less crimes".
I don't know, maybe other people don't see the same thing.
@blakeyrat @carnage4life DeSantis is a great example of someone obviously running to succeed Donald Trump when he bows out of the race.
Which is dumb on a variety of levels. The main one being that Trump's very survival hinges on him winning the Presidency and then pardoning himself.
The man is not dropping out.
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