Why Trump’s Lunacy Is Suddenly Raising GOP Fears of Down-Ballot Losses
https://newrepublic.com/article/180320/trumps-lunacy-suddenly-raising-gop-fears-down-ballot-losses
Why Trump’s Lunacy Is Suddenly Raising GOP Fears of Down-Ballot Losses
https://newrepublic.com/article/180320/trumps-lunacy-suddenly-raising-gop-fears-down-ballot-losses
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One could hope lunacy would scare some voters off, but history has shown that some people can’t get enough crazy cooky balls.
They have had a few years to figure this out. That they haven’t is one of few things that give me hope in this timeline.
Can’t win *with* their crazies, and can’t win *without* them.
Why only suddenly?
Lol and they thought the “woke mob” wanted blood. Turns out they didn’t realize it was figurative speech being used, not literal. Not all humans are sociopaths, ya MAGAts.
Slow to recognize literally every trend or pattern ever.
The fact that the GOP may be worried that they won’t be able to cheat enough to get over the down rump trump slump they’ve been dealing with for the past several years is very heartening.
That sucks for them. I wonder what would have happened if they had a few years to clear Trumpism from their party… Well I guess we will never know
Don’t threaten me with a good time.
It’s a little late in the game to just now figure out that jumping all in on the crazy train might be a bad idea.
“I never saw it coming,” remarked Republican Long-Range Planning Director Eric Trump.
“*Suddenly”* I love it. Took ’em long enough to figure it out.
Not just Trump lunacy, but general GQP lunacy… Florida supreme court banned abortions yesterday.. but allowed abortions and weed to go into ballot measures…
So.. quite a few liberal-leaning folks that don’t typically vote will be *heavily incentivized* to get out there in November. For context, Trump won Florida in 2020 by 3.36%. While I’m not going to say that this will “turn florida blue”, it very well might significantly impact the state in the upcoming election. It’s only a shame that their shitstain of a governor isn’t also up for reelection.
I think that based on losses during the mid-terms and again in 2022, they’d be more concerned with Trump’s Endorsements.
Blue Wave to protect democracy and preserve your rights. Let’s get that court rebalanced too, shall we? Vote blue no matter who.
“No one could have known…”
Trump is on the verge of losing the House… IN THE MIDDLE OF THE TERM! Damn right they should be worried.
Though not as worried as the rest of the country should be that Trump is even on the ballot at all.
The difference between Trump and other dictators is that the other dictators had to figure out how to obtain power.
In the Trump era, decades of smarter Republicans rigging the game so that they at worst had a 50/50 shot at the presidency and congress means that any idiot with an R next to their name could slip in to these high value offices. And they did. So in our particular case, our generations fascists are also fucking morons.
Good. Fuck em.
Suddenly? We’ve had five-plus years of Donald Trump destroying the chances of down-ballot Republicans. He’s good at it.
It’s our American duty to keep facists out of power.
Suddenly?!?
SUDDENLY?!?
Jesus H Goddamn Syphilitic Tittyfucking CHRIST with these people!
He is going to grift every cent and leave the downticket races high and dry anyway.
I want to see the GOP get absolutely crushed and sent into irrelevancy. Hope the Dems figure it out and drive that stake home and salt the earth.
In reality, if he wins the makeup of the legislature will make no difference. He will ignore them and the courts as he is demonstrating almost everyday.
If he is elected he wins everything and we lose everything. Well his wealthy donors will be great. They become much more wealthy.
His white “Christian” nationalist who help him to power? Putin demonstrates all the time what’s to become of them. Once in power their power to help him will be perceived as a threat. The brutal autocrat’s playbook.
It doesn’t take a real genius to figure it out and unfortunately the problem CAN cut both ways, it’s just that Democrats seem to drift towards centrism and Republicans tend to drift towards extremism. I suppose it’s just that the GOP base has reached a critical mass of fringe lunatics such that they can dominate primary elections.
Sadly, extremism is very effective in GOP primaries and even sane Republicans need to engage in some crazy talk just to ensure they make it to the general. But moderates, by definition, are going to drift towards whichever candidate is more centrist which puts Republicans in a terrible position. Talk sane and lose the primary, talk crazy and lose the general.
No sympathy from me, though. They made their bed.
Ironic how Trump is the most popular republican since Reagan and his brain is melting in the same way.
The GOP are betting the next 4-6 years on Trump winning the presidency. If Trump loses the election the GOP are likely going to lose a lot of the winable local and down ballot races they are divesting from to fund Trump and his legal bills. The GOP could be out Congress, the Senate, multiple governors races and local state houses while also having lost the Oval Office again. Not only that but Trump if he loses the election is going to be in jail at some point in 2025 which is only going to be bad optics for the GOP.
Also it is only early April and Trump is only going to be increasingly unhinged in 6+ months when people start to pay closer attention to the election and politics (I would say your average undecided or lower turnout voter “checks out” of politics until mid to late September when they really start to make their final decisions).
“Suddenly?”
The GOP has been tanking ever since they embraced the douche’ bag. Lindsey Graham called it perfectly.
Republicans should be very worried about down ballot races in Florida with the abortion and marijuana legalization referenda.
Suddenly? I don’t think so. His brand of lunacy has effectively taken over the GOP and the crazier they are, the harder they fail. Just look at Mastriano in PA. He didn’t stand a chance.
The far right is pushing these losers through the primaries and then getting slapped down by the electorate. It seems it’s a slow learning curve with these ones. You can call a moderate Democrat a raging liberal all you want, it doesn’t make it true. Moderates and independents aren’t buying that bag of bull.
It’s almost like some of them are realizing what idiots they’ve been. But I won’t hold my breath.
They bought the ticket. Now take the fucking ride!
That’s what happens when you are only capable of looking backwards and can’t get out of your bubble.
They would have gotten downballot losses anyway with both Trump and the Republican congress being for
1. cutting social security
2. a national abortion ban
3. repealing the ACA
4. cutting medicare
Truth has consequence. When you label every adverse outcome a “conspiracy” and continue to see loss after loss, you demoralize many people and demobilize the rest.
The good news is that if you think the deep state is winning you probably won’t vote but the bad news is that you will likely see these morons become more violent
He’s been driving the GOP (and the country for that matter) towards the cliff for years. Now some are jumping out of the car but others want to grab the steering wheel? Lol
“If we nominate Trump, we will get destroyed…….and we will deserve it.”
Lindsey Graham, 2016
Suddenly? Pretty sure strategists have been worried since the jump…Trump has the power to take down GOP candidates from coast-to-coast! The price will be “They Democrats stole another one! There’s no way that many GOP candidates lost by that much!”
This may lead to violence in some districts but overall no evidence will be found to support their fantasies…And without even an ‘obstruction enabling’ minority in Congress, perhaps the Democrats can get some good policies enacted before heads turn to the 2026 cycle.
What *SIX* things do you think that Biden and the Democrats should get done?
Leopards are eating lots of faces recently. While I know a lot of people will still vote for this orange traitor and his enablers, his draining of the RNC coffers to fund his legal defenses gives me hope for not just a convincing win, but a “sit down and shut the fuck up” landslide to the entire GOP.
It’s like a Lovecraft antagonist saying “Hey, wait, are we sure this is a good idea?” *after* the mottled grey tentacles start swirling up out of the chalk circle. Far too little, far too late, and you gonna get eaten for sure, Mister Cultist.
Including the fact that it would be pretty hilarious, if it didn’t put us at serious risk of ending the world.
Because he now has control of the purse, and he’s siphoning it all for personal use.
And if he becomes President, that’s what he’ll do to the country.
It’s in the first paragraph –
” They fear having to answer for Trump’s degeneracy and extremism, even as the GOP’s small-donor base is not delivering at the very moment that Trump is siphoning off party money for legal fees. ”
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It’s the money. Always the money. They didn’t have a problem lying when they still got money. Now their face is also getting eaten by leopards as they let Trump grift the whole RNC.
Suddenly?
I am waiting with baited breath for the fall. These elections are going to be an overall bloodbath.
Well its a cult. Unless they want to start a third party. The GOP is the party of trump. Forever and ever.
It’s a cult. Trumpism is the new conservatism. At least now there are no more pretentions about personal freedoms, a strong foreign policy or limited government. That went out the window. The GQP found their lard and saviour. They have made their bed with Trump and allowed him to hijack the RNC. Only when the orange guy is dead and buried will they move on, and even then we can’t be too sure.
“Suddenly?”
He cost them in 2018, 2020, and in almost every special election since.
No matter though…VOTE.
Our Democracy and human rights depends on it!
Well, at this point, with Lara Trump funneling money to 45’s legal expenses as fast as it comes in, the RNC has no money to promote down-ballot candidates. They’re pretty much on their own.
Trump has already dismantled the RNC. He has diverted the maximum amount of any donation, to his personal use to cover his mounting legal bills. This will cause two issues in the following 8 months. Some which have already began.
Down ballot candidates will suffer greatly, due to lack of resources. The RNC has suspended get out the vote, and community involvement campaigns in many states. Local organizers are being fired, or quitting. One of the largest Republican fundraisers, Mitch McConnell has decided to retire. Trump believes all of the Republican party’s money is HIS. I point you to his remarks concerning paying for the transition team when he won in 2016.
*Trump said he didn’t want a presidential transition team. Why did anyone need to plan anything before he actually became president? It’s legally required, said Christie. Trump asked where the money was going to come from to pay for the transition team. Christie explained that Trump could either pay for it himself or take it out of campaign funds. Trump didn’t want to pay for it himself. He didn’t want to take it out of campaign funds, either, but he agreed, grudgingly, that Christie should go ahead and raise a separate fund to pay for his transition team. “But not too much!” he said.*
*By August, 130 people were showing up every day, and hundreds more working part-time, at Trump transition headquarters, on the corner of 17th Street and Pennsylvania Avenue. The first time Trump paid attention to any of this was when he read about it in the newspaper. The story revealed that Trump’s very own transition team had raised several million dollars to pay the staff. The moment he saw it, Trump called Steve Bannon, the chief executive of his campaign, from his office on the 26th floor of Trump Tower, and told him to come immediately to his residence, many floors above. Bannon stepped off the elevator to find Christie seated on a sofa, being hollered at. Trump was apoplectic, yelling:* ***You’re stealing my money! You’re stealing my fucking money! What the fuck is this?***
*Seeing Bannon, Trump turned on him and screamed:* ***Why are you letting him steal my fucking money?*** *Bannon and Christie together set out to explain to Trump federal law. Months before the election, the law said, the nominees of the two major parties were expected to prepare to take control of the government. The government supplied them with office space in downtown DC, along with computers and rubbish bins and so on, but the campaigns paid their people. To which Trump replied*: ***Fuck the law. I don’t give a fuck about the law. I want my fucking money.*** *Bannon and Christie tried to explain that Trump couldn’t have both his money and a transition.*
***Shut it down,*** *said Trump*. ***Shut down the transition****.*