https://x.com/JoshPower80/status/1713631224323805441?s=20
~half of the Republican base have had their minds fully broken and the rest are happy to play along with the lunacy. The economy is irrelevant, abortion is irrelevant, all that matters is whatever their asshole god tells them to think. We have a mental health crisis in America and no one is talking about it.
It’s even more fundamental. Let’s say you’re a moderate old school fiscal conservative Republican. What’s your coalition if you go pro choice? If you give up that huge single issue voting bloc, you may decrease Dem turnout but you also lose a huge chunk of your base.
The GOP coalition is built on getting people to trade their single issue for a shitty economic deal. Guns, pro life, etc. Sure some of them will stay around for the guns or racism, but they’d lose a lot of them and I don’t see another group they can get to latch on.
So that’s going to force some party realignment on issues at some point.
Yeah there are nowhere near enough of those people and good luck finding a candidate those people will turnout for who also can get anyone not like that to go for them.
Boy, I wish I had your optimism, but from where I”m sitting it looks like history is going to exactly repeat itself from 2015 when @riverman predicted the end of the Republican Party and instead they captured all three branches of government.
My current prediction is D house, R Senate, true toss up for POTUS.
yeah what a dumbass for predicting something wrong in 2015
If Trump wins R’s are keeping the house.
GOP representatives are nothing if not principled.
With a Zeldin vote and a Scalise vote, there are four GOP votes for candidates other than Jordan, so he’s not going to make it unless they change their votes.
Plus a Garcia vote now too, he lost the first ballot. Lol.
Also, who the fuck voted for Lee Zeldin? Was it Lee Zeldin?
2 for Zeldin now!
Rut Roh, another one for McCarthy and Salise, he’s lost 8 so far. McCarthy lost 20 on the first ballot. If he loses more than 20 i think he’s fucked.
Another one for Scalise, up to 9 no’s. So far he’s lost 12 percent of his caucus.
Oh man, I didn’t know this circus show had started again. I guess I have to tune in.
If he has less than 20 no’s i think he gets there, they’re all spineless.
Bleach, still only at 9 with 103 repubs voting. I don’t think he’s going to get to 20 no’s. Speaker Gym Jordan, here we come.