• CleoTheWizard@lemmy.world
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    2 months ago

    The fact that the party was basically forced to run him again just tells me that the republicans are in big trouble after Trump leaves. Their voter base is declining and they don’t have another populist to take his place.

    So their options after this are either to try and get another populist and push trash candidates over the line, which won’t work. Or they can do the right thing and give up on their social positions against minorities and abortion. The outcome of the first option is they lose a lot of elections, the outcome of the second option of changing positions is to split the party. I just don’t know how they move forward when Trump loses.

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      2 months ago

      Their voter base is declining

      This has been true for literally decades and it hasn’t stopped them yet. When you can gerrymander, suppress voters, take advantage of the Electoral College, and pack the Supreme Court with cronies, you don’t really care about demographics.

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        2 months ago

        Well sure, but there is a critical point at which they can’t use those to compensate anymore and that point is already passed them I think. That’s why you’re seeing them try to steal elections, they know there is no legitimate way to win them now. So unless democrats do some really stupid things, they may not have the population to gain the minority of votes they need to keep power.

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          2 months ago

          Quite arguably, they stole the Presidential elections in both 2000 and 2016. 2000 was aided and abetted by the Supreme Court (hence “pack the Supreme Court with cronies”), while 2016 was aided and abetted by Putin and the Russians - at least that shit is new in the Republican playbook.

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        2 months ago

        Gerrymandering is also only so effective. If enough people move or die you’re stuck running a radical right candidate in a newly moderate district.