Yea, I’ll believe it when I see the vote tallies on Wednesday Nov 7
Monkey-bone-zone on
Or let the GOP die and shit on its grave.
dancode on
Would be nice if they realized that 4 years ago.
Travelerdude on
Ironic that the only way to save the GOP is to elect a Democrat.
Foundsomething24 on
To save *what?*
The people supposedly attempting to save the GOP are everything wrong with it. They don’t like trump because he isn’t a religious nutter who wants to ban abortion, he wants the party to move on from that issue & they have made it their identity (for grifting purposes). The democrats don’t want the republicans to move on from it because the democrats know that opposing abortion is a losing issue, and are interested in *winning* not fundraising.
flatdanny on
Took them long enough.
Conservatism is a scam to benefit the elites.
Viciouscauliflower21 on
Or alternatively just pulling Dems more to the “center” (the right) until a split is forced. Which is far more likely than the GOP changing
LurksAroundHere on
Never forget they were the ones who lead to Trump and MAGA. The rats may be jumping ship now that he’s become a sinking burden and taking refuge on the S.S. Democrat, but make no mistake they’re going to be rebuilding their own boat once the orange emperor kicks the bucket. They’ll just make sure to patch up the holes they forgot to this round (by getting a smarter figurehead that doesn’t say the quiet parts out loud) and get right back to ripping away rights and cutting taxes for the rich/corporations, just like they’ve always done for decades.
cern1987 on
Gonna need more than that
mfc90125 on
The only way that they truly #DumpTrump is to do what they should have done in 2020: publicly condemn him, distance themselves from Trump and stop supporting him in any way. Until this break is made, until the voters see that even his own party won’t support him, Trump will continue to threat democracy and the people he’s swearing to represent.
It will be tough for R’s to do, but we must put all of this behind us. I doubt a single R who supports him would do that, but as we’ve seen in this election so far, anything can happen.
EyeOfTheTiger77 on
GOP has made its bed. In my opinion, anyone who saw 2016-2020 and *still* supports Trump is forever unclean.
I can never support any politician who backed Trump in 2020 or 2024. That’s my litmus test.
chillywanton on
Have at it establishment-GOP. You need to clean house if you ever want to have a party again.
Ok-Possibility-923 on
Best case scenario is dems became the moderate/corporate party (which they already are), and a viable left wing party emerges. Let’s shift the Overton window back to the left.
Tron_Passant on
The GOP is already dead. They let Trump subsume and suffocate it. They aren’t getting it back.
The most likely path forward is a party split into some Old Guard Republicanism and the new wave MAGA party. Neither will be able to control a federal branch on their own, but they can probably claim enough seats to stifle Democrats and exert influence at the state level.
After a few cycles of that, we might see the left do something similar with a growing progressive wing. Something to watch over the next 20 years.
tamadrum32 on
I still don’t trust the GOP, but I’ll welcome their votes if it means getting rid of Trump
onceinawhile222 on
Please let there be more Republicans with patriotism! Don’t say it’s too late or they are just trying to save their skins. They have joined us at the gate against the hordes. Thank them and welcome their help!👏👏👏
xtopherpaul on
The GOP should be left to rot from the inside out. They all put in with Trump and were happy to jump on the band wagon. Rats on a sinking ship don’t deserve applause
neuroid99 on
Wow, if they team up with the Lincoln Project guys, the anti-Trump Republicans could number in the dozens!
AnonAmbientLight on
Welcome to the Resistance.
Although I should note, the GOP is dead. That ain’t coming back.
rodentmaster on
They all approve of his actions. They just don’t like the PR negative response. They want the actions to be completed, they NEED to push through their corruption. This is all performative. They aren’t feeling guilty or anything. They just don’t like the negative public opinion trump now has.
boot2skull on
The people who supported him don’t go away after he loses. The GOP has shown their hand. They will want that support in the future and will rely on dogwhistles to get it.
Equivalent-Excuse-80 on
You know what would save the GOP? Adopting more popular policy
Proinsias37 on
I guess better late than never, but… a little fucking late, isn’t it? Also they wouldn’t be saying shit if they thought they were going to win.
Vallkyrie on
You’re gonna need to purge more than trump to save your shithole of a party. It’s rotten to the core. They all want the same end results, they’re just mad that His Marmalade Malignancy is too on the nose with his rants.
hooch on
Already lost one Presidential election. And another one looking grim for them. Not to mention the midterm blue waves.
I’d say I’m surprised they didn’t figure this out earlier, but these people aren’t the sharpest tools in the shed.
LuccaJolyne on
The only way any party can be truly saved is to change the system such that unacceptable behavior is truly forbidden. The GOP has been rotten for far longer than Trump has been a contender.
whatlineisitanyway on
The only Republican that could make any difference at all won’t endorse Harris unfortunately. Bush needs to step up and tell the American people Trump is unfit for office.
The only way the current MAGAt republican party will 💀is for a landslide blue vote from top to bottom of the ballot. Register and check your registration at vote.gov & vote on Roevember 5th!
darfMargus on
Trump is the embodiment of what the GOP has been fomenting for 70+ years.
They wanna go back to dogwhistles instead of open racism, sexism, bigotry. Don’t let them.
The ugly stain of fascism on the GOP can never be removed.
Vann_Accessible on
Please purge Ted Cruz as well.
We really need a majority in the Senate to make meaningful change.
psdpro7 on
If any classic GOP folks think Trump is the only problem, they haven’t been paying attention *at all*.
ElDub73 on
Translation: now they see they’re going to lose and lose badly.
melikecheese333 on
Imagine having your head so far up your ass you want to vote for Trump again. Wild.
woodyarmadillo11 on
These people are just trying to abandon ship at the last minute. They know Trump is not going to win and their only chance of a future political career is to abandon the MAGA movement. This choice has been obvious for years. Flipping now does not make you a good person.
Still, I’m happy to have them. The more we can get the better.
LittleSeneca on
I’m a John McCain small government style conservative. I no longer call myself a republican because of Trump. I am voting for Kamala Harris. The republican party of Lincoln is dead and buried. Has been for a long time too.
hamsterfolly on
But it was too late, for the MAGA was already in the room with the Republicans. The Republican Party needs to go
Anyweyr on
They can’t save it. Their voters WANT Trump. They’ve been brainwashed for years to only respond to Trump specifically, it doesn’t fully translate to supporting the “Republican” platform. The party can break up maybe, and the sane sociopaths reconstitute into a new conservative party, but I think Trump and his family now have a death-grip on the GOP. You’re not going back.
shed1 on
Trump is a symptom. The GOP is the disease.
vacuous_comment on
It is not the only way. You have had plenty of chances before now to take action and Lindsay Graham knew in 2016 where this would lead.
Drop_Disculpa on
I don’t really see a viable way for the GOP to disavow MAGA, and “move on”. They will always have extremists that can win elections, look at people like MTG, and Boebert- there are MAGA districts, and whole regions of the country that will vote that way. The primary system lets them eliminate any moderate candidates, a new leader will emerge for MAGA, perhaps not as popular as Trump, but when he dies his shoes will be filled. The new leader will do exactly the same things as Trump to control the party.
lastburn138 on
Honestly, any Republican that isn’t full MAGA needs to wake up and get with the rest of us to save their party and the country.
mastaace12345 on
Why save the GOP? Fuck the GOP, they can rot.
Global_Permission749 on
To be clear, this isn’t because they disagree with Trump or the MAGA movement. It’s because they think he’s lost his mojo and is too open about their plans to end democracy in the US.
JALLways on
Can’t be saved. You know what they say about reputations. Takes a lifetime to build one, only 5 minutes to destroy one. No one will be able to trust the Republucan party for a long, long time after all the shit they’ve pulled.
spartys15 on
This is year 2024, what you should be asking is why do we still have these same problems every 4 years? Because that’s what they want!
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Yea, I’ll believe it when I see the vote tallies on Wednesday Nov 7
Or let the GOP die and shit on its grave.
Would be nice if they realized that 4 years ago.
Ironic that the only way to save the GOP is to elect a Democrat.
To save *what?*
The people supposedly attempting to save the GOP are everything wrong with it. They don’t like trump because he isn’t a religious nutter who wants to ban abortion, he wants the party to move on from that issue & they have made it their identity (for grifting purposes). The democrats don’t want the republicans to move on from it because the democrats know that opposing abortion is a losing issue, and are interested in *winning* not fundraising.
Took them long enough.
Conservatism is a scam to benefit the elites.
Or alternatively just pulling Dems more to the “center” (the right) until a split is forced. Which is far more likely than the GOP changing
Never forget they were the ones who lead to Trump and MAGA. The rats may be jumping ship now that he’s become a sinking burden and taking refuge on the S.S. Democrat, but make no mistake they’re going to be rebuilding their own boat once the orange emperor kicks the bucket. They’ll just make sure to patch up the holes they forgot to this round (by getting a smarter figurehead that doesn’t say the quiet parts out loud) and get right back to ripping away rights and cutting taxes for the rich/corporations, just like they’ve always done for decades.
Gonna need more than that
The only way that they truly #DumpTrump is to do what they should have done in 2020: publicly condemn him, distance themselves from Trump and stop supporting him in any way. Until this break is made, until the voters see that even his own party won’t support him, Trump will continue to threat democracy and the people he’s swearing to represent.
It will be tough for R’s to do, but we must put all of this behind us. I doubt a single R who supports him would do that, but as we’ve seen in this election so far, anything can happen.
GOP has made its bed. In my opinion, anyone who saw 2016-2020 and *still* supports Trump is forever unclean.
I can never support any politician who backed Trump in 2020 or 2024. That’s my litmus test.
Have at it establishment-GOP. You need to clean house if you ever want to have a party again.
Best case scenario is dems became the moderate/corporate party (which they already are), and a viable left wing party emerges. Let’s shift the Overton window back to the left.
The GOP is already dead. They let Trump subsume and suffocate it. They aren’t getting it back.
The most likely path forward is a party split into some Old Guard Republicanism and the new wave MAGA party. Neither will be able to control a federal branch on their own, but they can probably claim enough seats to stifle Democrats and exert influence at the state level.
After a few cycles of that, we might see the left do something similar with a growing progressive wing. Something to watch over the next 20 years.
I still don’t trust the GOP, but I’ll welcome their votes if it means getting rid of Trump
Please let there be more Republicans with patriotism! Don’t say it’s too late or they are just trying to save their skins. They have joined us at the gate against the hordes. Thank them and welcome their help!👏👏👏
The GOP should be left to rot from the inside out. They all put in with Trump and were happy to jump on the band wagon. Rats on a sinking ship don’t deserve applause
Wow, if they team up with the Lincoln Project guys, the anti-Trump Republicans could number in the dozens!
Welcome to the Resistance.
Although I should note, the GOP is dead. That ain’t coming back.
They all approve of his actions. They just don’t like the PR negative response. They want the actions to be completed, they NEED to push through their corruption. This is all performative. They aren’t feeling guilty or anything. They just don’t like the negative public opinion trump now has.
The people who supported him don’t go away after he loses. The GOP has shown their hand. They will want that support in the future and will rely on dogwhistles to get it.
You know what would save the GOP? Adopting more popular policy
I guess better late than never, but… a little fucking late, isn’t it? Also they wouldn’t be saying shit if they thought they were going to win.
You’re gonna need to purge more than trump to save your shithole of a party. It’s rotten to the core. They all want the same end results, they’re just mad that His Marmalade Malignancy is too on the nose with his rants.
Already lost one Presidential election. And another one looking grim for them. Not to mention the midterm blue waves.
I’d say I’m surprised they didn’t figure this out earlier, but these people aren’t the sharpest tools in the shed.
The only way any party can be truly saved is to change the system such that unacceptable behavior is truly forbidden. The GOP has been rotten for far longer than Trump has been a contender.
The only Republican that could make any difference at all won’t endorse Harris unfortunately. Bush needs to step up and tell the American people Trump is unfit for office.
Never Forget
https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=SexmfU6b1ik
The only way the current MAGAt republican party will 💀is for a landslide blue vote from top to bottom of the ballot. Register and check your registration at vote.gov & vote on Roevember 5th!
Trump is the embodiment of what the GOP has been fomenting for 70+ years.
They wanna go back to dogwhistles instead of open racism, sexism, bigotry. Don’t let them.
The ugly stain of fascism on the GOP can never be removed.
Please purge Ted Cruz as well.
We really need a majority in the Senate to make meaningful change.
If any classic GOP folks think Trump is the only problem, they haven’t been paying attention *at all*.
Translation: now they see they’re going to lose and lose badly.
Imagine having your head so far up your ass you want to vote for Trump again. Wild.
These people are just trying to abandon ship at the last minute. They know Trump is not going to win and their only chance of a future political career is to abandon the MAGA movement. This choice has been obvious for years. Flipping now does not make you a good person.
Still, I’m happy to have them. The more we can get the better.
I’m a John McCain small government style conservative. I no longer call myself a republican because of Trump. I am voting for Kamala Harris. The republican party of Lincoln is dead and buried. Has been for a long time too.
But it was too late, for the MAGA was already in the room with the Republicans. The Republican Party needs to go
They can’t save it. Their voters WANT Trump. They’ve been brainwashed for years to only respond to Trump specifically, it doesn’t fully translate to supporting the “Republican” platform. The party can break up maybe, and the sane sociopaths reconstitute into a new conservative party, but I think Trump and his family now have a death-grip on the GOP. You’re not going back.
Trump is a symptom. The GOP is the disease.
It is not the only way. You have had plenty of chances before now to take action and Lindsay Graham knew in 2016 where this would lead.
I don’t really see a viable way for the GOP to disavow MAGA, and “move on”. They will always have extremists that can win elections, look at people like MTG, and Boebert- there are MAGA districts, and whole regions of the country that will vote that way. The primary system lets them eliminate any moderate candidates, a new leader will emerge for MAGA, perhaps not as popular as Trump, but when he dies his shoes will be filled. The new leader will do exactly the same things as Trump to control the party.
Honestly, any Republican that isn’t full MAGA needs to wake up and get with the rest of us to save their party and the country.
Why save the GOP? Fuck the GOP, they can rot.
To be clear, this isn’t because they disagree with Trump or the MAGA movement. It’s because they think he’s lost his mojo and is too open about their plans to end democracy in the US.
Can’t be saved. You know what they say about reputations. Takes a lifetime to build one, only 5 minutes to destroy one. No one will be able to trust the Republucan party for a long, long time after all the shit they’ve pulled.
This is year 2024, what you should be asking is why do we still have these same problems every 4 years? Because that’s what they want!