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Miles Archer

(18,837 posts) Wed Dec 26, 2018, 10:08 AM Dec 2018

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Rick Wilson succinctly explains why Republicans aren't going to do one goddamned thing about Trump.

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Good luck. They're strapped in for the crash.

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Time for G.O.P. to Threaten to Fire Trump, my latest column.

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Rick Wilson succinctly explains why Republicans aren't going to do one goddamned thing about Trump. (Original Post) Miles Archer Dec 2018 OP

False subject line. Wilson merely dissents with the article. He never explains why. LonePirate Dec 2018 #1

He's right....GOP is not going to change. kentuck Dec 2018 #2

That's not really much of an explanation oberliner Dec 2018 #3

I'm With You! ProfessorGAC Dec 2018 #4

GOPers start losing Iliyah Dec 2018 #5

Trump is going to suck the RNC dry. Efilroft Sul Dec 2018 #6

With the stock market in free fall, onlyadream Dec 2018 #7

LonePirate

(13,437 posts)

1. False subject line. Wilson merely dissents with the article. He never explains why.

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Wed Dec 26, 2018, 10:26 AM

Dec 2018

Would you mind correcting it?

kentuck

(111,110 posts)

2. He's right....GOP is not going to change.

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Wed Dec 26, 2018, 10:30 AM

Dec 2018

They will have to be defeated. That is the only solution.

oberliner

(58,724 posts)

3. That's not really much of an explanation

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Wed Dec 26, 2018, 10:32 AM

Dec 2018

ProfessorGAC

(65,334 posts)

4. I'm With You!

Reply to oberliner (Reply #3)

Wed Dec 26, 2018, 10:40 AM

Dec 2018

As was mentioned in another article, if the billionaire donors no longer find "it" useful, the source of cash will be a non-issue. They'll still funnel tons of money into the RNC, et al.
The intervention might actually come from those very same big $ donors.

Iliyah

(25,111 posts)

5. GOPers start losing

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Wed Dec 26, 2018, 10:52 AM

Dec 2018

big chunks of money, only then will they try and do something.

Efilroft Sul

(3,586 posts)

6. Trump is going to suck the RNC dry.

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Wed Dec 26, 2018, 11:01 AM

Dec 2018

Trump gears up for 2020 re-election by tightening grip on party

(CNN) — President Donald Trump's political operation will subsume much of the Republican Party's apparatus ahead of 2020's presidential election, party sources tell CNN, merging his already up and running re-election campaign with the Republican National Committee.

https://www.cnn.com/2018/12/18/politics/trump-2020-campaign-rnc/index.html

Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch of people.

onlyadream

(2,168 posts)

7. With the stock market in free fall,

Reply to Miles Archer (Original post)

Wed Dec 26, 2018, 11:25 AM

Dec 2018

The powers that be are probably sitting around a table right now discussing how to get rid of the menace. He’s helping no one at this point, other than Russia and SA.

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