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It is my suspicion that Rick Wilson, Steve Schmidt et al are toying with the idea of creating a new party with the possible name of The Lincoln Party. It is because of the Lincoln Project that tells me this. It's only a hunch, but considering how much the Republican Party has devolved into the Trump Party, I can see the Republicans going the way of the Whigs. Your thoughts.
brooklynite
(93,884 posts)(see: Green Party)
Their primary goal is to win back the Republican Party after the Trumpists cash and burn.
SWBTATTReg
(21,859 posts)with their absurd beliefs, no government, no taxes etc. nonsense. IMHO, kind of a morphed Libertarian party.
And the republican party absorbed a lot of these characters into their fold when the Tea Party candidates failed miserably to gain any significant footholds in following elections. They cast their eyes about and saw rump, and propelled him to heights no one thought would happen (and the guts of the republican party was torn apart as a result...they are still trying to recover themselves by splintering off and trying to reestablish the 'original' republican party. Maybe they'll succeed, when the hatred of rump and his idiotic beliefs finally become too much for even these diehard republicans and Tea partiers.
Midnightwalk
(3,131 posts)Sorry replied wrong.
mobeau69
(11,079 posts)Midnightwalk
(3,131 posts)Has been for quite a while, but I dont see how anyone runs as a moderate republican when the party has sold out the country for trump.
Ok I admit I cant see being a republican under any circumstance but thats not the point.
It might be a better strategy to rebrand under a different name than to try to rehabilitate the label republican. Especially if democratic candidates brand them all as having supported trump. Republicans refused to hold him accountable and cannot be trusted.
SoonerPride
(12,286 posts)I think the Rs get wiped out in 2020 and calling oneself a republican in upcoming elections will be a stain of dishonor.
RobertDevereaux
(1,841 posts)Never to rise again.
Bev54
(9,963 posts)were either going to form a new republican party or are waiting to raise the existing party from the ashes and that includes repubs like Jeff Flake. I think originally they thought if they could just get rid of Trump, they could get the old party back but now realize the whole party must be burned to the ground and built from the floor up. They still fail to take their own responsibility for the party being where it is today.
Hortensis
(58,785 posts)whatever the name. Roughly half this nation is wired conservative by nature, then influenced by culture toward strong or moderate (or even extremist as today), and they're not going anywhere.
I hope it's not called the Lincoln Party because it's wildly inappropriate. Lincoln took various positions that are considered conservative today, but he wasn't conservative. Inevitably conservatives would corrupt respect and understanding of who he was to suit themselves and disgrace his name. So unfortunate that there is not one great American conservative leader to model themselves on.