No "mainstream" Republican will ever get the nomination again.

[Yavin4]

The party has become a cult for Trump. They will only support someone just like him, and the most likely person right now is Fox News' Tucker Carlson.

Romney, Ben Sasse, Nikki Haley, Rubio, Hawley, Cotton can all forget the nomination. It'll be Tucker or one of Trump's kids.

[Just_Vote_Dem]

1. That's correct. They've gone totally off the deep end now

No coming back. But this has been their trajectory for the past 40 years.

[griffi94]

2. Ted Nugent

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

28. He's a lock for the pants shitter vote

[rzemanfl]

3. I thought the Republicans were through for a generation after Nixon.

I was wrong. You may be too.

[Yavin4]

6. I don't think that most people thought that at the time.

Nixon was seen as a pariah. He wasn't really conservative enough for the Goldwater wing, and he wasn't hawkish enough for the hawks in the party.

This is different. Far different. We don't have a political party opposing us. We have a personality cult opposing us.

[GoCubsGo]

4. Nikki Haley is part of the cult.

They'd vote for her in a heartbeat. In fact, she's probably next in line.

[NoMoreRepugs]

5. This.

[Yavin4]

9. I don't see it that way.

Haley is a woman of color. She won't be trusted by the cult.

[GoCubsGo]

18. She was elected Governor of South Carolina TWICE by the cult.

They don't consider her a "woman of color." I know this because I live in South Carolina. The cult loves her.

[JI7]

22. She also refused to work with Kelly and some others who wanted her to join them

in trying to get rid of Trump.

[AleksS]

7. The question though is can the culties win the general?

It’ll take two terms just to clean up trumps mess. And the American people are forgetful and fickle. America can’t handle another trump.

[David__77]

8. I don't know about that.

If so, I don’t see them being very successful.

[Azathoth]

10. To be fair, this election is going to reinforce that trend

Despite *everything*, Trump came close to winning.

And in four years, it will be received truth among conservatives that Trump would have won in a landslide if not for covid and "Democrat cheating".

[mvd]

11. Cotton is Trump like. I agree about the rest

Sad that bad is not bad enough in the Repuke Party now.

[Yavin4]

12. The problem with Cotton is that he's a war hawk.

Strangely, the Trump cult is isolationists, and so is Tucker.

[mvd]

16. He's really dumb and fascist like Trump

Trump isn’t exactly for peace but there are slight differences. Cotton just seems as bad as Trump to me.

[Yavin4]

26. Trumpists are pure isolationists

Cotton wants to go to war in Iran. Trumpists only want to fight a war that they can directly benefit from. IOW, if we take Iran's oil, then okay.

[mvd]

27. I agree with that

Both dangerous in their own ways.

[rockfordfile]

23. you got to remember they really don't stand for anything

[PutGramaOnThePhone]

13. Cotton?

Really? He seems crazy enough to stay in contention, and I’m pretty sure he’ll get worse with age.

[Yavin4]

14. He's a war hawk.

Trumpists are isolationists.

[PutGramaOnThePhone]

21. Gotcha...

Saw that your comment got in there before I finished my largely flippant post. So there really are enough of them that don’t want war - at least in the sense of sort of going looking for it? There seems to be plenty of support for military spending on the right. I suppose the support there could be based on wanting protection of them, their clan, and their stuff?

[Yavin4]

24. Unless they can directly benefit from a war, they don't want any part of it.

Like Trump, if we cannot "take the oil", then they don't want to fight it.

[Patterson]

15. Cotton is hard-core and is very dangerous.

[hibbing]

17. Michele Bachmann n/t

[Yavin4]

20. No women.

They won't follow a woman.

[FakeNoose]

19. The Trump kiddies are criminals and traitors (except Barron)

... I don't think they'll be out of prison in time to run for office. Besides that, a criminal record makes them ineligible, or it should anyway.

[lastlib]

25. Well, we'll just have to keep beating them.

Remember the old joke that "the beatings will continue until morale improves"? You get the idea.....