Why the Republican party is so enthralled to Trump.

[Yavin4]

What else do they have? What big policy agenda are they trying to build a national consensus around?

Cutting taxes? Done. Do they seriously want to run on Jeff Bezos' taxes are too high?

De-Regulation? Most sane corporations are installing their own policies to combat climate change.

Justices on the SCOTUS? Done. They stole three seats.

So what else is there? Without any real policy agenda, why do they even exist?

This is why they have to hook their wagon to Trump. They know that they cannot win elections with their normal, establishment Republican candidates. That's what Obama showed them. Twice.

Without Trump, they're nothing. Sure. They still have their lightly populated red states, and the racist legacy states of the South. But that's not enough. Over the past few presidential cycles, they've lost VA, CO, GA, and AZ. They're losing states more than they're gaining.

They have no choice but to get behind a complete buffoon.

[Just_Vote_Dem]

1. And many of their white supremacist base are elderly,

and the young ones are greatly outnumbered

[Thomas Hurt]

2. It was all in the deluded minds.

For example: Obama's economy was in shambles, until their hero took office and then it took off.

Wash rinse repeat.

Now they will play this game in reverse. Everything is wonderful now, as soon as Biden takes office...the world has gone to hell.

[LuvNewcastle]

3. Trumpy exploits the culture wars, and that's the only

place where Republicans are competitive with Democrats. A lot of people are still pulled one way or another by hot-button issues aggravated by media. They might like Medicare For All, but they still flip when they hear about tearing down statues and defunding police. Trumpy could see how easy it was to lead his followers around by the nose harping on about immigration and such, and he was able to push through a bunch of far RW ideas in the meantime. The trick for us is to keep our promises to the members of the Biden coalition without making the social conservatives bolt. That's going to be walking a fine line, and the GOP are going to try to push us off of it at every turn.

[Kashkakat v.2.0]

4. They stated very clearly decades ago what repub party's goals and intentions were - they want

single party Repub govt in perpetuity (per Karl Rove ) and they want to shrink govt and drown it in a bathtub (per grover norquist I believe). Of course they never said what would fill the power vacuum once the govt was drowned in the bathtub, but by now its pretty clear it would be some combination of oligarchy / plutocracy / kleptocracy

So Trump has served the party pretty well and helped them to further their goals. He served as the diversion while the crooks made off with the loot. Make no mistake, it was a choice the mainstream repub party made. dTrumpf wasnt something that just happened to them. They chose it.

[BlueNProud]

5. Culture Wars all day every day.

That is the agenda.

[Yavin4]

13. In the end, what can they do about it?

What 'cultural war' bill can they pass? Force NFL players not to kneel for the national anthem? Force MGM to re-cast the next James Bond?

This is pretty petty stuff.

[dustyscamp]

6. With Trump they have a President that caters soley to them

They love how he screws the Dems, They love how he is seeminigly untouchable, they want their Hitler

[andym]

7. Trump's way more popular than them with their voters and base in particular

therefore in their thinking to maintain their power they have to kowtow to Trump.

[Thekaspervote]

8. It's a number... 71 million

[roamer65]

9. They love fascism.

[Binkie The Clown]

10. He has a mastery of evil and stupidity that they can only envy and aspire to. nt

[struggle4progress]

11. I'd bet extortion and/or blackmail:

"When you have them by the balls, their hearts and minds will follow"

[keithbvadu2]

12. The GOP has no platform of ideas, policies, goals, or plans. Just cult worship.

The GOP has no platform of ideas, policies, goals, or plans.

Just cult worship.