Hasnt the GOP had enough?

[struggle4progress]

By Jennifer Rubin
May 12 at 10:15 AM

... The 2016 election demonstrated that the party .. would accept a thoughtless, entirely unscrupulous leader for the sake of holding power ... En masse, most Republicans .. declared willingness to defend ignorance, bigotry, dishonesty and ineptitude on the chance that they’d get a top marginal tax rate of 28 percent. The calculation .. seems shockingly small-minded and tribalistic .. One marvels at other trades they’d make ...

Republican Party identification has begun requiring intellectual vacuity. One has to be free from shame to agree that it’s no big deal when Trump confesses he fired former FBI director James B. Comey because he decided Russian interference in the election was “just a made-up story.” A slew of FBI agents is now investigating the “made-up story,” the entire intelligence community verifies it and members of both parties acknowledge that it occurred. To go along with such utterances means condoning Trump’s inability to accept reality .. and refusing to concede that pressuring and then firing the FBI director must be impeachable, if not criminal, conduct ...

Our incredulity does not concern Trump’s buffoonish performances. We’re not surprised in the least that the president thinks he’s entitled to shut down an investigation if he doesn’t like the way his political opponents are utilizing evidence to attack him ...

We’re hoping that the dam breaks quickly, before more harm comes to the republic. The GOP, however, may be irreparably broken.

https://www.washingtonpost.com/blogs/right-turn/wp/2017/05/12/trumps-tapes-tweet-is-too-much-hasnt-the-gop-had-enough/?utm_term=.2f5735093943

[PSPS]

1. Trump will sign their bills, so they will protect him under any circumstances.

[chowder66]

2. They have long been irreparably broken. Their only course of action is to work with

the democrats if they want to keep even the lowest amount of dignity imo.

[uponit7771]

3. Not until the Red Don gets into the mid teens to low 20s steady, ... his base is still sKrong

[dalton99a]

4. Dunno. The GOP is like a bunch of fucking zombies that keep coming back from the graveyard

[MADem]

5. They're grieving, poor dears.

Let me whip this out



just in case someone doesn't get my sense of humor.


They're all processing the denial, anger, bargaining, and depression aspects of their grief process, but I don't think very many of them have come to the acceptance piece of this mess. When they do, there will be a slight tremor coming from DC that will be felt across the land, as they all sigh heavily, assess their complicity, and some of them shit their pants in terror, knowing that the gravy train is coming to a sharp halt.

[JHB]

6. It takes a long time for the GOP's standard tactic to wear thin...

They're well practiced at simply brazening it out. It''s worked well for them for decades. Hard to tell when enough of them will figure it's past time to shift gears.

[PsychoBabble]

7. "The GOP, however, may be irreparably broken."

This is my deep concern ... that their ideology, and need for power above all else, has taken them down a dark path of no return.

You could see this in the last two cycles in failings, where their recovery plan was, "we just need to MESSAGE better." No sense that their POSITIONS or POLICIES were wrong.

[gademocrat7]

8. A party of greed and corruption.

[Xolodno]

9. Nope. They chained themselves to a wieght and Dump tossed it...

...into the ocean.

They courted the TEA Party and gerrymandered into safe districts rather than accept that the country was changing. While at the same time, throwing moderate GOP's under the buss.

Trump still has the nut job wing of his party under him, so they continue to follow him. Remember, its all about self preservation, even if they know sooner or later they are gone, they will choose later.

Even if Trump gets impeached/resigns etc. they will frame it as "he was framed by non loyal staff". Hold out until the next census and role the dice.

[steve2470]

10. not yet

When their electoral math shows they can keep their jobs, THEN...maybe....they will come out against him in some fashion.