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Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin

(107,883 posts)
Sat Oct 14, 2017, 09:00 PM Oct 2017

Analysis 5 reasons the GOP wont dump Trump

Last Sunday, Sen. Bob Corker (R-Tenn.) declared President Trump to be childish and dangerous. And not only that: He said almost all of his colleagues agreed. “Look, except for a few people, the vast majority of our caucus understands what we’re dealing with here,” Corker told the New York Times after he labeled the White House an “adult day-care center” and said that Trump could set off World War III.

Six days later, precisely zero Republican senators have added their names to Corker’s criticisms. Why?

Washington Post columnist Michael Gerson has a theory: Cowardice. “More than anything else at this moment,” he writes, “the nation has need of Republican vertebrates.”

But politicians aren’t just reflexive cowards; they are often calculated ones. And there are plenty of reasons we haven’t seen a mass exodus of GOP lawmakers from Trump — if lots of them do indeed agree with Corker.

Here are five non-mutually exclusive possibilities:

1. They still hope — against hope — that Trump will change

2. It’s an unnecessary risk, from a self-preservation standpoint

3. Some have paid the price for it

4. They don’t trust themselves

5. It could destroy the GOP

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/politics/analysis-5-reasons-the-gop-won%e2%80%99t-dump-trump/ar-AAtpW0l?li=BBnb7Kz&ocid=edgsp

It could destroy the GOP if they don't

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Analysis 5 reasons the GOP wont dump Trump (Original Post) Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin Oct 2017 OP
It is destroying the GOP and I hope good Iliyah Oct 2017 #1
Good news, they only need one reason to dump him! L. Coyote Oct 2017 #2
6. Kompromat Exultant Democracy Oct 2017 #3
I think it's mostly No. 2...self-preservation bearsfootball516 Oct 2017 #4

L. Coyote

(51,129 posts)
2. Good news, they only need one reason to dump him!
Sat Oct 14, 2017, 09:32 PM
Oct 2017

Of course, they are a bunch of losers with lower I.Q.'s, and probably feel so stupid or insecure they won't, so it's not their fault ....




Exultant Democracy

(6,594 posts)
3. 6. Kompromat
Sat Oct 14, 2017, 09:39 PM
Oct 2017

We got reports that Ryan and McConnell were just as tainted as trump even before we got the Steel memo.

bearsfootball516

(6,376 posts)
4. I think it's mostly No. 2...self-preservation
Sat Oct 14, 2017, 10:23 PM
Oct 2017

Trump is still popular in the midwest and down south. Any republican politician in a red state that turns on Trump can kiss their political career goodbye, and they know that.

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