BTRTN: Lost In Transition... We Have Seen the Future of the GOP, and It Is Still Donald Trump

[reggieandlee]

Born to Run the Numbers sees Trump’s atrocious post-election behavior as the weaponization of denial, his way of ensuring that he will continue to own the Republican Party, long after his Presidency ends:

http://www.borntorunthenumbers.com/2020/11/btrtn-lost-in-transition-we-have-seen.html

Excerpts: "Sure, everyone knew that even in defeat, Donald Trump would continue to exercise out-sized influence on the Republican Party. But the combination of asserting that the 2020 election was 'stolen,' the refusal to concede, stonewalling the transition, ignoring the virus, and now the rumor that Trump may announce that he will run again in 2024 is playing to fawning Republican acquiescence and only the most timid of dissent. It sure makes us wonder if there is a 'post' in the 'post-Trump' Republican Party. The soon-to-be former President of the United States has been sheltering-in-place in the White House -- apparently in order to avoid being contaminated by the actual election results -- all while demanding that the Republican sheep bleat, excrete, and retweet his deceit. Dutifully, those sheep are falling in line behind Trump’s demand for herd stupidity...
".. it could be just a big, sloppy loyalty test. Donald Trump is just testing everyone in the party to champion his utterly outrageous claim of election fraud in order to make clear that he still owns these people. .And what exactly does this mean for the dozens of Republicans who were positioning themselves for a “post-Trump” era? Good luck getting any traction when the 'post Trump era' looks exactly like the 'Trump era itself.
"He is the grift that will keep on grifting. He is the party guest who got bombed, slept on the couch, and now demands breakfast. He is at once the ghost of Christmas past, and yet also the ghost of Christmas yet to come. We have seen the future of the Republican Party, and its name is Donald Trump."

[llashram]

1. hoprfully he will wind up

incarcerated and his grifter family shunned and marginalized. And no matter the spin the cowards in the GOP must have their feet held to the fire till the end of time.

[Hortensis]

2. Like Covid, for some slow to let go, and some will never fully recover,

but he will pass and most will move on.

There is the possibility of a more competent but still destructive opportunist replacing him with the RW authoritarian base who've discovered they backed a loser. A new, younger, charismatic strongman might have appeared to fill the void left by Bernie Sanders on the left, but that didn't happen. So both populist populations need new leaders to keep them angry and militant. Best case is that doesn't happen for either and destructive passions calm, worst case they both commit to the same authoritarian strongman. Reportedly Russia was working on the latter, but if so they've failed so far.

[malthaussen]

3. "And I don't want to live there."

To complete the paraphrase.

-- Mal