The 'civil war' for the soul of the GOP is over before it began. Trump won -- again.

[dalton99a]

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2021/01/29/civil-war-soul-of-gop-over-trump-won/

The ‘civil war’ for the soul of the GOP is over before it began. Trump won — again.
By Dana Milbank
January 29, 2021

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Thanks to the cowardice of McCarthy and the perfidy of McConnell, the GOP now comprises two relatively harmonious factions: those who actively sabotage democracy, and those who tacitly condone the sabotage. Trump is gone; Trumpism reigns.

McCarthy recanted his original attempt to hold Trump to account. He never introduced the censure resolution he had said would be “prudent.” Now he says that, while Trump bore “some responsibility,” so did “everybody across this country.” On Thursday, McCarthy made the pilgrimage to Trump’s Mar-a-Lago compound to kiss the ring of the defeated president. They posed, maskless, for a photo, and McCarthy boasted that Trump is “committed to helping elect Republicans.”

Worse, McCarthy decided to embrace Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-Ga.), a QAnon adherent and anti-Semite who, CNN uncovered this week, had “liked” social media comments recommending “a bullet to the head” of House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.), and proposing that FBI agents should be executed for helping the fictional “deep state.”

In the Senate, McConnell has done just as much damage over three weeks, but with trademark deceit in place of McCarthyite cowardice. After his initial criticism of Trump’s actions on Jan. 6, McConnell blocked the impeachment trial from starting in the Senate before Trump left office. And on Tuesday, he voted (with 44 other Republicans) in favor of dismissing the trial as unconstitutional because — wait for it — Trump is already out of office.

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[The Velveteen Ocelot]

1. Soul? If they ever one they sold it a long time ago.

[Thekaspervote]

2. JMHO..this is a fool's errand.

They are already saying they are “poised” to take the house back at midterms. The gerrymandering is an issue granted, but Dems will continue to suffer from shell shock long beyond this week, next month or this year. From that trauma we will continue to have the momentum on our side out of shear terror and fear of reliving 16-20.. in any form

If President Biden is able and he looks on track to deliver relief from the mess the gop left us, this could give us an even better edge.

These are curious political times, nothing is certain. It’s up to us to make sure we retain the house


https://www.rollcall.com/2020/12/01/counting-midterm-chickens-before-they-hatch/

[oasis]

3. GOP can self destruct for all I care. Dems need to allow leadership

to steer our party out of these troubled waters. We can maintain our majority if we work together in harmony.

[badboy67]

4. The GOP has been fighting its version of the American Civil War since it lost the first one.

[Karadeniz]

5. I'm not so sure Trump or Trumpism won. This is not 1860. This is not the same constitution. Our

Society is not AS segregated. For every person who spouts lynching or wears an Auschwitz shirt, there are probably 1000 who are disgusted. Americans aren't the brightest on the block, but I bet more and more will come to understand that armed, violent invasion of Congress is treason. If some of those who've been caught would be charged with treason instead of illegal entry, they'd grasp the severity of what they did. So many of them have been so pampered by white privilege and freedoms, the idea of accountability didn't cross their minds. The armed militias will continue, but I think the majority of the others will change their minds.

Our government needs to cyber hack QAnon and any other conspiracy sites to disable them.