BTRTN: Was January a "Once-In-a-Century" Month? Actually, Even Rarer
Born To Run The Numbers provides an in-depth analysis of the events of January, 2021, and studies the implications of this once-in-the-lifetime-of-our-republic month on the future, particularly of a Republican Party torn apart:
http://www.borntorunthenumbers.com/2021/02/btrtn-was-january-once-in-century-month.html
Excerpts: "But in the political realm, even 'once-in-a-century' is not an adequate appellation for what happened in January, 2021. Three successive Wednesdays in the month brought epochal events, none of which occurred in the last century or the one before that; indeed, they were unprecedented in our Republic’s history. Each was a marker of the cataclysmic end of the Trump Administration. But they also represented the beginning of a new, wildly uncertain era in American politics, and for America itself...
"America has functioned with a two-party system since 1854, with the rise of the Republican Party from the ashes of the Whigs and Free Soilers. While there have been third parties and independent challenges of note since then, and several elections when four parties legitimately vied for electoral votes, the two-party system has prevailed. But the Republicans are now facing the most serious split within a major party in the two-party era...In a CNN poll released after the insurrection and impeachment, 48% of GOP respondents wanted the party to move away from Trump, while 47% recognized and welcomed Trump as the party leader...
"Clearly, the future of the GOP is at stake. Some, like Paul, believe that a conviction will result in at least a third of the party exiting, perhaps following Trump if he creates a new “Patriot” Party, an idea he has floated...
"There will be a reckoning, because the GOP cannot win back anything – not the House, not the Senate, not the White House – in this current state. Trump, with his actions over the last three months, has fully ripped the party apart. It was Lincoln himself who said, in another context, that a “house divided against itself cannot stand.” Now it is the party of Lincoln that must conduct its own civil war."
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