Does anyone else think the R's will have an "epiphany" after Trump leaves office?

[pnwmom]

I thought they would have an epiphany right after Trump took office, and disown him, and replace him with their tea-party guy, Pence. So I obviously don't have any insight into the mind of an R.

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In New Hampshire, Joe Biden predicts that once President Trump is out of office, Republicans will have “an epiphany” and work with Democrats toward consensus.

Sahil Kapur is a Bloomberg reporter.

[TalenaGor]

1. of course they will....they are already planning the epiphany out lol

[paulkienitz]

2. I think they'll be split

Half of them will still be diehard deplorables, but a lot of the rest might well epiphanize.

[C_U_L8R]

3. If the epiphany is triggered by a jail sentence

Then sure, why not. But I really doubt these dumbshits will ever learn their lesson.

[Loge23]

4. Nonsense

The republican party is comprised of the worst of our country.
They're all-of-a-sudden going to change?

No offense to Joe, but he's living in the past.

[Nay]

13. Yep, Joe's just dreaming. All the pubs who have had epiphanies quit the pub party

a few years ago. The rest are deplorable.

[gaiadiversity]

5. Not as long

as McTurtleFace is around...

[dalton99a]

9. "Think of me as the Grim Reaper"

“If I’m still the majority leader of the Senate after next year, none of those things are going to pass the Senate. They won’t even be voted on. So think of me as the Grim Reaper: the guy who is going to make sure that socialism doesn’t land on the president’s desk.”
- Mitch McConnell, April 2019

[thegoose]

6. Hell no

With or without Dump, they're evil and corrupt.

[Efilroft Sul]

14. Hell 2 the no.

[yaesu]

7. The R's have one job & one job only, to destroy Democracy. They would be glad to work with

any Dems who help them do it (remember chained CPI?). I'm hoping there are no candidates that stupid.

[Raven123]

8. Yes, they definitely will have an epiphany if a Dem wins

They will rediscover a need to balance the budget, decry the the evil dictators in N. Korea, And Turkey, demand we get tough on Russia, and demand “free trade” with China.

[kimbutgar]

10. No that are irredeemable and corrupt.

This current crop needs to be voted out and put in the dustbin of history.

[PDittie]

11. No

[hay rick]

12. Almost all of them are beyond redemption. nt

[Demit]

15. I think Republicans will find Biden very pleasant to work with.

"...Nothing epitomizes Biden’s politics better than the speech he gave in 2011 at the University of Louisville’s McConnell Center, named after the Republican Senate Minority Leader who had at that point just finished up historically routing Biden and the administration he served. McConnell, who had candidly admitted his top goal was making sure Obama was “a one-term president” unless he did the GOP’s bidding, had turned a sixty-vote Democratic supermajority into an unavoidable necessity, stifling Obama’s legislative agenda and even slowing economic recovery to produce the Democrats’ “shellacking” in 2010. He then used this as leverage to get one of the most lopsided legislative “deals” in memory, trading the extension of unemployment insurance for the continuation of tax cuts for the rich, a markedly lower estate tax, and other giveaways that infuriated Democrats.

Three months later, Biden warmly celebrated McConnell and his success at having crushed the Democrats at their moment of historically rare political power. He painted the tax giveaway, which House Democrats angrily rebelled against and even Obama compared to negotiating with hostage-takers, as a textbook example of effective bipartisan compromise. And he reminded the audience about the essential unity of those who ran the government: whether they were liberal or conservative, Tea Party or Blue Dog, “they all ran for office because they love their country” and “because we basically all agree on the nature of the problems we face.”
https://www.jacobinmag.com/2019/04/joe-biden-2020-presidential-campaign-record

The above is from a Jacobin piece, but it's loaded with links to other, mainstream, publications.

[pnwmom]

19. Yeah, I'm afraid so. n/t

[loyalsister]

23. There's something kind of ugly to the epiphany claim

None of this would have happened if we had stayed the course, and they'll be reasonable if they get back to negotiating with a white man.
Return to normalcy feels like a cry for kind and friendly white male supremacy.

[Demit]

24. I think that's a definite subtext.

He's indicating that he knows Republicans want to return not just to pre-Trump times—that would only mean the Obama years, which were not happy ones for Republicans—he's saying they'll be happy because he represents pre-Obama times.

The guy is telling us who he is.

[AJT]

16. I don't think they will. The repubs will spend the 2 years after 45 leaves

calling for investigations and spewing lies. It has worked in the past and may work again. Besides they may easily hold onto the Senate.

[BobMcWan]

17. I don't see that happening.

The only epiphany they likely will have will be something along the lines of "Holy Cow! We got away with electing HIM as our distraction attraction machine. Maybe we COULD just put Kid Rock up for our candidate and win another round of tax cuts. May as well drown government in that bathtub sooner rather than later."
Maybe Joe knows the outlier Republican or two with firing synapses capable of empathy but my perception is Republicans don't want government to work, and I see no reason to seek consensus with saboteurs of democracy. Name them, shame them, vote them out. Stop with the consensus seeking and start staking out policy.

[pnwmom]

20. It's true. Ever since Reagan, their big idea is that government is the problem,

and there is no such thing as good government.

And they set out each session to prove it.

[Sneederbunk]

18. No. They will look for another Trump.

[Celerity]

21. sure thing, Joe

[Trenzalore]

22. Their base are assholes

They looked at 15-16 other people and determined Trump was their guy. Who the hell thinks they are going to have a heart change.

[aikoaiko]

25. Just the opposite.

[rampartc]

26. no.

trump is taking them to the promised land. when orange moses is gone they will find someone even more deplorable to lead them.

[LanternWaste]

27. I guessing Biden's using the word 'epiphany' in place of 'excuse' to give the right some wiggle room

[Laelth]

28. I do not. Their base won't allow it. n/t

-Laelth

[mtnsnake]

29. Hell no, BUT I think it was a smart move for Biden to predict it

because his message was a message of hope combined with the notion that Trump will be gone soon ("out of office&quot .

[Autumn]

30. Hell no. If anything they will be worse with a Dem in office. They found that they can get away

doing what they do and the media covers for them. Joe must have slept through the Obama years.

[comradebillyboy]

31. They might be a little less awful

Trump brings out the worst in people.