EXTINCTION LEVEL EVENT FOR GOP!!!

[cilla4progress]

Love this! Some conservative evangelical guy named Steve on Tamron Hall who says he predicted this in a USA Today article back in May. He says it's all over except for the body count.

Such sweet revenge for President Obama who has, more than anyone, had to put up with Trump's racism while trying to keep this country together and try to keep the image of America from going to the basement.

Sorry...THERE IS NOT ENOUGH POPCORN IN THE WORLD!!!

[tonyt53]

1. Many of us old Dems predicted this when Reagan started his nonsense.

[forgotmylogin]

42. "MmmmWWWAAAAHHGGGRRR...."

"We should have put some skill points into brain case size instead of these massively fearsome but useless tails! MMMWWWAAAHHHGGGGHRRRR!"

[GreenPartyVoter]

2. While I am not sure we are looking at extinction, or even a schism, I do agree that

the Prez deserves to enjoy this!

[Bernardo de La Paz]

32. Schism. GOP will have to cut off its rump with a rusty hacksaw if it wants meaningful reform.

Or the traditional style conservatives (educated, non- redneck) will have to leave en masse and start their own party.

[lib87]

45. I Love This Visual lol

And I agree. Trump is separating the republican party even further and I hope the kkk lite GOPers start their own party.

[djsunyc]

3. long term

i wouldn't be surprised if down the road the current group of democrates b/c the new conservatives while the bernie type democrates become the new liberals.

[Blue Idaho]

4. What a load of crap...

So who were you before you recently became djsunyc?

[Cha]

6. Really!

[djsunyc]

12. i'm not

even sure what you're talking about. just a hypothesis for a potential future.

[Blue Idaho]

14. I'm sure you know exactly what I'm talking about.

Don't play dumb.

[Adrahil]

11. That was inelegantly said.

If you mean that we may eventually move the enter of American politics to the left, I agree. And if the Dems form something like a permanent majority, we COULD see the emergence of viable far-left party. But that would not make the current Democrats "conservatives."

[djsunyc]

13. yes

you said it much better than i did.

[Frank Cannon]

17. I knew what you meant.

People have been touchy around here lately.

And I agree with you.

[pangaia]

57. Lately? :>))

[Gore1FL]

25. I knew what you meant and agree with you as well.

In fact last summer I too predicted that a new party would rise to the left as more and more of the "sane" GOP joined with the Democrats.

[anamandujano]

18. It sounds good to me also.

[ToxMarz]

23. It may be good result that the crazy social conservatives / alt-right and the 1% get ripped apart

Neither can stand on their own as a viable political majority. The crazy will always be crazy, but the 1% will have to find a stable home. If the democrats can keep them in check and not be corrupted by their money, maybe some real progress can be achieved.

[Orrex]

20. I, for one, look forward to your many years of positive contributions on DU.

[demigoddess]

22. learn to write a sentence. PLEASE!

[Cary]

24. Where do the deplorables go?

I don't want them. So we.have what? A merger of the radical right and the radical left?

Looking at JPR (which I did maybe 3 or 4 times) I'm pretty sure that happened already.

[Gore1FL]

27. I suspect the deplorables would go into the dustbin of history.

The new national conversation would be one of economics rather than one of culture wars.

[Frank Cannon]

44. Yes.

I am hoping that this election is the one that finally ejects those assholes from the forum of what will benefit our nation.

[Cary]

47. Don't kid yourself.

These people will be deplorable until their bitter end, and I do mean bitter. They will not go away simply because they were rejected in this election cycle. If they did the GOP would be more viable.

[Gore1FL]

54. There won't be a major party that aligns themselves with them, however.

Re-fighting lost culture wars has not been useful to the GOP. If there is a re-alignment as the OP suggests, they won't be part of the coalition as such.

[Cary]

56. Cool.

Couldn't happen to a nicer bunch.

[hj.anony1]

35. Where do they go?

I suggest back under the rock from which they crawled out.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

48. "Where do the deplorables go?"

[Cary]

49. If only ....

I'm afraid they are a millstone around our neck. Worse for the GOP, of course. But they are dead weight and we are forced to carry them.

[Spitfire of ATJ]

50. Make the new GOP symbol a bear....

Not only for it's obvious Russian connections but for....

[MineralMan]

46. Democrates? WTF?

I've only seen right-wingers spell it that way. Are you sure you're on the right website?

[erronis]

59. After some parsing, I also think you have a good pointe here.

Too bad the posse is quick to take action against perceived slights!

[Hekate]

61. What?!

[Cha]

5. Well, I"m looking forward to the "body count" then!

Thanks cilla

[workinclasszero]

7. Oh happy day!!!!

[central scrutinizer]

8. I'd like to think so, but

I remember this board back in 2008 when we were sure the Republican Party was done - stick a fork in them done. They had almost destroyed the economy and voters were electing Obama and Democrats controlled the House and had 60 Senate seats. It looked like a real progressive, New Deal type agenda could be enacted. A mere six years later, repugs were back in control of Congress.

[RobinA]

9. Right

Back in '73 the Republicans weren't supposed to be able to elect another President for a generation. We all know how that worked out!

Four years from now this will be ancient history.

[Moostache]

34. I'm afraid you are 100% right...

The bigger picture here is not whether or not Trump loses (he is finished), it is whether or not Democrats show up in numbers great enough to take back the Congress too.

Without a friendly Senate and House, Hillary Clinton will get absolutely NOTHING done. The Congress will employ the same tactics they have used on Obama, but they will be even more vitriolic in their intransigence.

4 years from now, the country is going to be coming off of 12 straight years of a Democrat in the White House, something that has happened exactly ONCE in the last 80 years (when FDR and Truman ran off 20 straight years over 6 terms). The longest GOP streak was Reagan-Bush I (from 1980 - 1992).

This country gets wanderlust with its leaders after a certain amount of time and without a friendly congress to help her, Hillary may find re-election a much tougher proposition that this circus freak show campaign has been. We need to realize that if GOTV falls short this year, it won't prevent Hillary from winning....it will just prevent her from governing.

[BlancheSplanchnik]

39. Truth

Would really like a change in media too. Regulations against lying would be nice.... (ha, yeah I know, there'd BE no media without lies. First to go would be advertising!)

[Lil Missy]

10. I think he's the one that scoffed at Joe Scar - said he made his show a Trump SuperPac

6 months ago and helped this turn into the disaster it is.

[elmac]

15. With his record high approval ratings

and reading about the Cons meltdown every day I bet the president is on cloud 9!

[Caliman73]

19. Maybe

I don't think that the President is built that way. Though I am sure he feels good about his legacy. I think that he is the type of person who actually feels saddened by the state of events within the Republican Party. To the President, it has never been just about winning and losing. It is about doing what is best for the American people. While I disagree with him on some of the policies he has supported or not supported, I don't think he was in it for himself like Trump is.

[Coolest Ranger]

26. Sweet, sweet

justice and revenge

[AllyCat]

28. I will believe it Wednesday, November 9th, 2016 when Dems have control of both houses and WH

Until then, VOTE!!!

[berksdem]

29. no justice....

no justice has been served until Drumpf is dead in the water on election day. If I had a brick for every single time I heard that "the GOP is dying and extinct" I would have the home the equivalent of Trump Tower - minus the tacky adornments.

The GOP is not going anywhere and we have not won anything. The polls are favorable but we still need to execute the GOTV to guarantee this dreadful human being is nowhere near the WH.

[Martin Eden]

33. Does this mean we're guaranteed to re-take the House?

If not, then the Rethug party is not yet extinct.

[berksdem]

36. +1!

[86derps]

37. Republicans are here to stay

Yes, Republicans are here to stay, but perhaps, they will be a less effective party divided. The problem for the USA is that the republican voter is so delusionally committed and faithful to conservative principals that logic cannot penetrate the parts of the brain for reasoning. It may take many years for the republican party to self correct.

[RaymondLuxuryYacht]

38. Just like volcanos

One never knows if they extinct.

[PunksMom]

40. President Obama endured what no president

has ever had to, along with the racism came disrespect, and opposition to almost every plan he wanted to implement. He deserves to see the republicans go down...HARD, & I hope he does! I'm so sick of their bullshit. UGH

[bucolic_frolic]

43. Walls from Ronald to Donald

"Mr. Gorbachev, tear down that wall!"

'I'm gonna build the greatest wall!'

I hate Reagan, but the concept of freedom was important to him.

Building walls, and fences, and divisions, and extraditions is not
part of freedom.

[C_U_L8R]

51. I remember Fitzmas

But I still believe. Maybe this time. Maybe next.

[Ilsa]

52. I thought the Tea Party was going to split them.

I don't think most of them know what they want. How do they analyze what each group is offering? Don't both groups embrace misogyny, homophobia, and racism, but one more openly than the other? And that's just off the top of my head.

[pansypoo53219]

55. DON'T gloat- VOTE!

[paulkienitz]

58. Speaking of predictions, look what I wrote in 2011:

"I just hope conservative America can {shrug off the distortions of propaganda}, and return to its true base values, which are a legitimate part of America and deserve representation. I just fear that the naturally greater tendency of conservatives — especially religious ones — to more frequently be followers instead of independent thinkers may undermine their ability to break free, and many of them may be doomed to follow a corrupt and failed oligarchic movement to its self-destruction. Some might come out of it enlightened and converted to the other side, but if the mainstream of the Republican party stays stuck in the old pattern, a lot of people will just be hurt, confused, directionless, and without a home in the political system, because neither party can speak for them. That’s a dangerous and unstable ingredient in politics, ripe for misuse."

Yeah, I sorta kinda anticipated the possibility of a demagogue like Trump taking over American conservatism, five years ago. https://supersonicman.wordpress.com/2011/09/02/134/

[lonestarnot]

60. Not enough in the world! And all that pent up anger for their continual obstruction for years on

everything! Not enough popcorn in the world!

[killbotfactory]

62. it's a karma hurricane for the GOP

[DFW]

63. Don't even start with the funeral arrangements

As long as there are fear, hate and jealousy in this world, there will be a Republican Party.

[Lunabell]

64. Gosh, I hate to be so gleeful...

WAIT. No I don't!

[colsohlibgal]

65. Some Thought That in 1964

As long as the Goebbels like Fox News and Rush can spew their right wing agenda, or enough people rediscover critical thinking, they will stick.

The stuff some people believe, the amazing things they don't know, is staggering. Anyone who watched some of Leno's "Jay Walking" bits knows this.

The powerful not dumb conservatives depend on getting work a day average people on their side. Lewis Powell said they needed "GOP-TV" and thanks to Reagan and cable they got it. They got people to vote directly against their own personal interest, to carry water for millionaires and billionaires.

Thos witless folks join with the nasty core, white power skin head types and it has often been enough.

We have to convince the non evil witless to actually research things, to come to their senses.