GOP strategist delivers last rites: 'When Trump leaves, there will be no more Republican party'

[workinclasszero]

BRENDAN SKWIRE 15 NOV 2018 AT 16:00 ET

Republican strategist Rick Tyler told MSNBC on Thursday that he doesn’t expect the Republican party to survive President Trump — and wonders what will replace it.

The party, he told host Chris Jansing, was hemorrhaging affluent women, along with African American and Latino voters they’ve already lost.

“That would be a generational realignment, and if that’s true the Republicans won’t be in charge for a very, very long time,” he said, adding that the party needed to “stand up to the president” more often. Still, Tyler believed the party was in a death spiral.

“When Donald Trump leaves, there will be no Republican party anymore. I don’t know what will replace it, but I don’t think that coalition exists anymore.”

https://www.rawstory.com/2018/11/gop-strategist-delivers-last-rites-when-trump-leaves-there-will-be-no-more-republican-party/

[Rorey]

1. The party needed to stand up to -45

Instead they became his accomplices.

RIP GOP

[workinclasszero]

5. Yes but they chose to kiss his ring instead and play the race hate card

May the GOP rest in Hades!

[Rorey]

7. Yes, Hades!

Thank you for correcting my error.

[workinclasszero]

8. NP

[sheshe2]

10. I guess they really do believe...

I guess they really do believe… In a ‘persons’right to chose. They chose party over people. They just aborted themselves.

[ooky]

6. All they were thinking about is how easy

it would be for them to loot us with a criminal in the White House to sign off on their legislative theft.

[Brother Buzz]

2. Can't science just clone more change jingling old white farts?

[klook]

14. Hey, some of us are Democrats!

But I get your drift. Now get off my lawn!

[Alhena]

3. He makes a really good point

[Blue Owl]

4. Gotta say I like the sound of that

Although it will probably be some kind of zombie outfit that wields power from beyond the grave through big corporate money...

[hibbing]

9. I've seen this movie before

Wasn't the last presidential election supposed to be the death of the Republican party? Like a turd that won't flush, they will float back up to the top.


Peace

[workinclasszero]

12. The only voting blocks the GOP can depend on are white males with a HS education

the dying by the day, Baby Boomers and the religious right.

If they don't change Trump's racist, nationalist white power racism, the party is DEAD.

[redstateblues]

28. great analogy!!

[GaYellowDawg]

30. EXACTLY!

Well said!

[Midnight Writer]

11. The Republican Party will exist as long as our American Oligarchs continue to fund it.

Just like right wing hate radio. Shows like Rush Limbaugh lose millions of dollars, but are funded by private donors.

[ProfessorGAC]

20. Same Answer

Their demographic is fading
No listeners, no hate radio

[msongs]

13. repubs still the party of racist, sexist, homophobic immigrant bashers w/out trump nt

[lindysalsagal]

15. Hater/GUNZ party. Lovely.

The evangelicals will stay with them, not move to Dems.

[Iterate]

16. Not an ounce of courage among them,

and I don't see how they will form a new party without courage and a renewal of core American ideals. "Not quite as bad as Trump" is hardly a motivating rallying cry.

Structurally it's possible, even now, or especially now. Defectors (or new party founders, if you will), especially in the Senate, could resign their party, go indie, and caucus with Democrats. Restore the rule of law, no compromises, shackle Pence or his newly appointed successor, then let the chips fall in 2020.

But not an ounce of courage. Such things have happened in the past, but not with this lot.

[50 Shades Of Blue]

17. Riiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiiight.

[Victor_c3]

18. I've been saying something along those lines for years

The Republican Party is in its last death spasms - or at least the Republican Party as we know it.

[ThoughtCriminal]

19. First, the will shrink to a "Regional Party"

Then eventually, it will be down to two angry old men who spend their time screaming at each other over which one of them is more conservative.

[workinclasszero]

25. Then this....

[Garrett78]

21. Bullshit. The Republican Party isn't going anywhere.

First of all, memories and attention spans are short. Gerrymandering and voter suppression are alive and well. We have a tyranny of the minority system that heavily favors Republicans in terms of the Senate (a good 40 seats are basically out of reach for us). A majority of governors are Republican. A large number of states are completely under Republican control. There are, at most, 10 battleground states.

We're more likely to see Trump 2.0, a more savvy and charismatic demagogue, than we are to see the demise of the Republican Party.

[central scrutinizer]

23. Exactly right!

I've been on DU since 2002 and I remember multiple posts claiming the Repugs were done, dead and buried, after GWB destroyed the economy in 2008 and Iraq was turning into an epic cluster-fuck. But, ... here we are now with only the House saving the US from ruin. Organize and fight, never slow down.

[Garrett78]

24. Yeah, this wishful thinking makes a regular appearance.

And then there's the family of "MSNBC Republicans in denial." In denial about their complicity in what their party has become, as if Trump happened in a vacuum (as opposed to being the inevitable result of 50+ years of increasingly cruel rhetoric and policy). I suspect they hope to assuage their guilt by forecasting the party's demise and replacement. They'd love to go back to the days of using a dog whistle instead of a bullhorn. They worship at the altar of Saint Ronnie, as if there's no linkage between Reagan and Trump. Idiots.

[VOX]

22. Spoiler alert: It's already morphed into the American Fascist Party.

With an untethered, insane autocrat nominally "in charge," lots of huzzahs from the patriot-liberty-christian-nationalist types and absolute stony silence from his enabling cabinet and party members.

Every day that this abominable freak-show is allowed to continue, all that's good and decent grows dimmer. But last week's election brings a ray of hope.

[lpbk2713]

26. There will be a GOP Supreme Court for a long time.

And they will do all they can to keep their party alive.

[redstateblues]

27. Pundits have trumpeted the death of the GOP for decades

That segment between him and Jansing was ridiculous. Oddly she seemed sad at the prospect of the end of the GOP. Very strange. I used to buy into that but as long as mean people need an ideology to embrace we can look forward to the GOP. Hopefully very weak.

[Initech]

29. There may not be a republican party, but there will always be hateful assholes.

Cue the violins!

[Kahuna7]

31. I watched that. Chris Jansing seems to take exception to him

saying the republican party would cease to exist. I was like, really Chris? STFU.

[erronis]

32. Whatever happened to that most patriotic of all, the Tea Party? Why won't they be the next standard

bearers for the repuglicons? Why won't Koch and Mercer own up to their crimes? Was it just to destroy a multi-party system in the US or was it an attempt to overthrow the elected government?

Let's hope that some honest people start investigating and prosecuting the crimes of the last 20+ years. (And no, they aren't Hillary's email servers.)

[Turbineguy]

33. Yes, it's a difficult choice.

The Party or the Country.