Republicans Didn't Learn Anything From the Midterms

[DemocratSinceBirth]

Just as he has before, President Donald Trump may eventually retreat from his latest threat to shut down the federal government unless Congress provides him $5 billion for his border wall.

But Trump’s decision to rattle sabers this week over the wall—a proposal that about three-fifths of Americans have consistently opposed in polls—points toward a larger dynamic that appears guaranteed to shape his presidency through the 2020 election. Trump, the Republican congressional leadership, and most of the conservative-media infrastructure have all made clear that they see no need for a course correction after the midterms, even though Democrats won more than 53 percent of the total popular vote in House elections. That’s a larger share than Democrats have captured in any election since 1988, when most southerners still voted Democratic—or than the GOP has attracted since 1946.

Instead, the dominant reflex across the GOP this month has been to minimize the magnitude—and, equally important, the predictability—of the backlash against Trump that fueled Democratic gains in the House, state legislatures, and governors’ mansions. The party is steaming full speed ahead down the Trump track.

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https://www.theatlantic.com/politics/archive/2018/11/trump-cost-gop-midterms/576850

[Aristus]

1. They never learn anything from anything.

Learning is 'elitist'...

[DemocratSinceBirth]

2. I hope they don't change a thing.

[Nay]

6. Yep - I want them to keep on truckin' into oblivion.

[Achilleaze]

3. republicans have turned their asses toward America, truth, democracy & honor

They have sold out completely. No honor. No redemption.

[Soxfan58]

4. They chase the big donors

They could care less what the people think. They plan on lying and distorting facts at election time with all the big money they get. Government by the koch brothers for the koch brothers.

[beachbum bob]

5. They will still be stacking the courts and dumping govt rules,

Nothing changing there.

[workinclasszero]

7. You would think the massive blue wave asskicking America just gave the Dump and the GOP would

wake some people up but naw. Republicans are a religious cult now.

They will ride their filthy party right into the ground, doubling down all the way!

2020 is going to be glorious for the democratic party!

[Johnny2X2X]

8. They are the Anti-Democracy Party

They won't change their ideas and positions. The only thing they want to change are laws that affect voting rights. Basically they are finished with American Democracy and are working to end it.

[FSogol]

9. LOL, Republicans are the way gawd made them, their minds never change or evolve.

If they learned something they wouldn't be Republicans. That's why they hate public education and higher learning.

[gratuitous]

10. And yet

The media coverage, weeks before the Democrats take back the tiniest bit of power in January, is obsessed with how Democrats need to adjust, quit all that malarkey about accountability and making government work for more citizens, and shift to the right so that they don't alienate the voters who didn't vote for them. Republicans? Stay the course!