BTRTN: Lost In Transition... We Have Seen the Future of the GOP, and It Is Still Donald Trump.

[reggieandlee]

Born to Run the Numbers sees Trump’s atrocious post-election behavior as the weaponization of denial, his way of ensuring that he will continue to own the Republican Party, long after his Presidency ends:

http://www.borntorunthenumbers.com/2020/11/btrtn-lost-in-transition-we-have-seen.html

Excerpts: "Sure, everyone knew that even in defeat, Donald Trump would continue to exercise out-sized influence on the Republican Party. But the combination of asserting that the 2020 election was 'stolen,' the refusal to concede, stonewalling the transition, ignoring the virus, and now the rumor that Trump may announce that he will run again in 2024 is playing to fawning Republican acquiescence and only the most timid of dissent. It sure makes us wonder if there is a 'post' in the 'post-Trump' Republican Party. The soon-to-be former President of the United States has been sheltering-in-place in the White House -- apparently in order to avoid being contaminated by the actual election results -- all while demanding that the Republican sheep bleat, excrete, and retweet his deceit. Dutifully, those sheep are falling in line behind Trump’s demand for herd stupidity...
".. it could be just a big, sloppy loyalty test. Donald Trump is just testing everyone in the party to champion his utterly outrageous claim of election fraud in order to make clear that he still owns these people. .And what exactly does this mean for the dozens of Republicans who were positioning themselves for a “post-Trump” era? Good luck getting any traction when the 'post Trump era' looks exactly like the 'Trump era itself.
"He is the grift that will keep on grifting. He is the party guest who got bombed, slept on the couch, and now demands breakfast. He is at once the ghost of Christmas past, and yet also the ghost of Christmas yet to come. We have seen the future of the Republican Party, and its name is Donald Trump."

[exboyfil]

1. It has worked so far if all you care about is raw political power

Three Supreme Court justices, probably retain control in the Senate, and reduced Democratic advantage in the House. The state houses also went the wrong direction.

[Iliyah]

2. As Q consumes the republican party there will be another . . .

anti-shithole party that will rival it.

Dems will keep the house and eventually take the senate.

[lindysalsagal]

3. The Frankenstein Monster is eating it's parents alive, and they're not even trying to defend themsel

themselves. Irony really is dead.

[crickets]

4. Of course it's a loyalty test. For trump, everything is a loyalty test.

Of course he's going to keep grifting. It's his livelihood; always has been. None of this is news.