"The future of the Republican Party is like the life cycle of a star. It's going to become older..."

[demmiblue]

Former head of the Michigan GOP @jefftimmer puts it this way, "The future of the Republican Party is like the life cycle of a star. It's going to become older and whiter and denser and eventually implode."

Link to tweet

Michigan Republicans clash over Trump’s future in the party

U.S. Rep. Peter Meijer was in his first week of office when the pro-Trump mob seized the Capitol.

The soft-spoken Republican and Iraq War veteran from West Michigan was in the gallery above the House chambers, preparing to vote in favor of certifying Joe Biden's victory, when rioters were breaking down barricades, pummeling police, and barging into the building.

He had anticipated a rowdy crowd. For two months, President Donald Trump and his fanatic supporters were spreading falsehoods about election fraud. Many of his Republican colleagues were peddling the same lies and planned to vote to overturn the election.

But Meijer never expected an insurrection. Yet there he was, in a 228-year-old building that symbolizes democracy, receiving text messages warning that rioters were inching closer to the ornate halls of Congress.

"When I heard about tear gas, it became very evident that there was no control and things were starting to unwind," Meijer tells Metro Times. "There was a lot of chaotic information being relayed in really short order."

https://www.metrotimes.com/detroit/michigan-republicans-clash-over-trumps-future-in-the-party/Content

[lagomorph777]

1. They could rename themselves The Black Hole Sons

[demmiblue]

2. !

[Vogon_Glory]

3. It may be like a dying star, but

Like an older star it cooks the people too close to it the way a yellow star turns into a red giant and roasts its inner planets.

[roamer65]

4. Their true goal is to be like the old National Party from South Africa.

Extremely white, racist and fascist.

[Wednesdays]

6. So, how did that turn out?

[roamer65]

7. In the long run it will turn out the same.

History doesn’t repeat, but sure does rhyme.

Right now, they are willing to setup a minority rule, white fascist state to maintain power.

[abqtommy]

5. As long as I get my wish to see all the reTHUGS in jail/prison I'll be happy! nt

[PortTack]

8. Great analogy

[Saboburns]

9. It's a coalition of uber-dumbasses plus evil fuckers of the highest order.

If it were just one or the other, mouth-breathing retards or total villains, then Republicans would be little bother.

But where they become statistically significant and worrisome and get their political power is thru coalition in that it is a combination of stupid people + evil people.

if you add up all the stupid Americans to all the evil Americans, well then you have a sizeable percentage of the electorate.