Republicans have finally come to the realization...

[kentuck]

That they cannot win with Trump.

And they cannot win without him.

They are a weakened and dishonored Party because of their loyalty to the crook.

Their growing list of candidates for President looks like the F Troop. None of them have a spine but they will rush to tell the remaining Republicans how much they disagreed with Trump.

No one benefits more from the prosecution of Donald J Trump than the Republican Party.

Unfortunately, they have become a Party that stands for nothing.

[Buckeyeblue]

1. The funny thing is that had they convicted him on the first impeachment he would be old news

There would have been screaming from the mountains. Biden would have still won. But they wouldn't have the Trump problem.

He would have never gotten the chance to take classified documents. And he wouldn't have tried to overturn the election. There would have been no January 6th.

Trump would still bitch and moan occasionally but it would be like yelling into the abyss. It wouldn't matter.

But Republicans decided to let Trump be Trump. And boy has he done just that.

And the Republicans could have stopped it all.

[speak easy]

4. The worst call McConnell ever made.

Who is sorry now, Mitch?

[FakeNoose]

2. Most of them will never understand how close Chump came

... to tearing down this entire country. They're still walking around with blinders on.

[2naSalit]

3. That party has...

A terminal disease. The sooner it dies, the better. There can be another party to replace that one.

[Caliman73]

5. I understand what you are saying, but I disagree.

The modern Republicans/Conservatives, have always been a party that serves only the interests of the wealthy. They have also aligned naturally with White Supremacists and Christian Nationalists. Since after Eisenhower, the party has moved further to the right. They have always understood (at least since the late 60's) that they represent a small portion of the population. Small but extremely wealthy and with the ability to control the media apparatus.

Their alliance with White Supremacists and Christian Nationalists has been somewhat tenuous because while they needed the numbers, they didn't want to be explicitly connected.

They chose to embrace Trump because it was just another path to power. They didn't understand or chose to ignore that they were dealing with a malignant narcissist. Nixon had his problems too, but he did not have a coordinated right wing media ecosystem with the various facets pulling the levers like Trump does.

Now, the Republican Party is in their dilemma. No one really cares about the interests of the ultra wealthy on their own. They are wealthy. They will be fine no matter what happens. How does the Republican Party continue to represent the Wealthy while trying to distance themselves from the overt White Supremacists and Christian Nationalists. Those groups have tasted power through Trump and do not want to let that power go.

Republicans stand for something. It is just that that something has always been antithetical to the ideals on which the country was founded.

[housecat]

6. Good read, thank you

[FSogol]

7. All the clowns running for the GOP nomination are having a fever dream that Trumpy will be hauled

away and that they can pick up the reins and proclaim, "I'm the biggest asshole!"

I can only hope that Trumpy pulls down the whole lot with him.

[NotVeryImportant]

8. If Biden loses to this mess.

What will that say?

[betsuni]

10. Say about the voters?

[jaxexpat]

9. GOP has had a 150 year drought on legitimacy.

The operate in waves. Waves of bad and waves of worse.

[MotorCityBeard]

11. This song fits this situation....