Republicans terrified that Trump will turn his rabid base against the party

[applegrove]

DAVID FERGUSON at Raw Story

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/07/republicans-terrified-that-trump-will-turn-his-rabid-base-against-the-party/

"SNIP............


Republicans in Congress and the broader Grand Old Party (GOP) are worried that now that President Donald Trump has cut loose former Republican National Committee (RNC) honchos Reince Priebus and Sean Spicer, he could turn his followers against the party itself.

In a Politico essay published Sunday, reporter Tim Alberta said that members of the Republican Party are fretting that Trump will go rogue and use his followers’ fanatical devotion to undermine other figures in the GOP should they disappoint him.

Reince Priebus was a well-connected Wisconsin Republican with long-standing relationships with Gov. Scott Walker (R-WI) and Speaker of the House Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI). Spicer, too, has spent years working with various factions within the GOP and uniting fractious coalitions.

However, Spicer and Priebus both ran afoul of their new boss early on.

“Trump trampled Priebus from Day One,” wrote Alberta, “sending out press secretary Sean Spicer, a longtime Preibus ally, to deliver a demonstrably false rant about the inaugural crowd size. Trump resented the idea that his chief of staff was there to tame him, and resented even more the notion that Priebus was the conduit to a Republican Party he had conquered.”


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[catbyte]

1. Well then, if they do they'll be just a bunch of impotent old blowhards with no influence at all

once he flames out.

[VMA131Marine]

2. They thought Hitler could be controlled as well...

I just hope that these generals Trump is appointing to his cabinet are patriots and not Trumpbots or it will all end very badly.

[TEB]

6. How true

[lunasun]

11. I don't think they would be in his cabinet if they didn't want to work with trump . Maybe they

are on authoritarian power trips also.

[dhol82]

22. I am hoping that they are patriots

And have accepted positions in the White House so they can try to control the chaos that is now going on.

[pangaia]

42. LOL.

[dhol82]

43. Yeah. Sigh.

One can hope.

[pangaia]

44. Hope is like prayer. It only helps when it works....or something like that.

[lunasun]

45. Hope you are not counting on Kelly

https://www.vox.com/2017/7/29/16060614/trump-john-kelly-immigration-dhs
TomCADem just posted this good read on Kelly trump

[dhol82]

52. Fuck.

Whenever I think think there might be some rational people wandering through the miasma of the trump whitehouse I get shot down.

[lunasun]

55. I'm not trying to bring you down but these people want to work with trump and his agenda

is a good thing they want to help with. I keep reading how new people in his cabinet are going to turn things around for the better and I dont know why they would join his team to work against him. Just assume if they have joined trump, not good guys

[demosincebirth]

64. Wishing, again.

[maddiemom]

48. Hitler was in his mid-forties when he came to power...

and dead before sixty. He supposedly was a vegetarian in his later years. We can at least be thankful that Trump is seventy-one and looks more unhealthy and heavier everyday. If he makes it through one term, he surely won't have the energy and sanity to actually run for a second, despite the fact that he began his re-election campaign the minute he took office.

[winetourdriver01]

56. Hitler

Hitler had a "Dr. Feelgood" that helped grease the skids to the great beyond. I have no doubt that Chump has one as well. We can only hope, as this shitshow has to end soon or my beloved US of A is in deep shit.

[Cary]

3. Fascists are subversive

This does not end well for Republicans.

[mucifer]

4. It doesn't matter if they hack the elections

[SHRED]

5. The fact that they couldn't see this coming

Indicates they are not smart enough to govern

[BigmanPigman]

10. They've been "governing"? Could've fooled me.

[SHRED]

16. LOL

[DBoon]

31. they call it governing

we call it looting and pillaging

[SammyWinstonJack]

51. MAGA. MORONS ARE GOVERNING AMERICA

[EllieBC]

59. What could they have done? That's the nature of a primary.

They couldn't pretend he didn't win the primary and run someone else.

[CentralMass]

7. I thought that this had already happened.

[SamKnause]

8. They already have.

The fringe controls the Republican party.

It certainly took them a long time to realize this.

They put party over country and deserve everything coming their way.

The Republican party was bad, but the Tea Party Evangelicals are insane !!!

Enjoy what you helped to create.

Keep watching Fox 'News' and listening to right wing blowhards.

[regnaD kciN]

63. True, but the Republicans have imagined...

...that they could ride the Trumpbagger wave into control, on the premise they could unite in pursuit of compatible goals. That could end if Il Douche decides to explicitly cut ties with the institutional G.O.P.

[KentuckyWoman]

9. Yeah, whatever

If anyone in the Republican party expected anything other than to get a swift kick from ferret head at the earliest opportunity then they are possibly brain damaged.

His allegiance is only to himself... then, now and forever.

[imanamerican63]

12. They wanted him, he was different!

They got want they deserve, but the really bad thing? Our country has to pay for what the GOP wanted!

[defacto7]

28. So I guess we got what they deserve.

[moonscape]

50. Perfectly stated. n/t

[randr]

13. Souless bastards are gonna find out that

the check is about to bounce.

[GeoWilliam750]

14. Perhaps the owner of the rent a mob is not President Trump

But Rupert Murdoch

[lib-ruhl]

15. It doesn't matter...

This idiot has no business being president!

Everything else is just fluff.....

[Iggo]

46. Read this yesterday, can't remember where...

Last edited Mon Jul 31, 2017, 02:25 AM - Edit history (1)

"He's not smart enough to govern, and he's not man enough to admit it."

[SHRED]

17. They could end this now

But they aren't.

[Egnever]

18. As they should be

Will they do anything about it is the question.

[Little Star]

19. If You Lie Down With Dogs, You Will Wake Up With Fleas.

[benld74]

20. NOW they're terrified?

😩
Geez they are so greedy for power they couldn't see past end of their own noses.
Party before country
Right GOP??

[gratuitous]

37. No kidding

They sure didn't mind at all in 2010 when these same Tea Baggers were turning their wrath on the Democrats. Big fun then, wasn't it guys? Now you've got all the power and you can't deliver. Guess what?

These fuckers are getting their just deserts.

[njhoneybadger]

21. "For they sow the wind, and they shall reap the whirlwind."

[Xipe Totec]

35. They're more like a bunch of sows breaking wind. nt

[Xolodno]

23. Oh the irony....

They used the last census to create fiefdoms that immunized them from Democrats...now the very fiefdoms they created may rise up and revolt against them.

[Proud Liberal Dem]

26. Seems like gerrymandering has helped them but hurt them

Helped them win lots of elections and hold a lot of seats in Congress but they don't represent the vast majority of the country and their policies don't command much public support either.

[applegrove]

29. That is so true.

[Xolodno]

32. Thats part of the problem.

On one hand, they demonize social welfare programs, promise to stand for industries that are no longer economically viable, etc. But when it comes time to deliver, they can't. Doing so would severely harm their constituents which would result in their eventual demise, i.e. "you promised coal jobs! but there aren't any!" ...but if the vote for new industries for their constituents... "you voted against coal jobs!"

And the unfortunate part, they can communicate, in the example I used, that coal is dead.... and they will refuse to believe it and rally around the next opportunist who will tell them what they want to hear. Diversifying their district would have protected them from that, but, it also puts them at risk against a politician from the Democratic Party. Apparently they thought a "safe" district was better.

[TEB]

24. Good let them be scared

They are pigs bullies scared little shits that wanted to brutalize Americans with the shitty health care bill. These clowns have no honor or integrity I find it amusing that they are afraid. They could make this stop real fast but are afraid to take action.

[Best_man23]

25. The bill is coming due

[jaysunb]

27. Throw in Sessions and you have a trifecta.

The south wing doesn't like what they're seeing on him.

[RDANGELO]

30. This is the Frankenstein's monster that they have created.

You have Fox News an right wing radio where they are not just being reinforced; they are being manipulated by a bunch of sociopaths who don't care about the ramifications on society in what they are doing.

[kerry-is-my-prez]

58. Yep

[certainot]

62. it's dumb for the left to keep ignoring the fact that trump is being enabled

largely by a few hundred lying assholes on 1200 radio stations pushing made-to-order alt reality constituencies for a few billionaires that may include putin now. there's no reason putin wouldnt have figured out how to use limbaugh and sons since it's been so successful here for dumbing down a large population to think that, for instance, global warming is a hoax and the longer the planet holds off action on global warming the more billions he makes on oil royalties and arctic exploitation.

[no_hypocrisy]

33. Here we go again, Night of the Long Knives, Part II

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Night_of_the_Long_Knives

[Still In Wisconsin]

34. As I've said all along, "You own him now, motherfuckers."

I feel so bad for them.

[JDC]

36. They'll start to spin it that he's really a Democrat.

So they can seperate themselves and can get back to what they do best: point fingers and blame democrats for the sun setting.

If Fox got hold of it the sheep would buy it lock, stock, and barrel.

[Phoenix61]

47. Someone just told me that exact thing today

Said Trump was really a Democrat and that he and Hillary had been friends from way back. He then went on to say it was all a plan on the part of the Democrats to take control. What the hell do you say to that?

[progressoid]

61. Someone said that to me yesterday too!

Although he wasn't a trumpster and didn't have that elaborate conspiracy theory. He just wanted to point out that Trump wasn't a true republican.

[JDC]

68. I think I would say preposterous.

[roamer65]

38. Dumpists are like a virus.

It infected the host, the Rethug party. Now that the host is nearly dead, the virus is looking for other hosts to infect.

[obamanut2012]

39. What do they mean, "will" -- it's already happening

[sandensea]

40. "I am hereby establishing the Freedom Party."

"Because there's nothing I - and all of you, my REAL Americans - love better than freedom! Believe me."

[Skittles]

41. PLEASE PROCEED

YES INDEED

[Initech]

49. His rabid base of bot accounts? Yeah why not?

[Takket]

53. sorry GOP

"When you sell your soul to Trump, there are no refunds."

credit to @goldengateblonde for that line

[czarjak]

54. Nitwit counter Nitwit?

Wonder Weasels in a death match.

[Binkie The Clown]

57. Wouldn't THAT be a glorious thing to behold? n/t

[JNelson6563]

60. Ah the zealous puritans

No compromise, no reason, just smash and grab. Say yes or you are sworn enemy for life. reminds me of a group out there on the left. Surely they look on through jealous rage at the successful and complete destruction of the Republican party. They probably don't realize what a long time this took either with that raging instant gratification issue.

[workinclasszero]

65. Its already happening

Go look at freakrepublic if you can stomach it.

They are all about going third party now. They hate the GOP with a passion!

[Warren DeMontague]

66. Why....That would be AWFUL!

[beachbum bob]

67. its karma, you create the batshit crazies and you will end up failing because of them

get more popcorn

[FreepFryer]

69. He is their humonculus (n/t)

[ThoughtCriminal]

70. A rabid base of Russian Hackers too?

He who rides the tiger, dares not to dismount.