A longtime conservative insider warns: The GOP can't be saved

[mia]

With the midterm elections hurtling into their final stretch, a group of Never Trumpers is pumping millions of dollars into ads aimed at defeating Republican candidates aligned with Donald Trump and his lies about the 2020 election.

At the core of this effort is a big question: Can Trump’s continued domination of the news cycle, and the intensifying revelations about his lawlessness, alienate a small but meaningful enough fraction of GOP-leaning voters to affect the outcome?

The Republican Accountability Project, which is chaired by Never Trumper and conservative movement veteran Bill Kristol, is betting that it’s possible. A PAC linked to the group is spending money to try to defeat more than a dozen of the Trumpiest GOP candidates, those who support the “big lie” such as Doug Mastriano and Kari Lake, who are running for governor in Pennsylvania and Arizona.

...You can’t overestimate how much damage the capitulation of conservative and Republican elites has done. Trump by himself succeeding was bad. The Republican Party going along with Trump — and the conservative establishment legitimating and rationalizing and enabling Trump — created the very dangerous situation we’re now in....

https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2022/09/06/trump-gop-bill-kristol-jan-6-mar-a-lago/

[JustAnotherGen]

1. Oh well

Tots and pears

[Botany]

2. Bill Kristol's "big lie" see w & Cheney's war in Iraq.

[Bayard]

3. Put your mouth where your money is!

Go public with your anti-trumpism. It may give cover to more who feel the same way.

[SCantiGOP]

9. He's very open about it on MSNBC

He doesn’t hold back on his criticism of Trump
Or the MAGAs.

[MOMFUDSKI]

4. maybe what seemed a big win

is now scaring the shit out of thinking rethugs? Carry on kids.

[Lovie777]

5. Anything can be saved .......

but sincerely, do the GQP really want to be saved. I think the GQP truly in their insane minds sees no wrong and that has been their down fall. Total stealing, total cheating, total corruption, total lying, total ugly conspiracies, total non compassion and total fake Christians, and they still don't see that it's wrong. GQP are completely violent, complete hatred coupled with stone cold justification of it.

The GQP are gone beyond any reality.

As to Anti-shitholes, I wish them luck.

[2naSalit]

6. They'll still...

Not learn for long enough.

[doc03]

7. I am not concerned whether or not the GOP can be saved. I much more concerned if the

Democratic party and the country can be saved from the GOP MAGAts.

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

10. This 👆

[BluesRunTheGame]

8. We have Bill Kristol to thank for Sarah Palin.

He’s probably more responsible than most for our current situation.

[czarjak]

11. But, weren't WE gonna be dragged kicking and screaming to your side?