Sadly, you are correct
by mintirish (2024-02-07 11:36:06)

In reply to: It matters little who replaces her.  posted by BeijingIrish

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The Republican party has become the party of Trump. Those who disagreed with him and his tactics have either left town (Ben Sasse) or been primaried out of their seats (Liz Cheney)(to name a couple).

In 2016 I thought - Trump isn't the right guy, but he won the primary so the national party is coalescing behind him and perhaps he can drain the swamp a little by not being a conventional politician. 4 years of a Trump presidency showed us he had not interest in governing, it was all about himself.

Shockingly, the party didn't try to elevate an actual conservative Republican candidate in 2024 but the party has been shaped to a part of the Trump machine.

The only light I see at the end of the tunnel is that Trump will be gone at some point. At that point the Republican party can be rebuilt because Trumpism is a cult a personality, not an actual governing philosophy. Perhaps sometime in the later 2020s we will get someone with a governing philosophy to lead the Republican party again.

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