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Only for “much of this year”? Are you kidding me?
His many, many flaws were/are invisible to his selectively blind cult members. Those people were, however, loud and obnoxious enough to force their opinion on the weak Republican Party, and the party was too ineffectual to come up with an alternative. Boo fucking hoo.
His flaws aren't invisible to his cult members, they're why they follow him in the first place.
If He can a be racist, bigoted piece of shit that can do no wrong then they can be racist, bigoted pieces of shit that can do no wrong.
His sexism justifies their sexism. His constant grifting justifies their constant grifting.
But above all else, in my humble opinion, is that he's an absolute fucking moron that likes to think he's the smartest person in the room. And when you're an absolute fucking moron that doesn't understand how pronouns work or why masks were important or anything like that, well that's okay because actually you know better because you're smart, you're the smartest guy in the room, you know better than all those experts, just like Trump.
The fact that the party was basically forced to run him again just tells me that the republicans are in big trouble after Trump leaves. Their voter base is declining and they don’t have another populist to take his place.
So their options after this are either to try and get another populist and push trash candidates over the line, which won’t work. Or they can do the right thing and give up on their social positions against minorities and abortion. The outcome of the first option is they lose a lot of elections, the outcome of the second option of changing positions is to split the party. I just don’t know how they move forward when Trump loses.
This has been true for literally decades and it hasn't stopped them yet. When you can gerrymander, suppress voters, take advantage of the Electoral College, and pack the Supreme Court with cronies, you don't really care about demographics.
Well sure, but there is a critical point at which they can’t use those to compensate anymore and that point is already passed them I think. That’s why you’re seeing them try to steal elections, they know there is no legitimate way to win them now. So unless democrats do some really stupid things, they may not have the population to gain the minority of votes they need to keep power.
Quite arguably, they stole the Presidential elections in both 2000 and 2016. 2000 was aided and abetted by the Supreme Court (hence "pack the Supreme Court with cronies"), while 2016 was aided and abetted by Putin and the Russians - at least that shit is new in the Republican playbook.
Gerrymandering is also only so effective. If enough people move or die you're stuck running a radical right candidate in a newly moderate district.