If Harris wins in November, how will Republicans respond to
Oct 16, 2024 22:21:29 GMT
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Post by aj2hall on Oct 16, 2024 22:21:29 GMT
How will Republicans respond to Trump's claims of election fraud? Although Harris' win is not certain, Trump's response to her win is without a doubt. This has been his playbook for months, he's creating chaos, planting seeds of doubt and will definitely call the election rigged. Will Republicans stand by Trump? Or will they finally break from him? Will they learn from Jan 6 and try to avoid any potential violence? Have they answered McConnell's question from 2020 - what's the downside to humoring Trump? I tried to cover all of the bases in the poll, but might have missed some.
This opinion made me wonder if it's possible the Republicans will do the right thing this time. Given the Republican losses in 2020, 2022, every special election and maybe, again in 2024, it seems like there might be a possibility of them jumping ship for self preservation.
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I’m not going to sit here and appeal to your sense of patriotism, because we’ve all tried that already, and it’s like trying to reason an alcoholic out of drinking. I get that you’re afraid of Trump’s nationalist movement, afraid of primary challenges in your districts, still selling yourselves on the dubious idea that Trump represents the restoration of conservative values, rather than a grotesque perversion of them.
You’re not going to do the right thing because it’s right, and I’m not going keep pushing that particular boulder up a hill.
Instead, I will appeal to your self-interest. Because if we’re clear-eyed and mercenary about this, you could be on the verge of a huge political opportunity — and clinging to Trump amid another constitutional crisis might be the only way to screw it up.
After all, who knows where your party might be right now if you hadn’t so quickly brushed aside the sacking of the Capitol in 2021 and continued to abet Trump’s twisted conspiracy theory? The polling tells us that while Trump’s MAGA supporters have dug in on this narrative over time, the rest of America considers it loopy and reckless.
I can’t be the only one who thinks the midterm elections in 2022, conducted at a time of soaring inflation, would have gone way better for you if you hadn’t allowed yourselves to become the party of election denial, on top of having overturned Roe v Wade. Maybe you’d have the Senate right now. Maybe you’d be fielding better candidates than Kari Lake and Mark Robinson.
If we can’t agree that violent insurrection was an unmitigated disaster for your party, then surely we can say it has been a damaging distraction and a branding nightmare. I can’t imagine why any thinking Republican would sign up for another four years of that.
In baseball terms (my mind these days is always on the Yankees), this is what we call a hanging slider. The day that Trump goes away is the day that the Republican Party begins, almost by default, to compete for the middle of the electorate, rather than devolving into a loud, semi-permanent minority.
Unless, that is, you’re so frightened of losing your next primary to a MAGA opponent that you’re willing to follow Trump down the same old rabbit hole and spend every interview sidestepping questions about fraud that you know doesn’t exist — or, worse yet, about the tragic violence you knew was coming and did nothing to stop.
No one’s expecting you to do what’s right. But maybe what’s smart isn’t out of the question.
This opinion made me wonder if it's possible the Republicans will do the right thing this time. Given the Republican losses in 2020, 2022, every special election and maybe, again in 2024, it seems like there might be a possibility of them jumping ship for self preservation.
wapo.st/48q7S5X
I’m not going to sit here and appeal to your sense of patriotism, because we’ve all tried that already, and it’s like trying to reason an alcoholic out of drinking. I get that you’re afraid of Trump’s nationalist movement, afraid of primary challenges in your districts, still selling yourselves on the dubious idea that Trump represents the restoration of conservative values, rather than a grotesque perversion of them.
You’re not going to do the right thing because it’s right, and I’m not going keep pushing that particular boulder up a hill.
Instead, I will appeal to your self-interest. Because if we’re clear-eyed and mercenary about this, you could be on the verge of a huge political opportunity — and clinging to Trump amid another constitutional crisis might be the only way to screw it up.
After all, who knows where your party might be right now if you hadn’t so quickly brushed aside the sacking of the Capitol in 2021 and continued to abet Trump’s twisted conspiracy theory? The polling tells us that while Trump’s MAGA supporters have dug in on this narrative over time, the rest of America considers it loopy and reckless.
I can’t be the only one who thinks the midterm elections in 2022, conducted at a time of soaring inflation, would have gone way better for you if you hadn’t allowed yourselves to become the party of election denial, on top of having overturned Roe v Wade. Maybe you’d have the Senate right now. Maybe you’d be fielding better candidates than Kari Lake and Mark Robinson.
If we can’t agree that violent insurrection was an unmitigated disaster for your party, then surely we can say it has been a damaging distraction and a branding nightmare. I can’t imagine why any thinking Republican would sign up for another four years of that.
In baseball terms (my mind these days is always on the Yankees), this is what we call a hanging slider. The day that Trump goes away is the day that the Republican Party begins, almost by default, to compete for the middle of the electorate, rather than devolving into a loud, semi-permanent minority.
Unless, that is, you’re so frightened of losing your next primary to a MAGA opponent that you’re willing to follow Trump down the same old rabbit hole and spend every interview sidestepping questions about fraud that you know doesn’t exist — or, worse yet, about the tragic violence you knew was coming and did nothing to stop.
No one’s expecting you to do what’s right. But maybe what’s smart isn’t out of the question.
