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The final GOP holdouts to Donald Trump whimper into oblivion.
By EDWARD-ISAAC DOVERE 06/13/2018 06:12 PM EDT
Put a blond combover on the elephant. Take down the pictures of Abraham Lincoln and Ronald Reagan. Its over. Its Donald Trumps GOP.
The anti-Trump candidates are fleeing, and the ones who stick around are getting trampled. The chill has gone out among whoevers left: theres no more speaking up, and if there is, its just for the sake of a speech, a protest quote that quickly disappears.
They chalk it up to party loyalty, or staying unified for the midterms. They say they still believe in the principles, but they dont tend to do more than say the words. Then, when the microphones are off, they confide. They complain. They nurse fantasies that theres a reckoning coming, that maybe this will all end with the Republican Party nominating someone like Eisenhower. Or at least like Paul Ryan.
And each time they watch another of their own go down, they wince, try to move on. Dont look back. Try to forget.
This business is a lot like being a professional fighter: Over the course of it, you get a lot of shots to the head, and sooner or later, youre knocked out, said Rep. Tom Cole (R-Okla.), mourning fellow Rep. Mark Sanfords loss in Tuesdays primary. The race was a referendum on Trump, in the South Carolina House district where he ran weakest in 2016.
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https://www.politico.com/story/2018/06/13/trump-republicans-sanford-resistance-644721
edbermac
(15,952 posts)It's just the old Nationalsozialistische Deutsche Arbeiterpartei.
Laf.La.Dem.
(2,947 posts)or this will be the next GOP Convention!
hatrack
(59,606 posts)Just more honest now that St. Reagan's mask has been replaced with a puckered orange asshole.
OnDoutside
(19,987 posts)maxrandb
(15,401 posts)Should start using the term "ReTrumplican Party" ALL THE TIME
Maybe if we do it enough, like the ReTrumplicans have with their Hate Radio conditioned "Democrat Party" moniker
Maybe we'll get to a point where even Tweety and all the other "so-called" Liberal Media begin using ReTrumplican Party, just like they use "Democrat Party".
OnDoutside
(19,987 posts)I'd go with Trumplicans !