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Republicans are Facing an Extinction Event
American Thinker ^ | 15 Dec, 2025 | Brian C. Joondeph

Posted on 12/16/2025 4:46:41 AM PST by MtnClimber

An extinction event is a rapid, sweeping collapse -- something so disruptive that what emerges afterward is unrecognizable from what came before. Volcano eruptions or meteor strikes can trigger such events in the natural world.

Washington, D.C. may be approaching a political version of the same phenomenon, and Republicans seem disturbingly unprepared for what is coming.

The GOP currently holds narrow majorities in both chambers of Congress -- seven seats in the House and six in the Senate. Those margins are razor-thin by any measure, and fragile given that five senators, three Republicans and two Democrats, are over eighty years old. But demographics are only part of the problem. History is another.

According to the Khan Academy: “The president’s party often loses seats during midterm elections, a trend seen 93% of the time in the House and 70% in the Senate.”

If historical trends hold, Republicans are not merely at risk; they are heading into a storm they may not survive.

But history alone is not what endangers today’s GOP. It is performance, or more accurately, the lack of it.

Two weeks ago, in these pages, I documented Congress’s astonishing lethargy. In case you missed it, here’s the summary:

President Donald Trump has issued 217 executive orders, 54 memoranda, and 110 proclamations in his second term, yet Congress has codified only 28 of those EOs, around 13 percent, into law.

Confirmation of key positions is equally dismal. Of roughly 1,300 Senate-confirmable posts, the Senate has approved only 265. More than 100 nominations sit untouched in procedural purgatory. An “advice and consent” duty becomes meaningless when the Senate refuses to advise or consent on anything.

(Excerpt) Read more at americanthinker.com ...


TOPICS: Society
KEYWORDS: briancjoondeph; ele; elections; failuretheater; hyperbole; randpaulsucks; runforyourlife; wereallgonnadie
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To: bert

zeeper troll


41 posted on 12/16/2025 5:57:16 AM PST by dforest
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To: devane617

I agree.

The younger voters have already walked away due to inaction.


42 posted on 12/16/2025 5:58:13 AM PST by KEVLAR ( )
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To: MtnClimber

Meanwhile, what kind of interview is this?

“the vice president [JD Vance], who’s been a conspiracy theorist for a decade”

https://nypost.com/2025/12/16/us-news/ag-pam-bondi-completely-whiffed-handling-of-epstein-files-susie-wiles/


43 posted on 12/16/2025 5:58:29 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: MtnClimber

I don’t think Republicans understand the level of Trump hatred, which will turn to motivation to get to the polls in the midterm. I predict we’re gonna lose massively.


44 posted on 12/16/2025 6:01:04 AM PST by Hildy
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To: MtnClimber

You can lead a horse to the media, but you can’t make it think.

wy69


45 posted on 12/16/2025 6:02:18 AM PST by whitney69 (`)
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To: dforest
Trump said nothing upon the death of former VP Dick Cheney, as much a political enemy as Rob Reiner, although not as vocal. I don't know why he said what he said but Reiner’s criticisms may have annoyed him more.
46 posted on 12/16/2025 6:07:01 AM PST by Wallace T.
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To: AAABEST

Agree about the spending. In my opinion President Trump has made two big mistakes: not taking Elon’s recommendations more seriously (despite what he says publicly, he clearly doesn’t really care much about the deficit or the national debt), and prematurely declaring victory against inflation and demanding that the fed continue lowering interest rates when inflation is still a problem, which basic economics and history says you are NOT supposed to do.


47 posted on 12/16/2025 6:16:29 AM PST by jpl ("You are fake news.")
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To: Hildy
You have a point. While most conservatives, libertarians, and alt-right types have abandoned the legacy media, their audience is now made up of true believers. Up through about 2000, there was a common ground in the legacy media, which put up a pretense of neutrality. The liberals and leftists still absorb the legacy media, which is 24-7 anti-Trump and anti-conservative. The incessant propaganda, even if their audience is no more than one-third of the nation (higher on the West Coast, Colorado, Illinois, Minnesota, and Northeast), motivates them to turn out in big numbers.
48 posted on 12/16/2025 6:16:40 AM PST by Wallace T.
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To: MtnClimber
Mark Twain's Distinctly American criminal class
49 posted on 12/16/2025 6:17:55 AM PST by ComputerGuy
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To: rdcbn1

The reason DeWine’s Haitian comments will be so demoralizing is because very few prominent Republicans will stand up and declare DeWine’s statements to be unacceptable and extremist.

Meanwhile they will stand up and attack anyone defending white people’s interests as unacceptable and extremist.

Then they will demand that white young man should work hard for and vote for Republican Congressional candidates in 2026.

This is not a workable strategy.


50 posted on 12/16/2025 6:18:30 AM PST by cgbg (The master is nice only when the dog behaves as expected.)
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To: Wallace T.

He was back on Taylor Swift again too. I am no fan of Swift at all myself, but I ignore her.

I think those years of these leftists ganging up on him and making his life miserable with the lies, prosecutions, and cheating him has taken a toll.

Well, most of Hollywood types were fine and friendly with Trump before he became a republican and ran for President. He had been friendly for many years with those people.

Maybe the way they all turned on him was more troubling than a political type that he had no association or friendship with before.


51 posted on 12/16/2025 6:18:35 AM PST by dforest
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To: cgbg

💯


52 posted on 12/16/2025 6:19:49 AM PST by dforest
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To: Hildy

I’m afraid I agree with you, sigh.


53 posted on 12/16/2025 6:22:05 AM PST by volare737 ( Diversity is something to be overcome, not celebrated. )
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To: MtnClimber

Guess congress is waiting for things to get much worse before the get off their ass and decide to help Trump.


54 posted on 12/16/2025 6:26:34 AM PST by Vaduz (?.)
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To: woweeitsme

“Republicans get in control and don’t do a damn thing...”

Oh, they do things, just not things for us. They do what it takes to stay in “The Club”.


55 posted on 12/16/2025 6:49:05 AM PST by SaxxonWoods (Annnd....I voted for this too!)
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To: 9YearLurker

Supposedly it’s an NY Post summary of a summary of a story in Vanity Fair.

It’s intriguing that the chief of staff, who has been quite tight-lipped all year, is suddenly spilling the tea.

IF she actually spilled all that tea. It *is* Vanity Fair after all...


56 posted on 12/16/2025 6:49:23 AM PST by Old West Conservative
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To: ohioman

“Hey. It’s another pearl clutcher in a time of war.”
***********************************************
What’s worse? A pearl clutcher or someone with ostrich mentality?


57 posted on 12/16/2025 6:52:53 AM PST by sunny bonobo
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To: Vaduz

With the filibuster in place there is no normal way to get Trumps EOs into law because it takes 60 Senate votes and there are not enough Senate Republicans. More EOs will need to be put into a budget reconciliation bill like they have done before. That only takes a majority in the House and Senate to pass.


58 posted on 12/16/2025 6:59:17 AM PST by MtnClimber (For photos of scenery, wildlife and climbing, click on my screen name for my FR home page.)
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To: Old West Conservative

With Trump slapping a $10B suit on the Beeb, I’d doubt VF would want to play around with the Ice Maiden.


59 posted on 12/16/2025 7:03:03 AM PST by 9YearLurker
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To: MtnClimber

I personally voted for obliteration and draining of the whole frickin temple, so..

If one party wants to die off, that’s one less party to obliterate and drain from the Swamp.


60 posted on 12/16/2025 7:05:38 AM PST by delchiante
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