“Can we actually expel people from the party?”
Impy knows better than me.
[I’ll offer my uninformed opinion however on next post.]
[Impy knows better, but ...]
They drummed out that KKK man, Senator Byrd, from the DNC. No wait, the DNC adored the KKK man past the year 2000. But the ‘G’ OP drummed out another KKK guy. It can be done, but actually, we need to primary Cornyn. According to Beck, he’s the money machine of the GOP establishment.
The best way to do it is to get control of the party chair. That’s ususually the spoils of the GOP president.
“Thrown out of the party” in general, um no I don’t see any way to do that to anyone.
A legislator could be thrown out of his chamber’s GOP conference/caucus.
But it never happens. In countries with the parliamentary system it happens all the time, 1 minor scandal and a guy is kicked out and forced to sit as an Independent.
In NY you had Dede Scuzzobma, the liberal RINO who ran for Congress drop out and endorse the democrat and the NY Assembly Republicans still didn’t kick her out, they didn’t even take away the minor leadership position that she held! She rewarded them by quiting it herself and then endorsing the democrat who ran for her seat when she retired!