“If Ryan stays, the GOP will get nothing done and will lose the house next year.”
In my humble opinion, Ryan will not survive this crash and burn. On losing the house, I also think you are wrong. People know the Democrats have nothing left in their quiver and their bench is non-existent, period. What I see is a major shift in many, many primary challenges from our deep bench against those who have shown their deep state alliances are stronger than their supposed alliance to those they are sworn to represent.
Ever since seeing David Brat dispense with one of the biggest RINO’s of all time, Cantor, while being incredibly outspent. Brat did it almost totally on message and a plan to get the message directly to the voters. For those who do not know, Brat’s total expenditures for his campaign were less than one establishment supporter steak dinner thrown by Cantor. He beat the machine badly and now being a visible leader against the machine, will be followed and aspired to for guidance of the next wave of populist instead of party candidates.
No, GOP will not lose the house. As angry as some people might be with Republicans, it’s clear they are the only ones even remotely trying to actually serve America.
The veil is off the Dems as anti-American, anti-middle class tyrants. They won’t win again for a long time.
Now, quickly harken back to 2006. Why/how did the GOP lose? They lost because the Dems DRAMATICALLY tried to appear to be sympathetic to middle class values. Jim Webb, for ex., won a senate seat because he was RECRUITED AS A FORMER MILITARY GUY. If you recall, they went out of their way to get vets so as to say, “Hey, we’re patriotic too.” They didn’t run in 2006 on nationalized health care. Barack Obama in 2008 (even though we knew he was lying) ran against homosexual marriage, ran on getting out of Iraq (which was popular then) and other more “traditional” messages. Again, we knew he was lying.
So, no, this won’t seriously harm the GOP, especially if they get taxes right.