Post-2020, Where Republicans Go from Here

Townhall.com ^ | November 21, 2020 | Ted Harvey

[BobL]

“That could be part of the cheat, where they increase the Republican votes but less so than they increase the Democrat votes.”

That certainly would make sense...from their standpoint.

[Jan_Sobieski]

You may be correct. I don’t know all the roadblock laws they have set up. Thi is important to understand

[Jan_Sobieski]

Constitutional Party: Anti-Abortion, Senate and House term limits,
Free markets, anti monopoly, Deregulation, America First, pro-Union,
anti government unions, Anti-deep State, anti socialism,
Party of nuclear family values, Education reform,
No more teachers unions, Breakup of Technocracy monopolies
free speech, immigration reform, closed borders,
Welfare reform, incentivized work skills, No More Lockdowns,
NO GREAT RESET!

[chimera]

No matter the final outcome, the Republican coalition is stronger than ever.

If the final outcome is we lose (and it looks that way at this point), I don't see that as an indicator of strength. And as far as the "stronger than ever" part goes, if the last four years are any indication, it was never very strong, so "stronger than ever" probably doesn't mean much. I mean, we had a candidate who stood up to the swamp creatures, who did the right things the right way at the right time, defeated an "unbeatable" candidate, yet faced opposition for all his time in office from some of the most prominent members of the party he represented. During the 2016 campaign, you had supposedly conservative commentators and writers putting out nothing but "all hate-Trump all the time". There are some still doing it. That's not much of a "coalition", strong or weak. Who wants to work to strengthen that?

[rhinohunter]

Gone are the days of establishment politics

Huh???

How can you possibly make that claim?

I see no reason to believe that -- once Trump is gone -- that the GOPe will do anything other than revert to the old playbook.

And when it does you will see them take a drubbing like no other political party ever has...

[SuperLuminal]

"The fraud must be exposed or we are finished."

"Post-2020, Where Republicans Go from Here"

If the coup succeeds, the only destination for non-communist Republicans will be reeducation interment camps and/or ovens...

Bank on it!

[FormerFRLurker]

Bookmark

[dynachrome]

“Constitutional Republic Party”

Would that be mocked as CRP = crap or creep?

I would suggest “American Constitution Party”

ACP for .45 acp

[MinorityRepublican]

A fair number of Trump’s base will not vote in the elections after this one. They’ll just go hunting and fishing instead.

[jersey117]

Not McCarthy?

[Reily]

I am sure that is true. However if you surrender the field to the Rats its foolish to think you’ll be quietly left alone to do those activities.

[jjotto]

Cheney is chair of the House Republican Conference, which is essentially the GOP caucus. It’s considered the #3 job in the House GOP.

[Jan_Sobieski]

Sounds great!

[MinorityRepublican]

Millions of Trump voters are standing back. Standing by. If Joe Biden pulls a Bill Clinton and moves toward to the center, then everything will be fine. If hard core Socialists are able to manipulate Joe Biden into enacting the Green New Deal and confiscating firearms, then there will be a problem.

[dfwgator]

That’s up to us, hold every Republican accountable for where they stood with Trump, if they didn’t replace them.

It’s a much better approach than trying to start a third party.

[Reily]

Agree !

However I haven’t seen any indication that he will move to the middle. If you read Jonathan Turley’s (a Rat!) column in Town Hall it’s the opposite.
https://townhall.com/tipsheet/katiepavlich/2020/11/17/turley-warns-the-biden-transition-team-just-took-an-ominous-turn-n2580217

[Trump_Triumphant]

I will never go back to the establishment, swamp infested Republican party that capitulates to our enemies and causes perpetual wars with countries we never even heard of before. If the GOP doesn’t remain an America First, MAGA party, then they’ll never see another vote from me.

[JPJones]

Constitutional Republic Party.”

A third party, splits the “republican vote” and will ensure dem victories across the board for the foreseeable future.

[Dr. Sivana]

You may be correct. I don’t know all the roadblock laws they have set up. This is important to understand

It varies from state to state. The first one has to do with ballot access. As the last major Third Party effort showed, Ross Perot had to spend months and LOTS of his own money JUST to get on the ballot in 50 states. There is a reason why Libertarian Ron Paul and Socialist Bernie Sanders both sought a major party nomination.

Besides the top level, many cities have minimum representation for each party (!), and the Dems responded in some of the northern cities (e.g. Hartford) by using Farther Left parties (e.g. "Working Families Party") to make the City Council even MORE left than it would be otherwise.

Heck I am doubtful that Lincoln with the then new Republican Party would have won in 1860 if it had been a two party race. If you look at the map below, the pink represents all the areas Lincoln won with UNDER 50%. Now with instant media and constant polling there is no way to have that kind of split. A new Ross Perot wanna be would have to get enough of a percentage (as he had before he got weird) to become the obvious alternative to one of the other two. But even if Perot had gotten in, he'd have no Congress who would feel obliged to cooperate with him.

Now you could spend a lot of money and effort to start at the bottom and work up. There are a handful of Libertarian state legislators out west. If a movement right party ever got traction, the Republicans would quickly adapt by co-opting the positions. Our system by design is supposed to buffer seismic shifts. Widespread fixed elections does away with all that.

[Jan_Sobieski]

Except for a couple congressmen and senators, they are all Democrats. We broke the corrupt Whigs. We can break the corrupt Republicans