Posted on 04/15/2021 2:54:22 AM PDT by cotton1706
Taken together, the groups allow Trump to exert maximum influence over the party and its direction in not just the coming months but future years. And while the groups’ main goal will, undoubtedly, be to position to Trump to walk to the 2024 Republican nomination if he decides to pursue it, there are other reverberations — whether planned or not — from what is happening here.
The establishment wing of the Republican Party, with McConnell at its head, is trying to move along from Trump. McConnell slammed Trump for his role in the January 6 US Capitol riot (although he voted against convicting Trump on impeachment charges over his role). An outside group aligned with McConnell just endorsed Murkowski in Alaska.
The problem with that is two-fold: 1) Trump has zero interest in being moved on from and 2) The GOP base still sees Trump as its unquestioned leader.
The construction of Trump Inc. in the political space is evidence that the former President (and his many minions, hangers-on and family members) are not only in this for the long haul but have absolutely no problem in building an infrastructure designed to marginalize the establishment’s pillars of influence. What Trump is doing will force many major donors (and plenty of small-dollar donors too) to decide between giving to Trumpworld or the RNC as well as the various other establishment groups and committees that have always been the vessels through which conservative money flows.
And that is a BIG problem for the Republican establishment.
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It is quite apparent that MAGA Americans who identify as Republicans can’t elect anybody to anything.
What’s missing are patriotic Democrats who love their country but who benefit from unions and health plans which are not investor-owned.
See post #48.
There is no “we” waiting for anything. There is just you, a frustrated far left operative who is getting his butt kicked.
There are no more political solutions new party or not.
Hmmmm....to whom to donate? Self declared biden-republiscums, or Trump and Trump candidates? Such a tough choice.
That could very well be true, hopefully something happens to forestall that option, but you expand the Supreme Court and make millions of illegals into voters and every liberal fantasy in the world will be enacted....
Split in two portions.
Portion A 5%, portion B 95%.
Conspiracy theory.
Donald Trump IS the base, not the deep state RINOs.
“shadow party”
Pfft
NO! Donald Trump’s party IS the Republican Party.
There is no chance with a new party. People change very slowly. The passionate and involved (small%) would be bled away and the new party & the Republican party would both lose. Basically a new party is the best rescue for the Left who are busy hemorrhaging support and would otherwise lose many races..
So says an old man....
LOL. Your antennae are not functioning. I am neither just a realist rather than a person weaving an impossible dream.
A squishy fool comment from you.
It’s not a shadow GOP. It’s a sunlight GOP. From which swamp dwellers will scatter.
Keep fooling yourself; it hurts no one else.
Fregards.
4 years from now MAGA will be dead, the GOP-E in charge and we will be f’d. Thanks non new party losers....
Just how do you propose to measure winners/losers?
Since you already claim to be a member of a bunch of losers, I'll give you the opportunity to define winners/losers in the next 4 years.
Tell me how we will measure it, and I've been known to bet on anything.
One thing, any money I bet on FR it's understood that the loser pays the agreed amount to FR, not to the other person.
We have some honorable people that follow through on bets that have been lost on FR.
The next move is yours, mister bettor.
They are walking down a dead end alley.
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