There has been one man, in my lifetime, who could have pulled it off. Given that, it would have taken an extraordinary circumstance to give Trump the opportunity. That opportunity occurred when the entirety of the DC GOP went all in publicly on the coup 1/7. Had Trump denounced, who I denounced on 1/7, he could have taken the majority of his eighty plus million voters with him. Oh, but what a chance! Trump could have destroyed the GOP. The VERY SAME people who chased Trump out of town are still calling every shot. The Swamp = DC GOP. You are a fool is you think you can reform them. You must blow it up and start with a real second party.
There’s around 50 political parties in the US.
Really there are 2.
I agree - if there was ever a moment to start a new party - 1/7 was the moment.
But I still think it wouldn’t work, even then.
Not all of those 80 plus million Trump voters would follow him to a new party.
Tens of millions of them voted for him simply because he was the Republican. I know plenty of people like that in both parties.
You are losing those knee-jerk party line voters if you try to start a new party.
I think (now that the legal challenge, audits and decertifications seem to be getting nowhere) the only solution is doing what we are doing - clean up the Republican Party:
- do a better job of preventing fraud
- do a better job of weeding out the RINOs
- win back the legislature - with MAGA candidates
- then go after the criminals and finally drain the swamp.
I do think we should stop using the name GOP, which is just a nickname - keep the name Republican, but use MAGA as the nickname.