Capitol Hill Blue Forums Political Issues Politics In General Whither the GOP?

Isn't fighting old white people on hoover rounds like shooting fish in a barrel, as it were?

can't use the preceding words as the NSA has too many tic tacs

however your comment made me think of possibilities .... Gen Flynn is a nut case as are all of Mr Trumps advisors .... how many in the military and other associated departments would it take for the words i can not use to happen? these characters have a vision and it doesn't include you

use your imagination for the how and consider that 30% to 50% of the country would probably support it.

do any of these thugs have the cajones to attempt the words i can not use???? because at this point i think that is all that is lacking

The axis of furious conservative activists and hard-right media that spawned Trump’s nationalist and conspiratorial campaign is determined to complete its hostile takeover of the GOP, win or lose.

Trump’s insistence that the election will be “rigged,” which he again suggested at the debate, has only stoked the specter of a grievance movement that will haunt Republicans for months and years to come — threatening to leave the longtime norms of American politics shattered and Washington paralyzed by his followers’ agitation and suspicion.

“What I’m saying is that I will tell you at the time,” Trump said Wednesday, refusing to say whether he would accept the result of the election as legitimate. “I’ll keep you in suspense.”

The first post-election target for the grievance movement is likely to be House Speaker Paul D. Ryan (R-Wis.), who has drawn Trump’s wrath for not supporting him more fully. Trump’s backers, both inside and outside the House Republican caucus, are already talking about a takedown.

....For top Republicans, the challenges could be staggering in the aftermath of a Trump defeat, as polls show is probable. Their numbers are likely to shrink in both chambers of Congress, and they would have to navigate a Hillary Clinton presidency with constant questions about their loyalties and scorn for any attempts at bipartisan governing.

This election, the conventional wisdom goes, has done tremendous damage to the American body politic, but nowhere is the damage as severe as it is inside the party that nominated the wrecking ball known as Donald Trump. Now the party of Ronald Reagan is being led by a man with no discernible ideological leanings, save for an affinity with some of history’s ugliest. In the face of mounting evidence that Hillary Clinton is set to dominate the electoral map on November 8, Republicans across the right side of the spectrum recognize there’s defeat coming. And behind the scenes, in conversations and closed-door venues—the Hoover gathering was not open to the public—the people who once considered themselves the heart, or at least the head, of the party have begun a very pessimistic reckoning.

‘We Are in for a Pretty Long Civil War’ - Politico.

The thing about Civil Wars is that nobody wins. The division remains even after the war is over.

This may, in fact, just be a continuation of the actual Civil War fought in the 1860s, or at least its echoes - the divides between races, between economic classes, and between rural and urban economies and culture.

Although this is a thread about the Republican party, the Democratic party is not immune: Are Democrats Headed For A Split Even If Clinton Wins? FiveThirtyEight. Both parties need to adjust to a new populace and current reality.