As stated previously, I'm an independent. I personally a strong two party system is good for the country, at least to a point. To be clear though, I've never been a fan of Trump, even before he ran for office. But, not going into that here.
It appears to me that Trump (who claimed to be a Democrat most of his life) has succeeded in dividing the Republican party between those who support his dogma and those that favor a more, shall we say moderate, approach.
The end effect of this schism, is that the Republican party may not be able to rally enough support to unify against Democrat opponents. Don't even have to be split 50/50, just enough for each sect to be a minority. I think Mitch realizes this. I doubt someon this board do, and are thereby contributing to the demise of the right wing (I did NOT say right thing).
Maybe that's Trump's plan, who knows. In any event, I think he and his compardres have crippled, if not at least but the Republican Party in deep kimshee for a few years politically. Not to mention, who knows who controls the party funds.
Trump's supporters should thank him for that.
Originally Posted by reddog1951
You may be right, as a matter of fact, I know you are right that Trumps actions have caused "some Republicans" to rethink their connection to the party but as I posted, a poll was taken by a well regarded pollster and he found that 91% of the people that voted for Trump, said they would do it again and not because they agreed with a handful of idiots that caused this schism but because they still believe in what he has done and wanted to do.
But the over riding question IMHO, in the coming years, is will the majority of Americans like what's coming or will they flee the Democrat party and don't discount the schism that I believe is coming in the Democrat party which I believe will put to shame what is happening to the Republican party. The Republican party is about a person, the policy beliefs are pretty much still there whereas the policy beliefs of the Democrats are yet to be rolled out for the American people to consider.
Remember many of the people that voted for Biden freely admit he wasn't their choice and Kamala Harris sure as hell wasn't their choice as we saw in the primaries. So now we'll have a front row seat to see what unbridled immigration, re-imposition of job killing regulations, Green New deal cost that will raise energy costs, higher taxes when the Democrats figure out that taxing Billionaires isn't going to raise the trillions they will need to pay for everything they want.
Everybody loved Obama until they didn't and he lost over 1,000 legislative seats that led to the rise of a populist like Trump. What goes around, comes around.