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The people who love Trump are angry, vengeful people who will primary anybody who gets out of line. So, yeah, that's enough. And it is grassroots because the spineless GOP has let it go that way. They thought they could absorb the Tea Party and instead it absorbed them.
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$tevie wrote: They thought they could absorb the Tea Party and instead it absorbed them.
They thought they could absorb Trump.
McConnell: Trump ‘will not change the Republican Party’
By Mark Hensch - 05/31/16
“My view is that Donald Trump will not change the Republican Party,” he told USA Today for an article published Tuesday.
“[It is] America’s right-of-center-party. If he brings in new followers, that’s great, and well worth the effort, but he will not change the Republican Party.”
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Sarcany wrote:
[quote=$tevie]They thought they could absorb the Tea Party and instead it absorbed them.
They thought they could absorb Trump.
McConnell: Trump ‘will not change the Republican Party’
By Mark Hensch - 05/31/16
“My view is that Donald Trump will not change the Republican Party,” he told USA Today for an article published Tuesday.
“[It is] America’s right-of-center-party. If he brings in new followers, that’s great, and well worth the effort, but he will not change the Republican Party.”
They weren't very absorbent.
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Sarcany wrote:
[quote=$tevie]They thought they could absorb the Tea Party and instead it absorbed them.
They thought they could absorb Trump.
McConnell: Trump ‘will not change the Republican Party’
By Mark Hensch - 05/31/16
“My view is that Donald Trump will not change the Republican Party,” he told USA Today for an article published Tuesday.
“[It is] America’s right-of-center-party. If he brings in new followers, that’s great, and well worth the effort, but he will not change the Republican Party.”
Wow, what a spectacular miscalculation.
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AllGold wrote:
[quote=Sarcany]
[quote=$tevie]They thought they could absorb the Tea Party and instead it absorbed them.
They thought they could absorb Trump.
McConnell: Trump ‘will not change the Republican Party’
By Mark Hensch - 05/31/16
“My view is that Donald Trump will not change the Republican Party,” he told USA Today for an article published Tuesday.
“[It is] America’s right-of-center-party. If he brings in new followers, that’s great, and well worth the effort, but he will not change the Republican Party.”
Wow, what a spectacular miscalculation.
He and millions of others, including yours truly, made the same error.
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It's the same mistake that Hindenburg made with Hitler.
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The same Chamberlain also made with Hitler. It was partly a class miscalculation, a untitled outsider can't possibly supplant the ruling class. The mistake both political parties made about Trump.
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Not that comparison again. 45 is not like that other psychopath, he is too old and not at all interested in actual politics to form another party. Just take him to the rally. He'd need someone else, someone like a Newt, to get him to that next level.
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mrbigstuff wrote:
Not that comparison again. 45 is not like that other psychopath, he is too old and not at all interested in actual politics to form another party. Just take him to the rally. He'd need someone else, someone like a Newt, to get him to that next level.
The comparison is to the past and how the GOP treated Trump for the last four years. In case you missed it, Trump was President of the United States and had the GOP in his thrall.
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$tevie wrote:
[quote=mrbigstuff]
Not that comparison again. 45 is not like that other psychopath, he is too old and not at all interested in actual politics to form another party. Just take him to the rally. He'd need someone else, someone like a Newt, to get him to that next level.
The comparison is to the past and how the GOP treated Trump for the last four years. In case you missed it, Trump was President of the United States and had the GOP in his thrall.
I was here. But I was also paying attention. Do you really think he has the energy to pull off what that other psycho did a century ago? Really?
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