Every time i see an ad by the Lincoln Project or Republican Voters Against Trump I have a bit of wry chuckle and I think that these people aren’t so naive as to think that you can do away with Trump and return to the republican party of old. These new projects are going against 56 years of republican history. During that 56 years republicans traded on white fears for political gain. Today’s republicans didn’t have to be as explicit as southern democratic racists were. They had the dog whistles and codes words well rehearsed. Words like “integration”, “busing”, the “black panthers”, people of color), and “white flight” were all they needed to say to get white suburbanites to vote for them. And it worked until the whites became a minority…
Now the hard yards start, people who were complicit in the rise of the type of politics that allowed trump to win need to have a serious look at what they have wrought. You cut off the head (trump) you still have a pretty good sting in the tail (angela s king in GA, and lauren bobert in CO) among others. Several of them will win, being able to spew the shyte of trumpism without trump being present. A good long, hard look at what the republicans have become is in order. Can the republicans appeal to Americans who aren’t the same color as they are , the young voters who they had ignored for years. Their base is shrinking, they can’t or won’t do anything about it. They just hope to do the minimum possible to get back to respectibility, and everything will turn out fine.
NO IT WON’T!
You are unelectible to large parts of the American public! Until you are willing to make root and branch changes in how you deport yourselves as a political party, you will end up remembering the old joke: How is being a republican like birthing elephants? It takes a whole lot of screaming and it takes 3 years to produce results.