I think the Repugs in Congress are frightened of the base they created.

[redstatebluegirl]

If you read some of the crazy right wing sites you will see that they plan a total revolution if Trump is removed from office. I know many of them sit in the basement in their shorts eating cheetos watching fox, but there is a faction of them that are heavily armed and really angry. I see them all the time where I live.

Plus, there are so few republicans out there other than the 35 percent of the trumpers they can't win without them. Yes they have gerrymandered districts but even some of those are in danger if they go after trump.

[AlexSFCA]

1. the base is getting split

thanks to bannon/trump feud. I’d say we are talking about less than 20% hardcore trump backers. Those folks typically don’t protest on the streets. The only ones who do are the nazis and last time it didn’t work well for them.

[YessirAtsaFact]

2. Its pretty obvious

That the repugnant goons in Congress are afraid of crazies challenging them in the primaries.

Physical violence? My money is on the National Guard if that happens.

[samnsara]

3. well we are armed as well...with facts and morality and ethics..

...and let them up rise. You know they are gonna end up and jail...and felons cant vote

[unblock]

4. the gerrymandered districts are the problem. republicans worry they're not crazy enough.

those gerrymandered districts are safely republican, but that just means the republican primary is the real battle.

that's why republicans keep getting ever more wacky rather than returning to the center.

[Baitball Blogger]

5. They don't know how to control them.

It's like they unleashed a fury that they know will eventually turn on them.

[CrispyQ]

6. They've lost control of their party.

This is what happens when you court the zealots, loons, & racists.

[TlalocW]

7. What's that idiom?

To have a tiger by the tail? You have no choice to hang on otherwise you'll be eaten. That's what republicans have done.

TlalocW

[RandomAccess]

8. I think it's highly ironic about the base they created

They hyper-gerrymandered so many of their districts so they could be impervious to Democratic votes and work for that goal of One Party Rule they all crave (since Gingrich if not before).

NOW, however, they find themselves trapped by those same hyper-gerrymandered districts because they know if they don't toe the line with that base, they'll be primaryed (primaried??), a contest most would likely lose.

It's also profoundly anti-American:

* Trying to achieve one-party rule
* Overturning the principle of one person/ one vote
* Creating a structure where roughly 1/3 of the population becomes the dominant political force, whose agenda is honored and upheld over that of the majority of Americans
* Besides, they're fascists, which is by definition anti-American. They just want to break things (see linked article for what I think is the best description / explanation of Trump's true base).

[Binkie The Clown]

9. We make our own monsters, then fear them for what they show us about ourselves.

― Mike Carey

[dawg]

10. 35% is way over half of 50%.

What, in a national context, is a wacky backwards minority, actually makes up the majority of Republican primary voters.

It's a big problem.

And yes, they created it themselves.

[maxsolomon]

11. Many Republican Pols ARE that Base

the Tea Party zealots in Congress, Sens. Lee of UT, Cotton of OK, hell, Rand Paul, KY. They believe the same bullshit their propagandized voters do.