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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsRepublicans who back impeachment can save the country -- and the GOP
Sept. 30, 2019, 4:16 AM EDT
By Sarah Longwell, executive director of Defending Democracy Together
... Ditching Nixon proved to be in the best long-term interests of the party. Abandoning Donald Trump will, as well. The country once again needs a revitalized GOP. Trumpism needs to be exorcized from the party of Lincoln and Reagan ...
https://www.nbcnews.com/think/opinion/republicans-who-back-impeachment-can-save-country-gop-ncna1059896
The view from Romney's planet
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)And some sort of longer range vision than the next election?
struggle4progress
(118,295 posts)A corrupt person might think "I don't have to go down with him" before providing the highest-minded reasons to withdraw support
And a more ethical person might have have higher-minded reasons to withdraw support but in some contexts still say nothing more than "I don't have to go down with him"
guillaumeb
(42,641 posts)is that many in politics and business have a next quarter/next election mindset that obsesses on the immediate and ignores the long range.
Wounded Bear
(58,670 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,356 posts)lindysalsagal
(20,692 posts)Hermit-The-Prog
(33,356 posts)Every trumper should go down with the traitor.
That photo you posted -- look at Moscow Mitch trying to appear to be just another "good ole boy". I despise that selfish, lying, greed-driven rat.
Wounded Bear
(58,670 posts)Germany failed him and didn't deserve to survive.
ffr
(22,670 posts)We can hope, but I think we need to be calling their senators and representatives and screaming at them.
It's so easy too, if not calling, every one of us can write a brief summary on each reps online Contact Page.
eppur_se_muova
(36,271 posts)Maybe the writing is on the wall for the GOP, at last ?
Midnightwalk
(3,131 posts)I dont see a way forward for the republican party.
They have spent years winning elections by denying reality. Evolution is a hoax. Tax cuts pay for themselves. Christians are under attack. People of color are out to take what is yours. Democrats are godless evil socialists.
They have taken these stands publicly for decades.
At the same time they have blasted the country with propaganda. Talk radio drums right wing lies into commuters ears for an hour every day.
The brain washing is so complete that any republican who admits reality is threatened. Used to be just with primaries but now with violence.
How can an honest conservative take back party? Why would anyone honest want to he associated with Rush, Alex Jones, Malkin, Coulter, the Drudge Report, free republic and last but certainly not least the hypocritical evangelists.
Not only is there no possibility of changing the base, no self respecting person would want to be associated with them.
Starting over may be the only option.
Doreen
(11,686 posts)they might have a slight chance of getting back to being center instead of extreme far right assholes.
Wounded Bear
(58,670 posts)The last 'good' Repub was Eisenhower.