Republicans have come to a crossroads - Trump or the Republican Party?

[kentuck]

They must make a moral decision. They must make the right decision. They cannot afford to be wrong.

They will decide what type of country we should have in the future. It is about all of us. United we stand, divided we fall.

In every war, there is a decisive moment in a decisive battle that determines the course for the rest of the war.

This is it for Republicans.

[Hortensis]

1. I think they all made or slid into those decisions long ago. The question

now for elected Republicans is if they have the guts to continue with their leadership's sedition as the going gets a lot tougher and more personal. More hand-to-hand as opposed to aerial judicial and electoral bombing and sending media assassins out to knife opponents in the back.

[kentuck]

2. It's going to get a lot tougher.

I agree.

[Hortensis]

3. Loyalty to the Republican Party, old image, was always a

complete defense no matter what they did. Still is for by far most conservative voters, but they're only a third or so of the total electorate.

I'm imagining some of the feckless, those who take facile pride in being above and ignorant of politics, in that DC stadium getting unsought input from the boos coming from all around them.

[Joe941]

4. Nope. That decision was made years ago.

Tired of things like these keep popping up. Goppers have decided who they are/were years ago. Also there are no new lows for trump and no more revelations into his character based on his daily garbage. We know the situation and we haven't learned anything new for a very long time.

[retread]

5. "They must make a moral decision. " Repugs???? Any "decision" will be based on

self-preservation and/or financial gain.

[Afromania]

6. It almost doesn't matter anymore. They have been outed for what we knew they are.

Every lie, front and pretense they put up to do what they've done was thrown away to protect trump and the ability to appoint unqualified nutjobs to federal judgeship's. The republicans operated in a bubble of whataboutism and religious conservative doublespeak that they can no longer use. They've de-legitimatized themselves with anybody that thinks beyond the bridge of their nose. Their long term plans for screwing with the Constitution is derailed and all of their dirt is now public knowledge.

We'll never, in a million years, convert any of the true believers to our cause. Those people are lost, lost to brainwashing, lost to their zealotry, lost to their greed, lost to their myopic un-inquisitiveness lost to their hate. Its those people republican party is embracing to remain in power. Sadly it's just enough people in just the right places to make things hard for everybody else.

In any case, the gop isn't going to do the right thing here because they will always have just enough of that hateful base to screw things up.

[beachbumbob]

7. the decision that matters is the one that leads to power and right now that DOES NOT

include removing trump or even holding a trial

[kentuck]

8. Power and greed lead to a road to ruin...

in my opinion.

[beachbumbob]

9. yep, buts always been about power and greed

the fact is, this trump guy has now made it clear to a great majority of America, the underlying evil and corruption of the upper .01% who control our lives daily.

[kentuck]

10. I don't disagree...

There is a battle going on.

[beachbumbob]

11. most people don't know who they are battling

[kentuck]

12. Eventually, they will come to realize...

...that they are battling themselves.

[beachbumbob]

13. so true. Case in point, a friend moaning about his plight in life. In debt, living paycheck to

paycheck. I suggested the problems all come from his actions of buying stuff he could not afford, trying to live a lifestyle way beyond his means. He looked clueless when I brought this up.

He never did get it as most americans do not either.

[no_hypocrisy]

14. I admit I was naive.

One tax cut, one USSC justice, and a smattering of federal judges and then the Republicans would throw him under the bus.

Boy, was I wrong.

[gibraltar72]

15. Will it be tougher than choosing Trump over America??