If we pull off a 'trifecta', next year, will the GOP reform, or double (or more) down?

[Siwsan]

Losing the White House, Senate, and the House remaining under Democratic control would send a message to rational, sane people. I'm not sure this will be the case with the GOP.

But, the truth be told, more than wondering about them, I worry about their cult and what their reaction could be. The very people who should be responsible enough to plea, to them, for peace and calm are the very ones who might just stir things up, even more.

[redstatebluegirl]

1. The problem will be Trump and his minions.

Trump will not go away until he succumbs to old age, and as they say only the good die young.

[Eyeball_Kid]

2. The SDNY and the NY prosecutors will have their say. n/t

[Siwsan]

3. Hopefully trump* will be preoccupied with massive legal entanglements

But his minions - yea - I really worry about them. I have several cousins, in that category, but am in touch with only one. The disconnect with reality that we see in him is pretty alarming. He's retired, in his 70's, and spends all of his time either watching Fox "news" or sitting at the library, monopolizing one of their computers so he can gather even more disinformation.

[TheRealNorth]

4. Of course they will double down

The Republican base doesn't operate on logic, it operates on emotion (fear, faith, greed, and hate).

[jcgoldie]

5. I think once the Trump trainwreck is complete

They will try to recoup some actual conservative ideas besides 24/7 blatant racism. They seemed to do much better over the past 30 years since uncle Ronnie when they kept their racism in dog whistle form.

[sandensea]

6. I'd say double down

It worked for them in 2010, and very much fits with their utter shamelessness.

[inwiththenew]

7. Did they reform after the 2006 & 2008 loses?

I'd argue they came back worse than ever with all the Tea Party bs in 2010.

[Johnny2X2X]

8. If we win all 3, use it to cement Democracy in place

Do what the Reps would do except in favor of Democracy not against it. Ram through legislation that protects voting rights, that mitigates campaign finance, and that guarantees free elections.

That's what's at the heart of the GOP, the voters no longer like their ideas, so instead of coming up with new ideas they decided to get rid of Democracy. Dems should take away that option for them altogether, and then they can either bend to the will of the people or go extinct.

[zaj]

9. Double down.

They needed to reform in 2012, but they doubled down then. The wealthy need the average GOP voter to have energy. Refrorm saps that. So more right wing propaganda designed to stoke misguided but potent outrage.

[JHB]

10. The only thing that will make them reform is sustained complete loss

The NeverTrumpers will try to repeat what their forerunners in the 60s did, when the National Review-types sidelined the leadership of the John Birch Society to be the face of conservatism, but softly enough that the JBS rank and file would not balk at falling in line behind them rather than vote for anyone to the left of Attila the Hun.

They might pull it off, but then again the GOP base has been habituated toward punishing anyone they see as slackers or compromisers or otherwise of insufficient ideological correctness.

And if they do pull it off, they'll want to go back to "normal", by which they mean the Bush administration circa 2003.

They have to lose, lose, lose, for maybe 10 years or more, to disabuse them of the idea that all they have to do is brazen it out, just wait out any losses, and put themselves back in the driver's seat at the first opportunity.

[Bayard]

11. Obstruction all the way

Any way that they can.

[The Genealogist]

12. I expect them to change about as much as i expect the sun to come up in the west.

They think their authoritation christofascism is perfect. They arent goimg to change.