Ex-GOP Rep. Says Republican Party on 'Demographic Death March' With Embrace of 'Trumpism'

[Yo_Mama_Been_Loggin]

A former Republican congressman has warned the party is walking a "demographic death march" and faces being "wiped out" in American suburbs as a result of "Trumpism."

Ex-Pennsylvania Rep. Charlie Dent told CNN on Monday that GOP leaders were "creating problems" for the membership by "fully embracing Trumpism" for their own advantage. He also said that the party needed to have a debate about what it will look like when President Donald Trump leaves office.

Dent's comments come as Republican leaders in both the Senate and House have rallied around Trump following his impeachment on December 18.

Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell made it clear how GOP congressmen would respond to any impeachment trial, telling reporters he was "not an impartial juror" and slamming the process as a "political exercise."

https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/elections-2020/ex-gop-rep-says-republican-party-on-demographic-death-march-with-embrace-of-trumpism/ar-BBYiZvu?li=BBnb7Kz

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1. that "debate" effectively is the senate trial

the expected senate acquittal will solidify the republican party's image of all-in for donnie.

they will not easily be able to replace that image after an acquittal, particularly if it's an obvious sham trial.


their last real chance to show some other path forward as a party is to have a vocal showing at the trial that stands up in some kind of opposition to donnie.

[bucolic_frolic]

2. A political trial would have no evidence, or give no opportunity to provide any

It's a criminal trial, a Constitutional trial, not a political trial

[Cicada]

3. Replay of CA Governor Pete Wilson

Trailing, desperate Pete Wilson running for re-election decided to bash illegal immigrants. He ran horrible tv ads showing illegal immigrants swarming across a border highway like cockroaches swarming when the light was turned on in the kitchen. Wise Republican pros begged him not to do it, knowing it would doom them in the future. Wilson was re-elected but it marked the end of the a Republican Party in California. The younger voters grew up, started voting, and remembered. Trump is Pete Wilson but on a national scale. When Norte Dame football coach Lou Holtz flew to New Jersey to recruit High school senior Cory Booker. Booker’s high school coach and his wife were there for the interview. At the end Booker’s coach’s wife leaned to her husband and whispered. That kid might be President someday.

[David__77]

4. Yes indeed!

I’ve also thought of that parallel. It’s more effective for them in the short-term than a more McCain or Bush-like approach, and also more costly in the long run.