"The only way this changes is if Democrats take the House. The end."

[Miles Archer]

Joy Reid explains why the GOP will never leave Trump — and the only way we can change America



“This is a Republican Party that is built on resentment and a sense of victimhood, a sense of persecution, almost a persecution complex almost 40 years, 50 years, going back to the Civil Rights movement when they felt persecuted by the world,” Reid explained. “Donald Trump gets that – he gets them – he’s figured it out. He can make them accept anything.”

She went on to say that not only can he make the base of the GOP accept “literally anything,” he could collude with Iran next and the voters would defend it “and so would the elected officials… They all are now for collusion.”

Despite the blatant evidence brought on by the Donald Trump Jr. email, Reid predicts there will be zero action taken by the Republican Party.

“There are no heroes. There will be no heroes,” Reid said. “The only way this changes is if Democrats take the House. The end. If the Republicans control the House of Representatives and the Senate, Donald Trump will sit right there colluding in plain sight and laughing about it because, yes, he can get away with anything.”

http://www.rawstory.com/2017/07/joy-reid-explains-why-the-gop-will-never-leave-trump-and-the-only-way-we-can-change-america/

[Solly Mack]

1. I'll be doing my part.

Vote. Vote. Vote.

Drive people to the polls. Volunteer.

And if no one interferes....maybe we will take the House.

[Mr. Ected]

4. I'm afraid that's a big "if"

At this point, there has been NOTHING done to stem Russian influence on our elections and, most likely, with Republican Congressional support, they may have even expanded their efforts.

Our continued hope that we take back the House in is predicated on winning fair and square.

That seems to be a very naive point of view, knowing what we know.

[Solly Mack]

7. That is what worries me - that big if.

Which is why I added it.

Everything we do depends on that if.

Because no matter how hard we work to get out the vote - unless that IF is removed, there is no winning back anything.

I think you're right about their efforts already being expanded. I believe their efforts never stopped.

[padfun]

10. I agree with you

In fact, I don't see any fair elections coming our way. Democrats will have to get in the trenches and fight dirty or they will surely fail to take the house.

[mreilly]

13. I hate to say it, but...

... it's more than "winning fair and square." It has to be a landslide win for any Democratic candidate; a win so big that nobody can tamper with it. Think of it as the Democrat has to run 70 yards to get a touchdown and the Repig only 30 yards.

That or we get rid of electronic voting machines and utilize paper ballots exclusively. We use them in my state of Massachusetts.

[robbob]

33. I don't see electronic voting machines going away.

I don't think the media even talks about this issue. It is taken as a given that elections are honest and can't be hacked. That's the story they have to sell to John Q Public.

There is too much money to be made selling electronic voting machines, plus whoever controls the ballot box controls the levers of power in the country. They are not going to give up that control without a fight.

[lastlib]

19. Gerrymandering.....

..and voter suppression work against us. Albatross around the neck. We have to work ten times harder than repuglikkkans to overcome that.

[Solly Mack]

20. Yes. Those, too. Another layer of "If".

[MiddleClass]

35. Yes, but you can still win with turnout and preferably a wave

Unfortunately, the earlier football analogy is right if not exaggerated.

It's more like 110 versus 90 yards, over suppression and gerrymandering, wins on the margin.

The biggest thing that caused Hillary the election was voter empathy in 3 states

[dalton99a]

2. GOTV.

[Demsrule86]

3. I would say that depends on Muller's findings.

Somethings can't be tolerated.

[Achilleaze]

5. ...or Mueller brings down the Hammer of Justice like an American Thor

and smashes open the cesspool of republican-russian betrayal of America, as headed by the ignoble republican Draft-Dodger-in-Chief, Comrade Casino.

[C_U_L8R]

6. We may not be able to arrest Trump, presently

But everyone around him certainly looks like they're going down in flames.

[OnDoutside]

8. Trump isn't the biggest problem, it all goes back to the Republicans who could impeach tomorrow.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

26. Only if he gets a blow job.

And, really, who would do that? Gag.

[NewJeffCT]

28. I think hookers and Golden Showers

are a lot worse than getting a blow job, but that's just me. Trump has the magic (R) after his name , though, so unless the hookers giving the golden showers were male, it won't matter.

[briv1016]

32. If it starts to look like one of them may be charged, Donald will issue a pardon

or they'll have a tragic accident. Can't risk any of them flipping on Putin's chosen one.

[betsuni]

9. K&R

[Dustlawyer]

11. She is 100% right!

Just look at Mitch McChinless and tell me he has a bottom as to how low he will go. No one can honestly say there is a limit to what he wouldn't do to stay in power and try to pass his heinous shite

[lib-ruhl]

12. States that allow absentee voting

need to take advantage of it. You receive it in the mail. Sit at your dining room table. Fill it out .Put it back in the mailbox. Done...Can't be any easier than that. No more excuses.

[Hekate]

14. KnR

[mcar]

15. That says it all

GOTV!

[beachbum bob]

16. recent democratic voting numbers in all the special elections have SOARED and no reason to believe

we will see it diminished, if anything, even greater enthusiasm to be expected as american politics swerve away from right wing domination. Its up to each and every one of us to make it happen with our time and/or money.....

even a modest 5-6% swing in districts will give the democrats the House and possibly the Senate in 2018

[klook]

30. Thank you!

It's too easy to say it's all hopeless. We have to work hard to make it happen, but I think historically high Dem turnout, combined with historically low Republican enthusiasm, are a real possibility in Nov. 2018.

[beachbum bob]

31. yep, if we all do our part. Its a given

[gordianot]

17. It really is simple, Joy is correct many refuse to put this into words.

Republicans (modern version last 100 years) also confuse prosecution with persecution a fatal mistake for a wannabe Democracy and sometimes a self fulfilling prophecy.

[DownriverDem]

18. Sadly

I hope I'm wrong, but that won't happen unless more gerrymandered districts are broken up for the 2018 election. This repub party is not the repub party of the Nixon Administration.

[lastlib]

21. It's now the party of Al Capone and Frank Nitti.

[MiddleClass]

36. Gerrymandered districts usually don't go away until the next census/redistricting

Which is in 2020, Democrats only show up for presidential years which this is.

They have to show up in 2018 or we're toast.

That's everybody's mission, get somebody out to vote against Trump

. He won't be on the ballot, yes, but this ability to get policy done is!

[berksdem]

22. she is 100% correct

[MineralMan]

23. We all need to pay attention to this, and act accordingly.

My fear is that we won't do it as a unified party and we'll continue to lose.

[Cigar11]

24. TRUE!

[JHan]

25. On point as usual

[bucolic_frolic]

27. They suppress the vote and allow the hacking

If that doesn't work they suppress free speech

It's all about power

[lunasun]

29. Voter suppression gerrymandering foreign manipulation no unification in the party with party poopers

not voting at all and more rw propaganda , vote recruitment to whites to join the resentful and paranoid republicans and cash to make sure they vote. Does the party even have candidates or the money to go after all these seats ?? It's only a little over a year away. Even if trump goes I don't think repukes will jump ship of the party. I will do my part as I did last time in 16 to gotv.

[MiddleClass]

34. Exactly what I'm thinking, to get their utopia, pick a course, they've got to ride it to the end

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I think when they see the collapse. There will run for the lifeboats.

The only chance to get something done, would be healthcare disguised as a lifeboat.

Takeover of the house is required for impeachment