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DonViejo

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Fri Dec 15, 2017, 10:56 AM Dec 2017

The Only Hope for Republicans Is Massive Defeat


December 15, 2017 at 8:24 am EST By Taegan Goddard

Michael Gerson: “President Trump and his admirers are not just putting forth an agenda; they are littering the civic arena with deception and cruelty. They are discrediting even the good causes they claim to care about. They are condemning the country to durable social division. In Trump’s GOP, loyalty requires corruption. So loyalty itself must be reconceived.”

“What would weaken the grip of Trump on the GOP? Obviously not moral considerations. The president has crossed line after line of decency and ethics with only scattered Republican bleats of protest. Most of the party remains in complicit silence. The few elected officials who have broken with Trump have become targets of the conservative media complex — savaged as an example to the others.”

“This is the sad logic of Republican politics today: The only way that elected Republicans will abandon Trump is if they see it as in their self-interest. And the only way they will believe it is in their self-interest is to watch a considerable number of their fellow Republicans lose.”

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The Only Hope for Republicans Is Massive Defeat (Original Post) DonViejo Dec 2017 OP
For the sake of the USA, the GOPers have to be defeated Iliyah Dec 2017 #1
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