2016 Postmortem
Related: About this forumRomney Isn’t Sure the Republican Party Can Survive
Mitt Romney said in a podcast interview that he didnt know how the Republican party could be put back together after this election.
Whether they can come back together again or not is a darn good question. I happen to think that for that to happen requires a person of unusual skill: a Churchill, an Eisenhower, an individual whos able to step forward, a Reagan, whos able to step forward and bring people together.
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https://politicalwire.com/2016/10/14/romney-isnt-sure-the-republican-party-can-survive/
geek tragedy
(68,868 posts)A few has-beens and newspaper columnists may leave the party, but the vast majority of GOPers feel perfectly at home in a party defined by bigotry and cruelty.
It will survive and persist though gradually declining. Because the decent people in this country will reject it.
OnDoutside
(19,974 posts)OnDoutside
(19,974 posts)if they lose the WH/Senate/House, as it would allow for the necessary conversation/fight/war that will follow Nov 8. If they were to hang onto the House, it might force them to continue the belligerent partisan non-compliance, that has stopped Washington from working. That could well stop the obvious and necessary change that needs to happen within the Repubs.
HAB911
(8,919 posts)KKK types and "centrists", if I may use that term
get the red out
(13,468 posts)Push Democratic candidates more to the left.
HAB911
(8,919 posts)HAB911
(8,919 posts)ScienceIsGood
(314 posts)tblue37
(65,490 posts)That sort of attachment is hardwired into humans by evolution, and it takes a lot of reliance on reason to rise above it.
Unfortunately, being rational isn't easy, whereas reflexively responding to prompts from our reptilian brain is easy and emotionally rewarding.
It usually requires training over years for reason to become the dominant approach to responding to emotionally provocative events and situations. By undermining education in this country while bankrolling propaganda, corporatists and oligarchs have deliberately helped block the development of rational response in the masses.
Freddie
(9,275 posts)After both McCain and Romney lost, the howl heard in the GOP was "we lost because our candidate was not a True Conservative!" They really wanted to run an extreme (even more than usual) far right candidate like Cruz. Instead they got Trump.
After Trump loses, they will of course blame their party for running this one-off "fluke" (to put it mildly). And finally, in 2020, they will get what they want, an off-the-charts extreme right winger on the ticket. And...they will lose in a landslide.
GulfCoast66
(11,949 posts)Cruz.
And went with the most racist. Because that is their most motivating factor.
AmericanActivist
(1,019 posts)news to people here on DU. In this election cycle I have wondered what will happen to the Republican Party? I have never seen the level of public opposition within their Party. This year there are many Republicans who are vocalizing that they will not support Donald; there have been numerous reports of these in the media. I am grateful for all thinking people who refuse to support Don the Con. It seems there should be many more of these Republicans as I cannot fathom anyone supporting Trump. I do believe that people supporting him have been brainwashed by Fox News and are engaged in Group think. I hope, as I have for years, that true Republicans, those who have been called "centrists" will take back the Republican Party and exile the extreme fringe fundamentalists that hijacked the Party years ago. We shall see.
mercuryblues
(14,544 posts)take back the republican party. There simply isn't enough of them. The majority selected Trump by a landslide in the primaries. The R's have been nurturing this monster for decades and now they are shocked that the monsters selected one of their own kind to represent them. This is the BASE, these are the people that republicans rely on to get voted in.
tblue37
(65,490 posts)JHB
(37,163 posts)Your entire campaign fed from the same trough: 47%, "You Built That", etc.
You played footsie with the birther crap because if you openly came out against it you'd lose the votes of the foamers. To attack their pet conspiracy theories would be to attack them, and you wanted their votes. Just a matter of shaking the Etch-A-Sketch after the primaries, right?
You were so sure you'd win, so completely that the polls were 'skewed' (mainly on the strength of 'because you wanted to'), that you didn't even write a concession speech.
And you griped about it later. "People who just want stuff."
Go away Mitt. Your party cast out the Eisenhowers, and Reagan ushered in the party dynamics that have left Trump as the face of your party.