Why do people keep saying the GOP is in shambles? It hasn't deviated one iota from it's purpose of keeping the country so riled up that they don't notice the unending transfer of wealth and power from the working to the ruling class. In what way has their ability to do this been diminished? Because things got a little kooky and some of their older party members got spooked? Because Donald Trump said Mitch McConnell is a saggy turd? The enormous reservoir of capital sitting behind the GOP hasn't blinked once during all this supposed upheaval.
Because things got a little kooky and some of their older party members got spooked? Because Donald Trump said Mitch McConnell is a saggy turd?
Yes. They mean the party is divided more evenly between the pro-Trump and anti-Trump factions at the moment. Of course the GOP always gets their shit together in time to pass bills that benefit the ruling class at the people's expense, and to crush the Democrats like they almost always do. Dems are (intentionally) making the same miscalculation they made in 2009.
I do believe that that split exists, but I don't think it's nearly as big of a deal to Republicans as liberals are trying to make it out to be. The GOP had a slam dunk way of shutting Trump out of the political system by impeaching him, and they chose not to. I honestly believe that they just don't give a shit about whether he runs for president or not, because it doesn't make that much of a difference, given that their goal is mainly obstructing any sort of progress that might weaken the influence of capital. Biden is proof that you don't need a Republican president for that.
The schism is that the GOP leadership is badly tailing the radical energy of the party's mass base, who Trump embodies. They aren't "anti-Trump", but they disagree with him on certain specific positions and are willing to jettison him when he ceased being useful.
The mass base hate and distrust the party leadership, but since they literally believe the Democrats are satanic communist pedophiles they're not going to stop voting Republican. They might stay home in protest for one particular election, but two years later they will swallow their hatred of the reptiles and pull the lever for R again.
Its the divergent interests between the elites and the masses. The elites have an interest in maintain some level of stability and not raising the temperature beyond a certain degree. The masses don't give a shit about that and would love nothing more than a military coup that executes all their perceived enemies.
If narrowing the margin in the house and winning almost every senate race to the point that you’re essentially guaranteed to take back both chambers in the midterms isn’t shambles, I don’t know what is.
Why do people keep saying the GOP is in shambles? It hasn't deviated one iota from it's purpose of keeping the country so riled up that they don't notice the unending transfer of wealth and power from the working to the ruling class. In what way has their ability to do this been diminished? Because things got a little kooky and some of their older party members got spooked? Because Donald Trump said Mitch McConnell is a saggy turd? The enormous reservoir of capital sitting behind the GOP hasn't blinked once during all this supposed upheaval.
Yes. They mean the party is divided more evenly between the pro-Trump and anti-Trump factions at the moment. Of course the GOP always gets their shit together in time to pass bills that benefit the ruling class at the people's expense, and to crush the Democrats like they almost always do. Dems are (intentionally) making the same miscalculation they made in 2009.
I do believe that that split exists, but I don't think it's nearly as big of a deal to Republicans as liberals are trying to make it out to be. The GOP had a slam dunk way of shutting Trump out of the political system by impeaching him, and they chose not to. I honestly believe that they just don't give a shit about whether he runs for president or not, because it doesn't make that much of a difference, given that their goal is mainly obstructing any sort of progress that might weaken the influence of capital. Biden is proof that you don't need a Republican president for that.
The schism is that the GOP leadership is badly tailing the radical energy of the party's mass base, who Trump embodies. They aren't "anti-Trump", but they disagree with him on certain specific positions and are willing to jettison him when he ceased being useful.
The mass base hate and distrust the party leadership, but since they literally believe the Democrats are satanic communist pedophiles they're not going to stop voting Republican. They might stay home in protest for one particular election, but two years later they will swallow their hatred of the reptiles and pull the lever for R again.
Its the divergent interests between the elites and the masses. The elites have an interest in maintain some level of stability and not raising the temperature beyond a certain degree. The masses don't give a shit about that and would love nothing more than a military coup that executes all their perceived enemies.
If narrowing the margin in the house and winning almost every senate race to the point that you’re essentially guaranteed to take back both chambers in the midterms isn’t shambles, I don’t know what is.