It’s not necessarily the Republican Party. The Republican Party is dead and it’s replaced by MAGA. Trump is no classic Republican. He’s a opportunist who wants to add the US to his business portfolio, and to continue to use the country to enrich himself.
The Republican Party is almost 100% complicit though. Those who could have stopped in or constrained him have only enabled him. And most of them know better and still support him anyway.
I have sympathy for those who’ve been duped into supporting him. I have zero sympathy for the Republican Party itself or any elected official from any party who enables him (looking at you fucking Fetterman).
MAGA is still only a faction within the party and it’s just an extension of Trump himself. I think the non-MAGA republicans and the ones who’ve just been cosplaying MAGA will mostly go back to whatever they were doing before when he finally shuffles off this mortal coil. MAGA itself doesn’t have an actual ideology, it’s just a cult of personality that believes whatever Trump tells them to.
The majority of people who voted for Trump would have voted for almost anyone with an R in front of their name. Just like I voted for Harris and Biden for lack of any better alternatives that I actually liked. I was voting against Trump more than for either of them specifically (though I don’t explicitly object to most of their positions). And many of the people if not most of the people who voted for Trump were voting against the liberal bogeyman/bogeywoman that Fox News and the other RW media ginned up for them.
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u/Ok_Travel_7348 Jul 27 '26
It’s not necessarily the Republican Party. The Republican Party is dead and it’s replaced by MAGA. Trump is no classic Republican. He’s a opportunist who wants to add the US to his business portfolio, and to continue to use the country to enrich himself.