The future of the Republican party?

[Artemus]

So what will happen to the Republican Party after this election? Will it fracture? Will they distance themselves from the radical right? Will they make minimal changes (like adding super-delegates to try to avoid another Trump) but basically continue business as usual?

Please discuss. I really don't know what to expect.

 

[untermensche]

The two parties are entrenched.

The Republicans might evolve a little but the party isn't going anywhere.

The game has been set up so only those with a lot of money can play.

If money is removed from the process the two party stranglehold might end. Not before.

 

[T.G.G. Moogly]

The only realignment between the two major parties of any consequence over the last 50 years has been that the republican party has become the refuge of racists, religious supremacists and homophobes. The only question is where those groups will continue to reside in the future.

 

[Loren Pechtel]

 

[bleubird]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTKfCFKSn4c

 

[Loren Pechtel]

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=BTKfCFKSn4c

Why should we waste the bandwidth on anything from Alex Jones?

 

[lpetrich]

Seems to me that this election is going the way of the 1972 election, but with the Republican Party acting much like the Democratic Party of back then.

Back then, the Democratic Party was split between organized labor and the New Left. The New Left regarded organized labor as stodgy and provincial; organized-labor leaders responded with similar low opinions. AFL-CIO leader George Meany said about the New York delegation that "They've got six open fags and only three AFL-CIO people on that delegation!" Another one stated about the Democratic convention that "There is too much hair and not enough cigars at this convention." Despite candidate George McGovern's good record on labor issues, the organized-labor lobby did not support him very much.

Likewise, the Democratic Vice-Presidential candidate, Thomas Eagleton, hid the fact that he once had psychiatric treatment, electroshock for depression. When it turned up, he resigned.

Republican candidate Richard Nixon won with a huge margin, getting all the states' electoral votes except for Massachusetts and the pseudo-state of Washington, DC.

Why Screwing Unions Screws the Entire Middle Class | Mother Jones

By the end of the '60s, the feeling was entirely mutual. New Left activists derided union bosses as just another tired bunch of white, establishment Cold War fossils, and as a result, the rupture of the Democratic Party that started in Chicago in 1968 became irrevocable in Miami Beach four years later. Labor leaders assumed that the hippies, who had been no match for either Richard Daley's cops or establishment control of the nominating rules, posed no real threat to their continued dominance of the party machinery. But precisely because it seemed impossible that this motley collection of shaggy kids, newly assertive women, and goo-goo academics could ever figure out how to wield real political power, the bosses simply weren't ready when it turned out they had miscalculated badly. Thus George Meany's surprise when he got his first look at the New York delegation at the 1972 Democratic convention. "What kind of delegation is this?" he sneered. "They've got six open fags and only three AFL-CIO people on that delegation!"

 

[GenesisNemesis]

I have a feeling they'll try to go back to old ways after this and forget Trump ever happened.

 

[Harry Bosch]

I have a feeling they'll try to go back to old ways after this and forget Trump ever happened.

I think that everyone is assuming that Trump will lose. Republicans have a tendency to come together and close ranks. I'm still worried that the left will splinter and flake out just as the voting begins. The republicans end goal is to pack the supreme court with right wingers. That isn't as important on the left.

 

[GenesisNemesis]

I have a feeling they'll try to go back to old ways after this and forget Trump ever happened.

I think that everyone is assuming that Trump will lose. Republicans have a tendency to come together and close ranks. I'm still worried that the left will splinter and flake out just as the voting begins. The republicans end goal is to pack the supreme court with right wingers. That isn't as important on the left.

I only have a hunch. Not claiming knowledge.

 

[Cheerful Charlie]

I suspect that the Rockerfeller Republicans and national Review types will lose big. Moderates are no longer going to have much power. The GOP has real supporters in the red states and that will be who the GOP will aim at. Paleo-conservatives, Evangelicals, angry older white men, tea party fanatics. A hardening of ideology. No more Boehners, no more Bushes. The fact that the GOP controls the House and to date, the Senate, will embolden them. Trump will be dismissed as an unfortunate fluke. The problem is, the GOP has no real standard bearer, no Reaganish personality the GOP can follow.

Trump was as close as they have gotten to that in this election cycle. There will be a big opportunity for the person who can be seen as taking on that role.

 

[Harry Bosch]

I think that everyone is assuming that Trump will lose. Republicans have a tendency to come together and close ranks. I'm still worried that the left will splinter and flake out just as the voting begins. The republicans end goal is to pack the supreme court with right wingers. That isn't as important on the left.

I only have a hunch. Not claiming knowledge.

I wasn't attacking your post, more raising concerns that the election will be far closer than projected. My fear is that people on the left will think that the race is over and will either stay home or vote third party.

 

[Artemus]

I have a feeling they'll try to go back to old ways after this and forget Trump ever happened.

Trump is trying to start an internal war in the party today over the loss of endorsements. link I'm starting to think that the party cannot escape this without serious upheaval.