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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsAre republicans standing down on Trump because his extreme presidency
will make Marco Rubio, or whoever is else is on the GOP slate, look like more reasonable people or moderates in 2020? That Trump expands Presidential norms by destroying them, rebranding old time conservatives in the process?
LonePirate
(13,424 posts)applegrove
(118,685 posts)Glamrock
(11,802 posts)They're standing down because they're afraid of the Frankenstein monster that is their base. They've gerrymandered districts in order to win more easily but in doing so, cut their own throats. These districts are so pure, they will be primaried out of office if they go against Comrade Combover....
applegrove
(118,685 posts)KY_EnviroGuy
(14,492 posts)so they can do as much destruction to our Federal Government as possible before the whole damn thing blows up....
GOTV!...............
applegrove
(118,685 posts)Freelancer
(2,107 posts)If they keep going, they're out. If they go back, they're out.
-- That's paraphrasing something Chris Hayes said on "Real Time" tonight. I liked it.
dawg day
(7,947 posts)They aren't sure.
Half their potential voters are drooling Trump lovers.
enough
(13,259 posts)Cut taxes on the rich, undo regulations of all kinds, weaken Medicare and Social Security, ramp up military spending, pillage public lands, etc. etc.
Why in the world would they fight him?
Achilleaze
(15,543 posts)The republicans are afraid to take stands for honesty, honor, and American democracy. This is their Most Craven Hour.