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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region Forums'Burned to the ground': Anti-Trump Republicans set new goal of defeating the GOP Senate
WASHINGTON -- A loose association of current and former Republicans working to sink President Donald Trumps re-election now see another political feat thats necessary for them to have a shot at reclaiming their party: flipping the U.S. Senate to the Democrats.
The emerging belief, based on more than a dozen interviews, is that defeating Trump alone is insufficient to spur the reckoning required to salvage a party that will almost undoubtedly confront a crossroads if the president loses to Joe Biden this fall. Many argue that GOP senators must pay a steep price for their unabating fealty to Trump, even if it hands Democrats complete control of the federal government.
The analogy would be in the same way that fire purifies the forest, it needs to be burned to the ground and fundamentally repudiated, said Steve Schmidt, a Republican-turned-independent political strategist who now works for The Lincoln Project, one of the most pugnacious of the anti-Trump GOP groups. Every one of them should be voted out of office, with the exception of Mitt Romney.
Not every Republican Trump critic agrees with the unsparing approach, contending that many of the GOP senators most vulnerable in 2020 are the sort of lawmakers who least embody Trumps worldview.
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Laelth
(32,017 posts)-Laelth
The Magistrate
(95,255 posts)Whether they 'embody' it or not is a fool's quibble --- they vote for it, they sustain in power the worst of their colleagues. All are responsible, every single one of these traitorous shit-heels is guilty.
"Every normal man must at times be tempted to hoist the black flag, spit on his hands, and set to cutting throats."
Baked Potato
(7,733 posts)BComplex
(8,064 posts)That needs to be called out for the nonsense it is.
Dark n Stormy Knight
(9,771 posts)is far worse than nonsense.
BComplex
(8,064 posts)Xolodno
(6,401 posts)...along with the current leadership and the nut cases who stop sensible compromise.
Regroup, build on new ideas, drop the polarizing bull shit, etc. and come back after 8 or maybe 12 years. By then the war mongering neo-conservatives like Bolton, radical social conservatives and conspiracy nuts like Gohmert will be a distant memory.
They have to change or risk being marginalized for a long time.