I suspect with Trump’s downfall at the end of 2024, we will see a full schism in the Republican Party.
First, a large many will suddenly have convenient amnesia as they rewrite their personal political history. “I never really knew him or liked him.” “Oh that was always Trump being Trump. I never went along with the stuff he was saying.”
Of that group, most will be the evangelicals and the “self-interested ruthless billionaires, and the dingbats of the Heritage Foundation”. Their religion, the vengeful hateful god, the false idol of the golden calf of greed and power. All of this will still drive and unite this faction.
The other major side of the schism will still be the MAGA of high school or less educated, lower middle class, mostly rural or rust belt, white nationalist, racist, narrow minded haters. I could almost feel sorry for this lot, as they are truly unhappy people, except they take this unhappiness and turn it outwards in never ending complaints and hate. They will search for a Trump replacement-in-kind. This group actually deserves better and many have truly been left behind in today’s America. But the first step always starts with one’s self and admitting the problem.
The evangelicals and the “self-interested ruthless billionaires, and the dingbats of the Heritage Foundation” will reconstitute into the Republican Party.
Of the other half of the schism, a few that claim they are Christian because they go to church only on Easter and Christmas and therefore are holier than Thou, might follow the first group. But the rest will likely form some other party, finding and following a purveyor of a new flavor of Kool-Aid. I liken them to the Southern Democrats and bigots that followed George Wallace into the American Independent Party.
I suspect with Trump’s downfall at the end of 2024, we will see a full schism in the Republican Party.
First, a large many will suddenly have convenient amnesia as they rewrite their personal political history. “I never really knew him or liked him.” “Oh that was always Trump being Trump. I never went along with the stuff he was saying.”
Of that group, most will be the evangelicals and the “self-interested ruthless billionaires, and the dingbats of the Heritage Foundation”. Their religion, the vengeful hateful god, the false idol of the golden calf of greed and power. All of this will still drive and unite this faction.
The other major side of the schism will still be the MAGA of high school or less educated, lower middle class, mostly rural or rust belt, white nationalist, racist, narrow minded haters. I could almost feel sorry for this lot, as they are truly unhappy people, except they take this unhappiness and turn it outwards in never ending complaints and hate. They will search for a Trump replacement-in-kind. This group actually deserves better and many have truly been left behind in today’s America. But the first step always starts with one’s self and admitting the problem.
The evangelicals and the “self-interested ruthless billionaires, and the dingbats of the Heritage Foundation” will reconstitute into the Republican Party.
Of the other half of the schism, a few that claim they are Christian because they go to church only on Easter and Christmas and therefore are holier than Thou, might follow the first group. But the rest will likely form some other party, finding and following a purveyor of a new flavor of Kool-Aid. I liken them to the Southern Democrats and bigots that followed George Wallace into the American Independent Party.