Is it too early to talk about the effect on future elections of Trump’s endorsement being negative? R candidates in purple states starting to jump ship soon?
It something that’s been noted since his first term.
He tends to suck away the oxygen from the rest of the party. Republicans in primaries that he’s endorsed have lost. Then he switches endorsements to whomever won, and that candidate barely wins in a district that should have been an easy R win. Also, several state level GOP organizations are struggling for funds and are on the verge of bankruptcy. All the donor money is going to the Trump organization specifically, and he doesn’t share. That’s as close to literally sucking the oxygen away as you can get in politics.
In a very real way, the GOP is no longer a functioning party at all. The mechanisms of mutual support are not there, and that’s the nuts and bolts of what a political party in a democracy does. To succeed at the federal level, they must build the state level. They aren’t. They can’t, because they gave too much power to a self-absorbed idiot. Sauron put too much power in the One Ring, and now it’s a vulnerability.
It’s not just that they are undermining democracy. They have no way of functioning in a democracy.
It’s quite clear that they only way the GOP wins the midterms is cheating. They know it, we know it. For it to be anything else, Trump would have to behave like someone other than Trump.
Is it too early to talk about the effect on future elections of Trump’s endorsement being negative? R candidates in purple states starting to jump ship soon?
It something that’s been noted since his first term.
He tends to suck away the oxygen from the rest of the party. Republicans in primaries that he’s endorsed have lost. Then he switches endorsements to whomever won, and that candidate barely wins in a district that should have been an easy R win. Also, several state level GOP organizations are struggling for funds and are on the verge of bankruptcy. All the donor money is going to the Trump organization specifically, and he doesn’t share. That’s as close to literally sucking the oxygen away as you can get in politics.
In a very real way, the GOP is no longer a functioning party at all. The mechanisms of mutual support are not there, and that’s the nuts and bolts of what a political party in a democracy does. To succeed at the federal level, they must build the state level. They aren’t. They can’t, because they gave too much power to a self-absorbed idiot. Sauron put too much power in the One Ring, and now it’s a vulnerability.
It’s not just that they are undermining democracy. They have no way of functioning in a democracy.
It’s quite clear that they only way the GOP wins the midterms is cheating. They know it, we know it. For it to be anything else, Trump would have to behave like someone other than Trump.