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The problem is, in the states that they control, their voters don't care that Republicans cannot govern effectively. They only care about whatever flavors of Hate they they subscribe to. Whether it is Racial, Gender, Religious, Education, or just the type of car/truck they drive, Republicanism are a giant tent of Hatred, and that is apparently all they need to be, because they can blame all of the other issues on Democrats and be sure that their idiot voters will agree.
What?  This is just the beginning of the clown show!  Hell, the vote for Speaker today is proving it so far. >

The beginning of the end perhaps? >

I love the daydream, but anyone who thinks our future with republicans is going to be satisfying are sadly mistaken. They’re crazy and they’re going to get crazier. Once they can get someone to whip them in line (DeSantis?) it’s going to get ugly. >

Picture a Venn diagram with three circles: the rich, the racists, and the religious. Each with different interests around the outside but lots of similarities in the center. All of them hate the government. The rich thought that they could control the racists and the religious. The racists and the religious have now become increasingly mainstream. The path ahead frightens me. >

How the religious decided to align with the wealthy and racists really tells you a lot about their values. >

A few rounding errors from the Kochs, the Murdochs, the Mercers, the DuPonts, the Waltons, the Saudis, et al will keep the Grand Ol' Party ragin'. >

As someone who turned 13 when the GWB error started, I've longed for this party to die. I'm not sure if it will fully die but it's for sure sicker than it ever has been and that's off-putting to most Americans. That's why the GQP does everything in their power to rig the game in its favor. >

Oh, Robert, so optimistic. Now the Republicans just collapse in on themselves like a dying star, creating the black hole of bald-faced fascism. Look at how many openly call for it now. >

Plenty openly call for it, but far from a majority, and their apparatus of minority rule has been deteriorating for years now. The centrifugal forces of factionalism caused by their conflicting incentive structures are now exceeding the centripetal force of party unity. And that’s just the latest of their problems. >

They are like cockroaches, never really die and always comeback >

Don't call it the end till they are buried and gone. We are playing by horror movies rules. If there's no body, it's still alive. >

Next one going to be even worse! >

The party is not going anywhere. They may never lose control of the House again, and as Red state voter suppression becomes even worse, the Senate and White House will always be within their grasp as well. This little family spat will not get in the way of their missions to spread "Christian" White Supremacy and burn the government to the ground. >


The Republican Party will continue in some form. It takes more than nihilistic mindlessness to destroy a party in a winner-take-all system such as we have in the United States.
But the Republican Party in this third phase no longer has a legitimate role to play in our system of self-government. It is over.