GOP Reboot of Crash & Burn?

[calamity]

For Crash and Burn, see Arizona.

The Trump era did more damage to the Republican Party in Arizona than almost anywhere else. Over the past two years, Republicans lost both Senate seats. In November, the state flipped Democratic in a presidential race for the first time since 1996. The GOP state party chair is currently at war with the governor.

But, instead of rebooting after the devastating defeats, they are doubling down on the stupid.

President Donald Trump’s fingerprints are on all of it, yet the state party will likely pass a resolution next week to officially “support & thank” the president. It’ll also vote on measures to censor three prominent Republicans who were deemed insufficiently beholden to Trump: Gov. Doug Ducey, former Sen. Jeff Flake and Cindy McCain, the wife of the late senator.

Holy crap!

Trump blows up the Arizona GOP on his way out

“The craziness from the state Republican Party … it’s pretty embarrassing,” said a former top Republican official.

www.politico.com

For the need to transition, see this piece.

Republicans Wonder How, And If, They Can Pull The Party Back Together

President Trump leaves fault lines in the GOP after the Capitol insurrection and his second impeachment, on top of the party having lost the White House, House and Senate on his watch.

www.npr.org

Pushing away those who are supremely loyal to Trump would seem to be out of the question, since they represent such a big chunk of the party's base. But Reed thinks the party can address their concerns and convince them that in a democracy, it's possible for the Republican Party to lose a legitimate election.
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Regardless of how, or whether, the Republican Party resolves its internal splits, the process will take time, says Frank Luntz: "You have a segment of American society that does not accept the election outcome and is going to continue to speak up, is going to continue to agitate. And that's going to make this a very unstable period for months and perhaps even years."

And, the reboot? Well, winning one like the "Gipper" would seem the logical direction.

Opinion | A Reaganesque Scheme for a GOP Reboot

If the party is going to survive Trump, it needs to cut the extremists loose and craft a broader message. Here's how that succeeded before.

www.politico.com

To explain how the party can move forward, we have to back up and understand how Republicans got here, how the party of Lincoln has come to rely more on nationalistic and racist sloganeering to unify its members than on the limited government, free-market principles many Republicans have long believed are the party’s core ideals.

Can they go Reaganesque? Time will tell.

However, I believe the "RINO" purge of the last decade and a half will make reboot impossible. Many of us Never Trumpers will never return to a party of crazy people. We have become "Never Republicans."

IMO, the Trumpers are the real RINO. But, it's their Party now. If they leave, then maybe the Party can be home for the sane again. However, I don't see that happening anytime soon, if at all. The crazy runs too deep.

 

[ElChupacabra]

Can they go Reaganesque? Time will tell.

They need to do something because the current strategy isn't working. While one can argue that the current president received 74 million votes, it shows what the cap is on that type of candidate. Why? Because a polarizing figure like him helped energize the opposition base and fostered all sorts of voting campaigns to target otherwise disinterested voters. Polarizing leaders tend to inspire people to vote against them as well.

I suspect the GOP establishment is probably trying to figure out how to change strategies, because there are some wins from this previous election to consider; namely the inroads made in the black and Latino communities. The changing demographics in this country are hard to ignore, and the GOP needs to do a better job at communicating their message to those communities while not losing their base. If not, the only methods left to them are those that go against the spirit of elections; and that's a strategy that will fail in the long run. To put it simply, they just need to sell their ideas to others outside of their immediate circle if they plan on winning in a contest of ideas.

 

[Mycroft]

For Crash and Burn, see Arizona.

But, instead of rebooting after the devastating defeats, they are doubling down on the stupid.

Holy crap!

Trump blows up the Arizona GOP on his way out

“The craziness from the state Republican Party … it’s pretty embarrassing,” said a former top Republican official.

www.politico.com

For the need to transition, see this piece.

Republicans Wonder How, And If, They Can Pull The Party Back Together

President Trump leaves fault lines in the GOP after the Capitol insurrection and his second impeachment, on top of the party having lost the White House, House and Senate on his watch.

www.npr.org

And, the reboot? Well, winning one like the "Gipper" would seem the logical direction.

Opinion | A Reaganesque Scheme for a GOP Reboot

If the party is going to survive Trump, it needs to cut the extremists loose and craft a broader message. Here's how that succeeded before.

www.politico.com

Can they go Reaganesque? Time will tell.

However, I believe the "RINO" purge of the last decade and a half will make reboot impossible. Many of us Never Trumpers will never return to a party of crazy people. We have become "Never Republicans."

IMO, the Trumpers are the real RINO. But, it's their Party now. If they leave, then maybe the Party can be home for the sane again. However, I don't see that happening anytime soon, if at all. The crazy runs too deep.

You don't seem to understand. Whatever happens to the GOP is not because of Trump. It's because of the GOP rank and file, their being sick and tired of the GOP Elites running roughshod over them and the GOP Elites still trying to lie to their voters...which is what got Trump elected in the first place.

And you can be sure that the "crash and burn" the GOP Elites are experiencing right now is not over. Not by a long shot. You'll see a big effect of this situation come 2022 when a slew of GOP Elites get primaried. Their easy reelections are over. And they brought it on themselves.

And you...as a NeverTrumper...you have a choice: Try to hang on to the GOP Elites, who have never given a rat's ass about you except as a vote to be manipulated or join your fellow rank and file and get rid of those Elites.

Good luck. You are in for a wild time.

 

[calamity]

You don't seem to understand. ..

I understand fine. Speak for yourself.

 

[Cardinal]

It's too early to say, but it doesn't seem like the Republican party is going to do an autopsy. You can't have an autopsy if you refuse to believe you have a dead body. To be more direct, you can't explore how to make your party more electable if you refuse to acknowledge that you lost the last election.

But we'll see.

 

[Mycroft]

I understand fine. Speak for yourself.

I'm not a Republican. I don't have your problem.

 

[calamity]

I'm not a Republican. I don't have your problem.

I don't care.